[Coco] NitrOS9 Boot Help

Vincent Tran vincent at webmasterofmydomain.com
Sat Apr 11 10:54:33 EDT 2015


After typing "DOS", the Coco just returns an "OK".

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:

> What happens when you mount the DSK image in Drive 0 and type "DOS" at the
> OK prompt?
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:39:40 -0400
> > From: vincent at webmasterofmydomain.com
> > To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> > Subject: [Coco]  NitrOS9 Boot Help
> >
> > Greetings all -- After trying to Google help on booting NitrOS9 on my
> Coco3
> > and coming up with nothing that has worked for me, I am hoping someone
> can
> > point me in the right direction.  I've been trying to boot NitrOS9 for
> the
> > longest time and can't seem to get it going.
> >
> > My setup:
> > * Coco 3 with serial to USB cable to my PC
> > * HBD-DOS v1.4 DW3 cartridge
> > * Drivewire 3 & 4.  (I've tried both)
> >
> > I mount the NitrOS9 disk image to drive0 in Drivewire and type "DIR" on
> the
> > Coco and all I get is an "OK" back.  When I do a "DIR", I get "DRIVE=0
> > FREE=63"  (blank floppy?).
> >
> > Here are the NitrOS9 files:
> >
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           368,640 nos96309l2v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           368,640
> nos96309l2v030300coco3_40d_1_50hz.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           368,640 nos96309l2v030300coco3_40d_2.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           737,280 nos96309l2v030300coco3_80d.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           737,280
> nos96309l2v030300coco3_80d_50hz.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           631,552 nos96309l2v030300coco3_arduino.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           624,384
> > nos96309l2v030300coco3_arduino_headless.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           631,552 nos96309l2v030300coco3_becker.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           624,384
> > nos96309l2v030300coco3_becker_headless.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM         4,718,592 nos96309l2v030300coco3_cocosdc.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           632,064 nos96309l2v030300coco3_dw.dsk
> > 04/13/2014  03:42 PM           624,384
> > nos96309l2v030300coco3_dw_headless.dsk
> >
> > I've also tried the nos96309l2v030300coco3_cocosdc.dsk with the CocoSDC
> and
> > all I get when EXEC is a scrambled screen.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> >
> > -Vincent
> >
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