[Coco] New upload to clubltdstudios.com

Shain Klammer sklammer at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 19:15:05 EDT 2007


For what is worth, there are a few TOS replacement ROMs for the STs,
like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiNT and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmuTOS.

sk

On 21/08/07, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> The problem with the Atari port of OS-9 is that it relies heavily on the
> Atari ROM-based GEMDOS environment, which is different from the Coco OS-9,
> which uses none of the ROM code.
>
> To "separate" the OS-9 part from the GEMDOS part would, I think, be a major
> undertaking.
>
> As far as I know, OS-9/68K was written in C, so reverse engineering it would
> be painful.
>
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> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Ewy" <jcewy at swbell.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] New upload to clubltdstudios.com
>
>
> > Bob Devries wrote:
> >> Hi Guys & Gals
> >>
> >> For anyone who has an Atari ST, I have uploaded the Atari Version of
> >> OS-9/68000 Personal here:
> >>
> >> http://coco.clubltdstudios.com/downunder/OS9-68000/Atari_Personal_OS9.zip
> >>
> >> It includes scanned manuals and disk images.
> >>
> >>
> > Hey, Bob,
> >
> > Any idea if that will run on the ARANYM emulator?  I've always thought
> > that one way to work towards MM/1 (and possibly CD-i) emulation would be
> > to start with an Atari emulator running OS-9, and then begin replacing
> > emulated hardware and device driver modules one piece at a time.  Since
> > ARANYM is running Debian/m68k these days, I would think OS-9 should work.
> >
> > Thanks for uploading!
> >
> > JCE
> >
> >
> >
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