[Coco] Does anyone have a Level3 disk that actually boots?

Bill Nobel b_nobel at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 1 09:37:19 EST 2014


Hey all, does anyone on the list still have a copy of Nitros9 v1.2.2?  I am specifically looking for Boot, OS9P1/P2 & IOMAN binaries for comparison to L3.
I am very close to having L3 under v3.3.0.  Need to tie up a few odd pieces of code in these modules, but need a L2 version of these modules.

Bill Nobel

> On Nov 30, 2014, at 8:33 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 30 November 2014 14:45:16 Nick Marentes did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> Is this really the official OS-9 Level 3?
>> 
>> What justifies it as Level 3?
>> 
>> It's not made or endorsed by MicroWare and it appears to be largely one
>> persons's (Alan DeKok) personal mod of NitrOS-9 to modify Level 2 for
>> better manage memory space to allow a bit more free RAM. No other
>> enhancements at all?
>> 
>> Hardly what I justify as a Level 3 upgrade when there are so many other
>> areas thaqt need upgrade/fixing than this.
>> 
>> Nick
> 
> If we can get it to work, the gain of around 16kilobytes of sysram, would 
> AFAIC make it a level 10.  I am so short of sysram I can't even format a 
> floppy.
> 
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