[Coco] Nitros9 on Keil

[Aaron Wolfe]

this message may be relevant:
http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2008-June/036368.html

the disk images (both .dsk and .os9) that I am familiar with from
working on DriveWire are just blobs of linear sector data.
if you're using an image from the nitros9 nightly builds, those are
the same.. just sector 0-X sequentially in the file.
Robert seems to be saying that the Kiel emulator is able to use
additional control data.  Maybe it needs a different file format?
In MESS, renaming a file from .dsk to .os9 makes OS9 boot fine, so
somehow MESS treats the two differently but I don't know
what that difference is.  FWIW, besides booting MESS seems to be able
to use a disk named .dsk under OS9 just fine.
Maybe Robert can explain?

-Aaron


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 13/09/2010 3:13 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>
>> My emulator works if I rename the file to "something.os9".
>>
>> This causes my emulator to do something different and then OS9 works.
>>
>> I don't know what the difference is, but maybe your emulator needs to
>> be configured/switched/etc in the same way mine does.
>
> Yes, I understand this. I stated that I had tried the same with the Keil
> emulator, without success. You response seemed (to me) to imply that I had
> some sort of control over how "my" emulator handled OS9 disks. AFAIK, the
> emulator makes absolutely no distinction whatsoever. And quite frankly, I'm
> surprised that MESS does as well. If indeed it does, it should be fixed,
> because it's a pretty crappy hack.
>
> FWIW I have since discovered that Mr Keil offers a set of OS9 L1 disks for
> download on his site that do appear to boot. They all have a ".DSK"
> extension.
>
> However, I am interested in building an OS9 system from the 'official' disks
> that I have downloaded. I also need to do this on an emulator that supports
> the IDE interface. Hence my persistence with the Keil emulator.
>
> Feel free to ignore if you find me annoying.
>
> Regards,
>
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