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

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Mon Dec 1 12:01:20 EST 2014


It is 6309, yes. I may have called it 2.00 or 2.01, but most of the changes were in WindInt/GrfDrv (3d look, etc.) I was going to use 2.x to designate the updated Windint look.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Dec 1, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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