[Coco] NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 and DriveWire

Lothan lothan at newsguy.com
Tue Mar 30 09:34:25 EDT 2010


This makes sense to me. Most of the time I just grab the latest release 
images, rebuild a bootable floppy with the VHD driver/descriptor, and copy 
the files to a virtual hard drive.

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From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:01 AM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 and DriveWire

> Boisy,
>
> This may be what was intended, but if not would be a compromise.
>
> Remove the 80 track disks from the download-able zip files but keep the 
> option for creating 80 track disks in the script files. That way, all 
> users would start with 40 track disks and not be dependent on having a 
> 3.5" drive on the Coco system. However, any user could generate an 80 
> track master disk either on a real Coco with 3.5" drive or an emulator 
> system using the script files and 80 track descriptors.
>
> The extra step of creating the 80 track disks by the user rather than 
> having them in the zip files does not seem excessive.
>
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