[Coco] NitrOS-9 boot configuration tool

Nick Marentes nickma2 at optusnet.com.au
Sat Nov 8 15:39:59 EST 2014


On 9/11/2014 6:29 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> Nick... that's exactly what the NitrOS9 repo does... build bootdisks form Linux or Windows (using MinGW or CYGWin)
> To get it build anything other than what is already offered, you must download and modify the sources in your own local copy of the repo and build it.... but wait... that's a bigger can of works than making a bootdisk in OS9 from preassembled files... a MUCH bigger can of worms... more like a barrel of rattlesnakes!
> In this case you will be ASSEMBLING ALL the files in the repo and need to know what each file is, what it does, what machine/system it's being used own as the repo builds for Coco 1, 2, 2b, Deluxe, & 3,  Dragon64, Dragon Alpha, and Atari, all in L1 & L2 all from one set of sources!
> The makefile alone could scare the hell out of geek with a Masters in Computer Science as it is written in uncommonsensaneese :-P
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> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
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I was thinking that on the PC, the program would have the smarts to ask 
things to give you an itelligent selection such as...

Number of floppies?

(If answer is zero, don't even bother listing any floppy drivers, move 
on to the next)
(otherwise ask for disk density, size etc and offer a list of drivers 
that fit the criteria for the user to select)

I suspect I'm looking at this with rose colored glasses of course. :)

Nick





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