[Coco] /NIL device

[Chester Patterson]

Lo! And where might the uninitiated find such wondrous apparatus?

Chester
Costa Rica
TI2/KJ4HLT

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Nobel [mailto:b_nobel at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:21 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] /NIL device

All three of those are a must for the person that want’s to play with boot files easily. Ya Allan did speed up ded, but kwikzap was faster.

Bill Nobel

> On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:07 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
> And Kwikzap was a nice match. I really like DED, but the direct screen 
> writes in Kwikzap made it quite fast. (DED became much faster after 
> Alan initiated "block writes" between SCF and Grfdrv...)
> 
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yes your right Curtis, I still to this day use kwikgen to make any of my boot files.  It is the fastest and best program for boot files we found at the time.
>> 
>> Bill Nobel
>> 
>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:49 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> As a side note... Bill Nobel and I used this *extensively* in making the original OS-9. It was a utility sold by Wes Gale (and Gale Force Enterprises... the first distributor of NitrOS-9).
>>> Much faster then EZGEN and any of the others we tried.
>>> 
>>> L. Curtis Boyle
>>> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:36 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Kandur,
>>>> 
>>>> I use a programme called Kwikgen to add modules to my OS9Boot file. It is very easy to use, and I used it just a couple of days ago to add nil.dd and vrn.dr to my OS9Boot file.
>>>> 
>>>> If you have it, just start Kwikgen
>>>> Then 'L' to load the boot file, it will ask which drive.
>>>> Then 'I' to insert.
>>>> It will ask where to insert it (after which module in the list).
>>>> then it will ask for the module directory where the modules can be found.
>>>> Do that for both nil.dd and vrn.dr
>>>> Then 'W' to write the os9boot file.
>>>> Answer 'N' to the question about track 34.
>>>> Then 'Q' to quit.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Bob Devries
>>>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>>> 
>>>> On 15/08/2014 12:45 PM, Kandur wrote:
>>>>> What is the easiest way to add the /NIL device, to a running NitrOs-9 L2 session?
>>>>> I found nil.dd in the modules/scf directory, but it is not listed 
>>>>> with mdir, can't redirect to >/nil either. I know, I could make a new bootdisk, but....
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kandur
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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