[Coco] l2update and bbs dsk images in nitros9 source tree

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Sun Feb 9 20:34:08 EST 2014


From what I recall, it is in there (and is part of WindInt, for the most part). I think the bouncing ball demo let you resize the window on the fly. Boisy, I know Kevin Darling had, at one time, mentioned that he was probably the only one out of the Level 2 upgrade project that had all of the source; have you tried seeing if he would be willing to release it now (I believe the repository has just disassemblies like the ones Bill and I worked on, when we "accidentally" got some of the level II upgrade from Frank Hogg when we were working on the 2nd version of the TC-9 drivers).

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On Feb 9, 2014, at 7:14 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> Boisy,
> I've booted the "Br Jeremy" boot disk and played around with it.
> I really like the look of everything. From the notes I read, there were a lot of things being worked on.
> Do you know if the :resizable/movable" window driver is on those disks anywhere? Or was that still in planning and not make it to the disks?
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Feb 9, 2014 7:41 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] l2update and bbs dsk images in nitros9 source tree
> 
> 
> It has always been my intention to fold some of the features of the L2 Upgrade 
> into NitrOS-9. That’s mostly why those disk images exist in the repo.
> 
> On Feb 9, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Tormod,
>> The "Upgrade disks" are most likely there for safekeeping. They are "possibly" 
> the only disks ever preserved of the work being done in the 90s by the "Upgrade 
> Team" before Tandy dropped the Coco and Microware then desolved the team. There 
> are a few features on those disks yet to be implemented in Nitros9 and some that 
> were. There are no sources, only the demo disks and many notes in text files by 
> members of the team, mostly Kevin Darling.
>> 
>> Yes, those disks exist on almost every archive on the net, but as in the past, 
> archives come and go. 
>> 
>> 
>> Bill Pierce
>> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sun, Feb 9, 2014 6:10 pm
>> Subject: [Coco] l2update and bbs dsk images in nitros9 source tree
>> 
>> 
>> I am cleaning out my TODO list for NitrOS-9 3.3.0 and there are a few
>> items left. One of them is the presence of disk images under
>> 3rdparty/packages/l2upgrade/ . I believe these are upgrade disks for
>> OS-9. So why are they in the NitrOS-9 source repo? I suppose they are
>> safely archived somewhere else for anyone needing them.
>> 
>> Also, under 3rdparty/packages/os9l2bbs/ there is an old os9l2bbs.dsk
>> image. The build creates its own under
>> 3rdparty/packages/os9l2bbs/6809l2/ Is the prebuilt image something
>> checked in by mistake, or does it have something that the created
>> image does not have?
>> 
>> I would be happy to get these blobs out of the source tree.
>> 
>> Tormod
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