[Coco] Nitros9 & Mess

[Nathan Woods]

Bill Nobel wrote:

>   Well I guess I am your guy.  I ripped OS-9 apart to figure out how 
> it did things initially when the 6309 came around to make it better as 
> you all well know.
>
>  I have the 0.78b source for mess but I don't use GNU for compiling 
> (too much of a pain to get and install).  I have Visual Studio 6 
> Enterprise and have been actually writing a program to import/export 
> files and folders in an explorer style browser for Nitros-9 Virtual 
> disks, but it is yet un-finished.  The code for it is taken directley 
> from Nitros9's RBF & CC3Disk and translated.

Awesome.  I would recommend that you use the MinGW compilers to build.  
There are instructions available for building MESS with this compiler 
(from installing the compilers to compilation) at the following URL:

    http://www.tinyurl.com/3cew7

I do use Visual Studio .NET for debugging, but I do not use the project 
system and you will probably have a difficult time creating one.  There 
is an alternative makefile that builds with Microsoft's compilers, but 
it uses MinGW make.

Also, I do not expect that this problem will require much debugging of 
the MESS application itself, as much as debugging NitrOS-9 (or rather 
MESS's execution thereof.)  As far as I can tell, at some point the RBF 
module seems to go through caching confusion and flushes an invalid 
sector to disk.  The big mystery is why.

I would prefer for this discussion to be continued on the Bugzilla site, 
just to keep everything in one place.

    http://bugzilla.mess.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500