[Coco] NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 and DriveWire

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:51 PM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:40:25PM -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:27 PM, John W. Linville
>
>> > My impression is that keeping the option to do what is being done today
>> > amounts to a copy and forget operation.  If keeping such an option
>> > in the build script is a support burden then either ignore me or
>> > enlighten me -- I can handle some Makefile work if that is a problem.
>>
>> It's possible to copy whats there now and save it, but there are some
>> issues.  NitrOS9 gets new features and bugfixes fairly often and the
>> frozen copies wouldn't benefit from this.  Even some of the software
>> that has been around forever (like the Sierra games) has little bugs
>> and might get fixed someday, so a static copy is less than ideal.
>
> Well, it has been getting more feature since you got here. :-)
>
> I can see where the OS disk images might be getting some churn,
> even enough to require maintenance around building disk images.
> I'm not sure I understand the issue with the games -- even if someone
> shows-up with bug fix, is it really likely to shift enough stuff to
> require jiggering the disk images build scripts?
>
>> I think (I may be speaking out of turn) that if you wanted to take on
>> some of the work in maintaining all these disk images, which mostly
>> means working with makefiles, that it would be welcomed.  I am not
>> very good with makefiles myself and pretty loaded with other CoCo
>> stuff during the free time I get, but I could try to help too.
>
> I use make for all kinds of...stuff.  I'm happy to help and/or advise.
> There used to be a nitros9 mailing list, but (if it remains) I seem
> to no longer be on it -- at least, I'm not seeing the messages.

Not sure about a mailing list, but there is a NitrOS9 forum here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/forums


> If there are problems that are less troublesome to describe than to
> fix oneself, please ask. :-)
>
> John
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