[Coco] RiBBS

[Bob Devries]

Ron, there's a Virtual HDD available on the VCC website: 
http://vcc6809.bravehost.com/bin/nitros9.zip

Use the tool from MESS (www.mess.org) called WImgTool.exe to transfer files 
to a floppy image (.dsk file), and then to the HDD image using the usual 
copy command in BASIC or NitrOS-9.

There may be other (better?) ways of doing that, and if so, I'm sure others 
will chip in with their 2c worth. :)

I still have my MM/1, which I got from one of the other Aussie users, and it 
still runs well, excpet for a nagging SCSI lockup at startup which hasn't 
yet been resolved.

--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Bihler" <rbihler at msn.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] RiBBS


> Thanks for the information,
> I was able to find the program files on rtsi.com.
> I have also been able to get vcc up and running with os9l2 and Nitros9. 
> Very nice package.
>
> Now for a few questions,
> 1) How do I set up a virtual HDD in VCC, I have done a floppy and that 
> might have to work.  However RiBBS is very large.
> 2) How can I transfer the files from windows to this virtual HD?
>
> At least this is a starting point. Darn I can see the hand writting on the 
> wall.  How do I break this to the wife that I need another (Old tech) 
> computer? :)
> VCC is very impressive, are there know issues?
>
> Thanks
> Ron Bihler
>
>> I assembled some memory and I/O boards for the MM/1 under contract from
>> its second owner, Blackhawk Enterprises.  This was in the time period of
>> 1995-1999.  '97-2000 I was living in Elkhart, IN. and I got to go to a
>> couple of the ":Last Annual CoCo Fests" in Chicago.  There were problems
>> with the Version 2 I/O board, which means we didn't sell many of those.
>> I put together maybe 6-10 memory boards during that period though.  I
>> still have bare memory boards, I/O boards (there may actually have been
>> a fix for the SCSI problem right at the end there), and parts to build a
>> few more if there was any need.  At one of those CoCo Fests, probably
>> 1999 or 2000, I met David Graham of Blackhawk Enterprises in person for
>> the first time, and I haven't seen or heard from him since.
>>
>> I still have my MM/1, and it works, as of a couple months ago.  I did a
>> little programming on it, mostly modifications of Andrzej Kotanski's
>> JPEG viewer program.  I added Joel Hegberg's clipboard library to it,
>> and wrote a program that would save an image from the clipboard as an
>> IFF.  So you could decode a JPEG, copy it into the clipboard, and then
>> save it as a much faster-loading CLUT IFF file.  I think I lost my
>> source code for the modifications I did to the JPEG viewer, but there
>> wasn't much to that.  I think I recently found my SAVEIFF code.  I had
>> even forgotten that I wrote it until I looked at the source file.  Duh.
>> That's what 10 years will do to you.
>>> Does anyone have RiBBS code, might try to see it again on Emulation?
>>> Most of the information was on Compuserve - how things have changed.
>> Did it ever get posted on ftp.rtsi.com?  That's still around.
>>> Can anyone recall the person involved with the MM1 doing the port -
>>> not sure if it even was finished.  He was located in Canada.
>>> How well does OS9 or Nitro9 what I gather the new update work under
>>> emulation?
>>>
>> 6809 (Nitr)OS-9 works great on a CoCo emulator.
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge, there is no emulator that will run
>> OS-9/68K.  I tried to boot Personal OS-9 for the Atari ST on several
>> different Atari emulators, but no joy.  Even ARANYM, which runs
>> Debian-m68K won't boot it.  Bob Devries (I think) says that Atari OS-9
>> actually makes use of the Atari ROM code, which one would think would
>> insulate it further from the underlying hardware and make it even less
>> machine-dependent.  Maybe I'm just not using the proper ROM images.
>>
>> Somebody has made a CD-i emulator for MS-Windows, but it only runs some
>> of the games (last time I tried it) and is cripple-ware.
>>> Anyway I am a bit older, might be smarter, but have way less time :)
>>>
>> Sounds all too familiar.
>>> Too bad the Hero 2000 was not a 6809 as that would make it more fun :)
>>>
>> The Hero, or the 6809?
>>
>> JCE
>>
>>> Ron Bihler
>>>
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