[Coco] OS9/68K on Atari SatanDisk

[Joel Ewy]

On 07/01/2013 11:54 PM, Bob Devries wrote:
> There is(was) an Amiga port by an Australian called Digby Tarvin. It 
> was seriously expensive, and had a number of limitations, one of which 
> was no support for a hard disk drive, and no graphics support (fairly 
> usual for early OS9/68000 ports).
>
> I now have OS9/68000 booting from the SatanDisk. All I had to do was 
> change the DMA port number in the BOOTOSK.PRG config page to 2 
> (default was 0).
>
> BEWDY!!!
>

Hey Bob,

I was late to this conversation, but it reminds me that to this day I am 
unaware of any OS-9/68K implementation that runs in emulation on a 
modern PC, with the exception of some fairly limited CD-i emulators.  
Much as I like keeping the real hardware running, I do see an important 
role for emulation in the preservation of old computers, and this seems 
like a pretty big gap.  Some day I'll run out of SCSI hard drives to 
keep feeding my MM/1.

I did once try running the Atari OS-9 disk images on a number of Atari 
emulators with little success.  I'm not sure what it needs that it's not 
getting in the emulators.  This has been 2 or 3 years back, so maybe the 
emulation has improved, or maybe there's an emulator I'm not aware of 
that does work.

I recently came across a disk image that purports to be OS-9 for a 
Japanese computer called the X68000 (if I've got that right).  There are 
emulators available for it, but I have yet to get around to installing 
one and checking it out, but there might be some promise there.

Are you aware of anything I've missed?

JCE

> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <iggybeans at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:36 AM
> Subject: [Coco] OS9/68K on Atari SatanDisk
>
>
>> Very cool.
>> I've been wanting to put together a 68K system since I worked for Ed 
>> Gressick (back then Ed didn't pay me enough to afford one of our own 
>> products).
>> An Atari ST doesn't have the 68020 our System V did, but it would do 
>> nicely.
>> You know what would be even better?
>> If we could hack this to run on an Amiga.
>>
>> BTW - I offered the Teac floppy to Steve (at what I thought was a 
>> good price for a 360K hh drive).
>> If he doesn't want it I'll re-post.
>>
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