[Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*

[Bill Pierce]

The becker build is actually built into the dw read & write asms now. ALL machines and levels done from one source with the exceptions of the atari and other "non-cocos" I think those are seperate, but I may be wrong and they're there too.

I just don't know if Boisy made the lwtools changes in the dw4 stuff as there were slight differences in the syntax from the old toolshed code. That was the problem up until recently. But a lot of stuff didn't get updated, especialy if it wasn't being built anyway. In looking over a fresh pull, it looks like the current makfiles use "LEVEL" instead of "NITROS9", but not really sure. I'll have to look further

I guess I'm going to have to break down and learn the format for those makefiles. They're very similar to the ones I use in CK's "make" in my OS9 C compiler. Just a lot more options. I would love to see some of those options in the C compiler, it would make compiling large multi-file programs (ie. most of my projects) much easier than the current hoops that have to be jumped through. Though the Krieder make is much more versatile than the MW make.

It's just finding the time between the "massive" project I'm currently working on, the "DW4 Starter Kit" (yes I'm still doing it) and getting all my current boots switched over to the latest repo which actually seems to be running a little smoother... or maybe just my imagination.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 29, 2013 9:45 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 4 - NitrOS-9 Floppy *BOOTSTRAP!*


Yes, its probably all in the makefiles... I am no expert with make or
terribly familiar with how NitrOS9 builds but I think if you figure
out how the becker series are generated that would provide an example,
since these are also just substituting the stock dwio for another
variant.

Due to the large installed base of users with standard DW3 ROMs, I
don't think there will come a time when we can just build the turbo
version.  Already we have "standard" and becker building several disks
in the nightly process.. there are also some other dwio variants
besides "dw4" around that do not get built.  Maybe someone can come up
with a better system so we don't have to generate so many disks, not
sure though since each boot track for each respective IO mechanism is
different.   ?