[Coco] Does anyone know how to start OS9 Sierra games?

[Louis Ciotti]

>From searching the web, I thought it was DOS253, but that does not work on my end.  I downloaded the images from sourceforge, and it booted fine with the dsk images in the virtual floppy drives.
 
Now Since I have never used OS-9 or NitrOS9, I have to start doing some reading. 
 
Where can I get disk images.
 
Also I assume there is some DOS software that will allow me to copy the dsk images to real floppies.  Would be nice to fire up NITROS9 on my coco2



> From: steve at batsonphotography.com
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:33:34 -0800
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone know how to start OS9 Sierra games?
> 
> Stephen,
> 
> I got the NitrOS-9 VHD installed in my emulator, but not sure how to access it. I'm assuming a need some sort of boot or startup floppy disk image for that. Any idea where to find that?
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I found the VCC pages:
> > 
> > http://www.coco4.com/vcc/index.shtml
> > 
> > The NitrOS-9 VHD is on the download page.
> > 
> > The references to the old pages should be updated.
> > 
> > SHF
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Batson" <steve at batsonphotography.com>
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone know how to start OS9 Sierra games?
> > 
> > 
> >> Speaking of VCC and OS9, is there someplace I can find images that have OS9
> >> Level 2 or Nitros09 all setup and ready to go in a format I can just plug
> >> into VCC?
> >> Since I've never really used either other than to start game or program in
> >> the past, should I just go for Nitros09?
> > 
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