[Coco] OS9/68K on Atari SatanDisk

[Joel Ewy]

On 08/04/2013 11:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 05 August 2013 00:22:33 Joel Ewy did opine:
>
>> 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.
>>
> Google for "UAE", Universal Amiga Emulator.  It runs on a linux box, with
> some glitches in the mouse translation.

Hey Gene,

I have an "Amiga Forever" CD from about 1999 that has all the officially 
licensed versions of AmigaOS up to that time, and all kinds of versions 
of UAE, so I'm well aware of its existence.  I think I've heard rumors 
of an OS-9 port to the Amiga, but have never seen a copy of it, or even 
heard of anyone who has run it, so it probably won't do me too much good 
in the quest to run real OS-9/68K under emulation.

I have an A1000 and a couple A500s, one of which has a SCSI interface, 
but it is competing with my MM/1 in consuming hard drives.  I have to 
keep scavenging them from my piles of old Macs. {Sigh.}

JCE

>> 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>
>>> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> 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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> Cheers, Gene