[Coco] [CoCo] OS-9000 for X86 Version 4.9 working in Ubuntu QEMU

Fri May 19 03:46:33 EDT 2017

The SP used throughout the Lan Comms PAK refers to Stacked Protocol and not Software Pak as I thought previously.  I managed to find the documentation for the Lan Comms Pak. It can be found at archive.org.

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From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Walter Zambotti
Sent: Friday, 19 May 2017 10:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] OS-9000 for X86 Version 4.9 working in Ubuntu QEMU

Mike

I believe you are correct but I didn't bother with those because neither virtualbox or vmware provide emulated adapters for them.  

The PRO 100 is a very old Intel card.

These cards would be useful if you actually have an old pc with those cards in them.  Then you could dd the provided os9000 disk image onto a physical HDD and try booting up on real hardware rather than in a VM.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Mike Delyea
Sent: Friday, 19 May 2017 10:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] OS-9000 for X86 Version 4.9 working in Ubuntu QEMU

Re. network cards.  The Pro100 is a Intel I think and the 8139 and 8900 are Realtek cards

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Walter Zambotti <zambotti at iinet.net.au>
wrote:

> Kip
>
> Good news.
>
> I managed to get it going on virtualbox with :
>
> The 79c961 adzpter module (compatible with the AMD79C970/73 which is 
> provided by virtualbox)
>
> I used bridged networking and configured the vbox Ethernet adapter on 
> the host windows pc to an address in the same subnet as the host and 
> the guest
> OS9 ethernet adapter likewise.
>
> Windows Host (virtual box with bridged adapter) Ethernet (Actual
> adapter) : 10.0.1.66 Ethernet 4 (Virtualbox Host-Only adapater) : 
> 10.0.1.21 (any free address)
>
> OS9000 Guest :
> Sple0 (79c961 adapter) : 10.0.1.20 (any other free address on the host
> network)
>
> I tried NAT in virtualbox but couldn't get it working.
>
> For qemu setup I created a script (OS9000) that starts the emulation 
> under ubuntu. It assumes your network adapter is wlan0 (WIFI) if it is 
> not then open the script and edit the only reference to wlan0 to eth0 
> (which is the most common other type of adapter in linux).
>
> The commands in OS9000 to configure the network are similar to linux. 
> If you need help ask!
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> Walter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Walter 
> Zambotti
> Sent: Friday, 19 May 2017 9:07 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] OS-9000 for X86 Version 4.9 working in 
> Ubuntu QEMU
>
> Kip
>
> More about the networking.   The OS9 image includes several network
> devices and descriptors.  However I found it difficult to identify 
> what they were by just the module names.  The SPNE2000 was one of the 
> more obvious.  SP was on every module so I assume that stood for software pak.
> NE2000 I recognised as a network card supported by QEMU.
>
> The other modules that I found (there might be more)
>
> Pro100
> 21140 (I recognise this one as an old Digital Equipment Corporation 
> ISA
> card)
> 79C961
> 8139
> 8900
> 91C94
> FA311
>
> Even with the correct card support it took me 3 days of messing around 
> to finally get it going.
>
> However I'm going to try getting it going in virtualbox and I'll you know.
>
> Walter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Walter 
> Zambotti
> Sent: Friday, 19 May 2017 7:59 AM
> To: Salvador Garcia via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] OS-9000 for X86 Version 4.9 working in 
> Ubuntu QEMU
>
> Apparently it will run on vmware and virtualbox however getting the 
> network components running my be more difficult.  The emulator must 
> provide a ne2000 PCI based network adapter.  Qemu does I don't know 
> about the others. Good luck.
>
> Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone on the Telstra™ Mobile network
>
> ---- Kip Koon wrote ----
>
> >Hi Walter,
> >This is very interesting.  I will definitely check this out.
> >I wonder if this will run on VMware?
> >
> >
> >Kip Koon
> >computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> >http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/User:Computerdoc
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Walter
> Zambotti
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 3:58 AM
> >To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
> >Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] OS-9000 for X86 Version 4.9 working in 
> >Ubuntu
> QEMU
> >
> >Here are a few screen shots :
> >
> >https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7V4xuLGHAktelpQcmk0ZmtGQWc
> >https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7V4xuLGHAktUWswTS1aa0pWUTg
> >https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7V4xuLGHAktVUd6eHBLV0RSczQ
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Walter
> Zambotti
> >Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2017 3:34 PM
> >To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >Subject: [Coco] [CoCo] OS-9000 for X86 Version 4.9 working in Ubuntu 
> >QEMU
> >
> >I found a copy of OS-9000 for X86 version 4.9 circa 2009 and have 
> >managed
> to get it working on Ubuntu 16.04 in the QEMU hypervisor/virtualizer.
> >
> >I spent a few days getting the network configuration working and it 
> >fires
> up nicely.
> >
> >It comes with the internet communications pak and XBase9 windowing GUI.
> Which looks a lot like Windows XP.
> >
> >The tar.gz is 22Mbytes.
> >
> >If anyone is interested here is the link:
> >
> >https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7V4xuLGHAktVW1VbkNIbXpseWs
> >
> >Enjoy.  For educational and research purposes only!
> >
> >
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