[Coco] SWTPCEmu Disk Images Cataloged

Wayne Campbell asa.rand at gmail.com
Sun Dec 1 20:28:40 EST 2013


I started working with the listing. I decided to begin with SysCall, since
that's what started this. I cataloged everything I found on a new page on
the decode site:

http://cococoding.com/wayne/SysCall_Info.html

There is much duplication, and from what I am seeing, one of the people
responsible for these disks seems to have been working on trying to port L2
to SWTPC.

Wayne



On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 01 December 2013 19:44:38 Joel Ewy did opine:
>
> > On 11/30/2013 09:07 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> > > [trim]
> > >
> > > The real interest on those disks is the original MW sources to the
> > > "standard" os9 lvl 1 commands. They can be assembled using asm in os9
> > > just as they are. The few system sources are useless for the Coco as
> > > they are for the swtpc hardware. There's no Coco os9 system sources
> > > there. It's all definately intersting. Joel is sending me a copy of
> > > the os9 material and I'll be posting it to the archive soon.
> >
> > Well, the source for os9p1 and os9p2 would mostly be pertinent to the
> > CoCo, no?  (At least Level I.)  But it's true that the other stuff isn't
> > CoCo-specific.  And I would have loved to see source for IOMAN and some
> > of the file managers.  But driver code is very instructive, even if it's
> > for different hardware.  There's no reason one couldn't hook a(nother)
> > 6821 or 6850 up to a CoCo.  As a side note, somewhere along the line I
> > got the impression that Level I OS-9 only included os9p1, and that os9p2
> > added support for the DAT, et cetera.  These kernals clearly have an
> > os9p2, but are definitely not Level II.  From looking at the ROM files,
> > I wonder if the kernal wasn't perhaps broken into two sections in order
> > to fit in affordable EPROMs of the day.  (Haven't looked at the size of
> > the binaries.)  I haven't used Level I on the CoCo enough to remember
> > whether it has an os9p2 or not, but I sure thought I had read somewhere
> > that that was only a feature of Level II.  Maybe that was bogus
> > information, or maybe I just made that up.
> >
> > JCE
>
> It, level 1 version 1.00 had an os9p2.
>
> > > Bill Pierce
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> >
> > [trim]
> >
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