[Coco] RiBBS, 68K OS-9 in emulation

[Ron Bihler]

I may have missed a word or two (Grin).  Even more to the problem is I have 
been out of this soo long that much of the terminology is greek to me :) 
(ARANYM) (Debian-m68K) etc
I had left before Nitros9 was out (Very nice I must say) and some of the 
other hardware bling bling.  I haven't figured out how to boot directly to 
Nitros9 HD yet thought in VCC.  More reading in order!!!

Anyway after a weekend of digging into Coco History and some of the other 
machine - history - Plus a bunch of good emails I am starting to get back up 
to speed. I see I have more work ahead of me.

Thanks
It's been fun, when is the next Coco fest?  - I don't see that in your 
Email - Big :)
Ron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Ewy" <jcewy at swbell.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] RiBBS, 68K OS-9 in emulation


> Ron Bihler wrote:
>> Thanks,
>> So the bread crumbs continue.
>>
>> Anyone know Charles West in Oklahoma?  I passed the code to him.
>>
>> Was KRiBBS shareware as well?  Is there a MM/1 Emulator since I will
>> never see one of them.
>>
>> Ron
>> ...
>
> Now Ron, if you had read every single word I wrote in one of my previous
> posts, you wouldn't have to ask this question!  :)  I know, I'm way too
> verbose...
>
> "
>
>>>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.
>
> "
>
> So there you have it, FWIW.
>
> Seriously, I would love to see some kind of emulator that can run 
> OS-9/68K.  It really wouldn't have to faithfully emulate the hardware of 
> any particular 68K computer exactly in order to run most OS-9 programs. 
> Somebody might need to develop a few OS-9 driver modules for the emulated 
> hardware.  I think that an Atari emulator like ARANYM would be a very good 
> start.  As I mentioned above, it runs Linux for crying out loud, it 
> shouldn't be too difficult to get OS-9 running on it.  And the Atari 
> version of OS-9 is actually not made of pure unobtanium.  The video modes 
> supported by ARANYM are better than what the MM/1 could do, and I'm sure 
> there are modes that correspond to most of the MM/1 modes commonly used in 
> KWindows.  After OS-9 is running on the emulator in some fashion, bits of 
> the emulation code could be replaced one piece at a time by emulated 
> hardware that looks and works more like the MM/1 (or the MM/1b / AT306) if 
> you wanted an emulation more faithful to the hardwar
> e.  And once you've done that, it wouldn't be hard at all to turn it into 
> a CD-i emulator.  And there would be considerably more interest in that 
> than the MM/1.
>
> I would think that BBS software would be a great candidate for running on 
> an Atari OS-9 emulator, though it sounds from some of the other posts like 
> at least one version of your software was modified to use KWindows, so 
> that might have to wait until somebody ported that to ARANYM or made the 
> ARANYM video code compatible with the 66470 VSC.
>
> I really think that something like ARANYM or MESS would be a good starting 
> point.
>
> JCE
>
>
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