[Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday, July 26, 2010 06:27:20 am Chad H did opine:

> Sorry, I'm only familiar with RTSI on the web or FTP.  I don't really
> know much about IIRC.  Can the driver/descriptors be extracted somehow
> from Nitro-OS9 to a OS-9 system disk?
> 
> - Chad

The disk images you can download from
<http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/nitros9/index.php?title=Main_Page>
can be written to a real floppy and the coco booted directly from that 
floppy.

Or, you can use drivewire, and will not need floppy disks on the coco, it 
can boot from those images on the pc's hard drive.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On Behalf Of Bob Devries
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:37 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> may I be so bold as to point out that Chad H is using Level ONE of OS9?
> 
> AFAIK, level ONE was HARD CODED for single-sided disks. You needed to
> replace the floppy driver and descriptors with a modified one (available
> on RTSI IIRC) to read/write double-sided disks.
> 
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Chad H
>   To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
>   Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:04 PM
>   Subject: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
> 
> 
>   Ok, I've only slightly tinkered with OS-9 slightly over the years.  I
>   usually only load it because an application or game requires it.  I'm
> trying
>   to learn a bit more about it so I can make better use of it.
> 
>   Here's the issue I'm working on right now: trying to configure it to
> take advantage of the printer and floppy drive setup I have attached. 
> I have a FD-502 with dual 5.25 double-sided 360k drives with a modified
> RS-DOS EPROM
>   that allows the top unit to be drives 0/1 and the bottom 2/3.  How do
> I configure OS-9 to take advantage of the other sides of the drives,
> either as
>   /d2, /d3, etc. or by making /d0 and /d1 double-sided devices.   Also,
> a person on this list was gracious enough to sell me a
> serial-to-parallel converter that allows me to print to a old HP
> DeskJet 540 printer rather well.  I've coded some RS-DOS BASIC programs
> to work properly with it (i.e.
>   setting 1200baud and CRLF) but is there a way to set such parameters
> in OS/9?  If memory serves, the printer is /P device, right?  I've seen
> a couple of OS-9 applications allow the setting of the baud rate inside
> the application setup, but not much other settings.   Only way I could
> get these
>   to printt down a page instead of all text on the first line was to run
> a RS-DOS BASIC initialization program to initialize the printer and
> then go into the OS-9 apps and print.
> 
> 
> 
>    I know there are more advanced things out there now for the CoCo.  I
> find the idea of using SD card for storage fascinating.  However, I got
> into the
>   world of computers and programming on this very CoCo 2 when I was 14
> and I'm
>   trying to remain true to its original character.  Some of what I once
> had learned years ago I've forgotten and I'm slowly trying to relearn
> all I can
>   and then some.
> 
> 
> 
>   P.S. I have the original OS-9 level 1 rev. 1.0.0.  Wish I could find a
> later
>   revision.  I know the DeskMate diskette I have says level 1 rev. 2.0.0
> but I
>   think it's missing a lot of the OS-9 files.
> 
> 
> 
>   Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
> 
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