[Coco] Trying to build new images

Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 22:23:56 EST 2017


> That's the whole purpose of this exercise.  I have a Tc3, SUperIDE and
> 3 Glenside boards. I have two working COCO2's, hope to have a couple of
> COCO3's back if they can be repaired and on COCO1 that didn't come on
> when I dug it out (it is on the bottom of my list of priorities). I hope
> to have a couple of systems to play with, all with big disks as I have
> some ideas I want to work on for fun.  Like Unix on the 6809. And maybe
> even Xinu. :-)

Try FUZIX!  Its a V7 unix that runs on oodles of machines, including coco2
w/ a ROM or Tormods nifty 512k banker, and a 512k+ coco3.  It feels like
circa 1993 linux.

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

> Drivewire is nice, but it has its share of warts, too.  Especially
> on the PC end.  And I haven't been able to get the Linux version to
> run at all.  But, one step at a time.  I have even given some thought
> to looking into Drivewire clients for other systems like the original
> TRS-80's and PDP-11's.  After all, this is just a hobby for me
> anymore.
>

There's now (and soon to be more) several lightweight dw servers available
for linux now.  a github search reveals 3 or so.  Some in python.  William
Astle's lwwire spec offers a lovely simplistic dw server written in C.
Someday I may get lwwire running under fuzix - just for the stupidity of
it! ;)


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