[Coco] NitrOS9 (Disk 2 - Modules)

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Sat Aug 7 08:23:24 EDT 2010


Bob Devries wrote:
> regarding the file "standard.bl" on the Level 1 NitrOS9 distro....
>
> I think you should be able to safely comment out D2 (d2_40d.dd).
>
> Sadly, the NitrOS9 team chose to add DD (to make L1 more like L2??), and
> the Sysgo module expects that a DD device exists :( So no saving there,
> unless you mess with modifying Sysgo.
>
> As you said, there doesn't seem to be much room for making OS9Boot
> smaller. I'm not absolutely sure if L1 allows you to have Sysgo and
> Shell in the CMDS directory or not, the way it does with L2.
>
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>

There's a much more problematic feature of the Level 1 NitrOS-9 :)  All the 
scripts were written for an 80 character screen but Level 1 uses a 32 character 
screen. The result is that it probably is next to impossible to edit any of the 
scripts on a real Coco1 or Coco2.

So anyone who wants to make use of these scripts will need to use a Coco3 
emulator to edit scripts for use on a Coco1.



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