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

Bill Nobel b_nobel at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 1 11:57:01 EST 2014


Was this a 6309 version Curtis?  If so that is exactly what I needed. Now I can use ded in 2 window's switching to match differences. Like we did many years ago to get Nitros9 in the first place.  All the code I had was too early for comparison sake.

Bill Nobel

> On Dec 1, 2014, at 9:34 AM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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