[Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?

[Aaron Wolfe]

Why not just use the Deskmate 3 disk that's built from the latest CVS
every night?  It's all ready to go.

http://www.nitros9.org/latest/

-Aaron

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well the "move programs to NitrOS9" didn't work with DeskMate..haven't had
> time to try with others yet.  DeskMate tries to load under NitrOS9 but exits
> almost immediately saying "NOT ENOUGH MEMORY".  The OS9 on the DeskMate disk
> seems very stripped down. I'm thinking NitrOS9 is loading too many modules.
> I even tried booting from original OS-9 disk and then loading DeskMate, same
> error message.  I've looked at the Cobbler and OS9Gen utilities thinking
> maybe they could help.  The OS9Gen is said to be able to rebuild from
> scratch a bootstrap file with only the modules you specify.  The OS-9 manual
> also says that a certain list of modules are required.  Question is, how do
> I  pick and choose which of those modules I want to use in OS9Gen?  It seems
> to be looking for the original bootstrap file or actual module files (which
> I don't see residing on the disks matching the bootup modules)  Where are
> these bootup modules other than in the original bootstrap file??
>
> I'm starting to miss MSDOS... :/
>
> - Chad
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Chad H
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:46 PM
> To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
>
> That has been my thoughts in the last little while.  I have a good NitrOS9
> (2008 build) that is already setup for the double-sided drives.  I had
> copied the DMODE utilty to a OS9 disk, rebooted from it and tried it.  Yea,
> it let me view and change the tracks/sides...but the FORMAT failed, oh well.
> So yea, I'm in the process now of making a testing copy of the NitrOS9 to
> see if I can't move some of my OS9 programs over to it.  If that works, I
> will just have to get the printer configured then.  Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Bob Devries
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:35 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
>
> Chad,
> since NitrOS9 and Tandy's OS9 are completely functionally identical, why
> would you want to move the drivers/descriptors from one to the other. If you
> have a programme which currently works on Tandy's Level 1, you could more
> easily move the programme files to the NitrOS9 disk, since NitrOS9 should be
> able to read both single and double-sided disks.
>
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Chad H
>  To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
>  Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:09 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
>
>
>  Sorry, I'm only familiar with RTSI on the web or FTP.  I don't really know
>  much about IIRC.  Can the driver/descriptors be extracted somehow from
>  Nitro-OS9 to a OS-9 system disk?
>
>  - Chad
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On
>  Behalf Of Bob Devries
>  Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:37 PM
>  To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>  Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  may I be so bold as to point out that Chad H is using Level ONE of OS9?
>
>  AFAIK, level ONE was HARD CODED for single-sided disks. You needed to
>  replace the floppy driver and descriptors with a modified one (available
> on
>  RTSI IIRC) to read/write double-sided disks.
>
>  Regards, Bob Devries
>  Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Chad H
>    To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
>    Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:04 PM
>    Subject: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
>
>
>    Ok, I've only slightly tinkered with OS-9 slightly over the years.  I
>    usually only load it because an application or game requires it.  I'm
>  trying
>    to learn a bit more about it so I can make better use of it.
>
>    Here's the issue I'm working on right now: trying to configure it to
> take
>    advantage of the printer and floppy drive setup I have attached.  I have
> a
>    FD-502 with dual 5.25 double-sided 360k drives with a modified RS-DOS
>  EPROM
>    that allows the top unit to be drives 0/1 and the bottom 2/3.  How do I
>    configure OS-9 to take advantage of the other sides of the drives,
> either
>  as
>    /d2, /d3, etc. or by making /d0 and /d1 double-sided devices.   Also, a
>    person on this list was gracious enough to sell me a serial-to-parallel
>    converter that allows me to print to a old HP DeskJet 540 printer rather
>    well.  I've coded some RS-DOS BASIC programs to work properly with it
>  (i.e.
>    setting 1200baud and CRLF) but is there a way to set such parameters in
>    OS/9?  If memory serves, the printer is /P device, right?  I've seen a
>    couple of OS-9 applications allow the setting of the baud rate inside
> the
>    application setup, but not much other settings.   Only way I could get
>  these
>    to printt down a page instead of all text on the first line was to run a
>    RS-DOS BASIC initialization program to initialize the printer and then
> go
>    into the OS-9 apps and print.
>
>
>
>     I know there are more advanced things out there now for the CoCo.  I
> find
>    the idea of using SD card for storage fascinating.  However, I got into
>  the
>    world of computers and programming on this very CoCo 2 when I was 14 and
>  I'm
>    trying to remain true to its original character.  Some of what I once
> had
>    learned years ago I've forgotten and I'm slowly trying to relearn all I
>  can
>    and then some.
>
>
>
>    P.S. I have the original OS-9 level 1 rev. 1.0.0.  Wish I could find a
>  later
>    revision.  I know the DeskMate diskette I have says level 1 rev. 2.0.0
> but
>  I
>    think it's missing a lot of the OS-9 files.
>
>
>
>    Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
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