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

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Mon Dec 1 10:11:30 EST 2014


On Monday 01 December 2014 09:37:19 Bill Nobel did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett

I have a Nitro122f tree on my old maxtor that I dsaved to a maxtor dir on 
the Seagate when I switched because the maxtor was suffering from 
stiction.

Inside that tree is a bootmods directory and inside that is a KERNEL 
directory that contains these boottrack modules.

 Directory of kernel  2014/12/01 10:30 
rel.32.121      rel.40.121      rel.80.121      boot.burke.121  
boot.elim.122 
boot.rampak.121 boot.rs2disto.121               boot.tandy.121  os9p1.122f 
read.me         boottrack.tandy 

I have forgotten how to make an archive that I can then copy to a 
drivewire disk, extract it from there and send it along.

So, how do I make an archive package that you can unpack, and I can email 
you or put on my web page out of that?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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