[Coco] NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 and DriveWire

[Lothan]

I completely understand the predicament, but I think I can pretty much sit 
on the sideline and accept the choice of the majority. It seems to me that 
it basically boils down to meeting the needs of those users with the 
physical hardware. I'm limited to using an emulator, but I think that gives 
me greater flexibility because I can use pretty much whichever flavor 
virtual disks Boisy decides to create. As I mentioned in a previous post, I 
basically just download the virtual disk images, mount the disk, and copy 
all the files to the virtual hard drive. It doesn't really matter to me 
whether the disks are 35t, 40t, 80t, 255t, single sided, double sided. As 
long as I can boot the NitrOS-9 boot disk and mount the other disks with 
MESS, I'm happy.

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From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:19 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 and DriveWire

> So, what I've seen as I watched this thread is Boisy says it's just
> too much work maintaining all these disk images (and it is, I have
> seen the mountains of makefiles with my own eyes).  He needs to reduce
> the number of images that he personally has been doing the work of
> maintaining for all of our benefit.
>
> Within 10 posts or some, someone just has to have every single
> variation there is.  Can we reconsider this?  It doesn't solve the
> problem at hand.  It's too much work for one guy to support every
> possible configuration.
>
> I see some possible solutions:
>
> 1.  Additional people skilled with *nix makefiles and OS-9 get
> involved to help maintain all these disks
> 2.  We support only the most common configurations and provide
> instructions on how those with other systems can adapt the images to
> their systems.
> 3.  We leave it to each user to get into the CVS and make their own
> disks (it's really not that hard guys).
>
> Other solutions? Saying "I want this version" doesn't solve the problem at 
> hand.
>
> -Aaron
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, John W. Linville
> <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:31:50PM -0400, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
>>> And how difficult will it be for those with floppies to pull the
>>> individual games out of the emulator "disk?"
>>
>> As with the suggestion about the 80track images for the OS, please
>> preserve the capability to build "hardware compatible" disk images
>> in the build scripts. :-)
>>
>> John
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