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

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Mon Dec 1 10:34:58 EST 2014


If you just need the binaries, I believe 1.22 (n? Can’t remember) is here on my site:
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html <http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html>
and find the “NITROS9.ZIP” link.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Dec 1, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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/> <http://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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