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

Bill Nobel b_nobel at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 1 10:27:19 EST 2014


I can take pretty much any archive, but from the Coco sense I would use lha.  I don’t need an actual booting image just the raw binary modules.
Lha command line would be:

lha a archive.lzh boot os9p1 os9p2 ...

Bill Nobel

> On Dec 1, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <http://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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