[Coco] free working Drive Pak to one OS-9 developer

[Roger Taylor]

Is there an OS-9 programmer among us (sure there is) that has the 
time to accept a free 2GB MicroSD Drive Pak in exchange for finishing 
the NitrOS-9 image(s)?

I already have a bootable copy of NitrOS-9 on my MicroSD card.  It's 
on a 720k "floppy" in the "OS9" partition.  My card will be cloned 
for your pak.  The CoCoNet EPROM is also in the pak, meaning you can 
move stuff between your CoCo and PC using a bitbanger cable, Deluxe 
Wireless Pak, real disks, and Drive Pak disks.

I'd like to have a copy of NitrOS-9 that boots without having to 
mount a Drive Pak floppy and typing DOS.  It needs to be on a "mass 
drive" which can be just a partition on the pak of any size.  The 
partition creator program is on the pak on DRIVE 0 in the "SYS" 
partition, but two OS-9 partitions have already been created on my 
card: OS9HD1 and OS9HD2 which are 30mb each.

If we can get this far, more OS-9 programs can be ported onto the 
mass drive over time.

To make life MUCH easier, a copy of the Rainbow IDE will be given and 
the CoCoNet project which builds the 16k CoCo ROM and the OS-9 
drivers at the same time (gotta love Rainbow).  The built files end 
up on a virtual .dsk file which can be accessed from the CoCo using 
the methods I mentioned above.

The CoCoNet server software requires Visual Studio .NET 2008 or 
greater, which you'd have to own already.

Again, this is an offer to someone who knows how to build bootable 
OS-9 images and create drivers and descriptors.  Heck, you might even 
be able to just take my drivers and patch them into an existing .vhd 
or something and place it on the pak or onto the MicroSD card using 
an imaging tool... maybe find the partition start and just copy the data there.

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~ Roger Taylor