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

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

Repeating what I said at the bottom, both top and bottom posting at the same
time sometimes does not work.

The supplied VHD for VCC works just fine, but you need to read the
instructions, perhaps read what I was told when I had problems following
instructions.

> In VCC, you need to configure for using RGB DOS. Pull down the Cartridge
> menu, and select FD502 Config, and click the button beside RGBDOS.
>
> This will allow you to boot from the HD image with DOS255.
>
> HTH,
> Regards, Bob Devries

If you still have problems, I tested starting NitrOS-9 on my running copy of
VCC just fine.

Perhaps you should download this also:

http://aaronwolfe.com/robert.gault/Coco/Downloads/RGBDOS.zip

from http://aaronwolfe.com/robert.gault/Coco/CoCo_main.htm

SHF

More permanent copy of these instructions:

http://tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=603&sid=5a626477bc7124ba59f206d2c23e16d3#p603


If you just wish to run games, that is all you need to do.

If you want to program in "C", I have created a set of shellplus 2.1 scripts 
to make the experience more pleasant.

I do not like many things in that VHD and NitrOS-9 in general that are very 
poor choices IMHO.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Batson" <steve at batsonphotography.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 5:33 PM
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?