[Coco] RS-232 image for VCC

[Kip Koon]

Hi Luis!
I will be using that CF image you made shortly.  Until recently, I have not
ever been able to make my own custom boot disks and never mind about roiling
my own version of the distribution.  I've only been able to assemble small
packages like toolshed , but I've never been able to compile the entire
NitrOS-9 Distribution under CYGWIN, but not for the lack of trying.  
When Gene reminded me he had been working on the NitrOS-9 distribution and
had made great progress fixing many things, I jumped at the chance to get a
copy of it, so I could start customizing my own NitrOS-9 L1 and L2 bootable
disks.  I have finally been successful tonight creating a bootable NitrOS-9
L1 51x24 display 80t DSQD  disk with the 6551 based RS-232 driver and
descriptors in the OS9boot file.  
I'm now waiting for my Coco 3 to finish a similar operation.  ...  I just
checked my Coco 3 and the new NitrOS-9 L2 Coco3 80t DSQD boot disk booted
successfully and now also has the 6551 based RS232 driver and descriptors in
that OS9boot file as well.  Now I can check out my Deluxe RS-232 Pak for
proper operation and figure out where all the RS-232 pins are on 50-contact
card edge connecter of my Ken-ton Dual RS-232 pak and hopefully sort out all
the RS-232 signals and ultimately make my own Dual RS-232 cable for that
50-pin card edge connecter.  I do wish someone would come forward and create
a schematic of the Ken-ton Dual RS-232 cable they are using with their
Ken-ton Dual RS-22 Cartridge Pak, but so far no one has done so.  I would
have that a schematic would have been created by now.  If there is one, I
have not been able to find it.  Perhaps some will step up and make a
schematic available, else I'll have to make my own. 
Anyway, now I'm finally beginning to make some real progress with my Color
Computer Data Center.  I need to update my Cocopedia wiki page with all my
recent activities.  I guess the next step is to determine which controllers
I wish to run on which machine, Coco 1 or Coco 3, and burn all the HDB-DOS
Eproms I'll need.  I'm going to have to order some more Coco 24-pin Eprom
adapters I made recently so I can put 2764 28-pin eprom versions of select
HDB-DOS v1.4 images in them.  Well that's about it for the moment.  Take
care my friend.
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 5:44 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] RS-232 image for VCC

Kip what is you problem with the boot disks ?

I make my very superIDE boot disks from scratch using the NitrOS-9 source
code. I just need to change few makefiles to set the proper hdd
dimensions,etc. Then you can transfer the boot disk to the coco either using
a CF card adpater (and a few tools mine) or using my WIRED or making a
floppy and using real floppies..

I have made even a multi-boot OS9L1V2.00, NitrOS-9L1 Coco2, NitrOS-9L1
Coco2B, NitrOS-9L2 Coco3 and NitrOS-9L2 Coco3 6309. I just choose the boot
in the autoexec.bas.

the Image i provided this week for the glenside IDE has the same os9's.

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill!
> Unfortunately not that I know of.  We have to make one.  I'm trying to 
> get to the stage where I can roll my own NitrOS-9 L2 boot disk for my 
> Coco 3 using modified versions of the mb.* scripts so I can undo the 
> goof I made on the CF card that came with my SuperIDE pak.  I finally 
> was able to successfully run the default version of the mb.floppy 
> script and after following up with DSAVE'ing the rest of the contents 
> of the boot disk in drive /d0 to the newly created boot disk, I ended 
> up with a new standard bootable NitrOS-9 L2 boot disk.  Yea!!!  Now I 
> can start trying to figure out which modules I can fit into a bootable
OS9boot file.
> I say bootable OS9boot file because I have tried to put quite a bit of 
> modules in other OS9boot file tests - actually every different kind of 
> module that existed that I had hardware for and the darn thing did NOT 
> boot, so I have to figure out just how big a bootable OS9boot file can 
> be.  I remember a recent discussion about this very subject.  Remember 
> even though our Coco 3s now have 512KBs, the 6809 mpu still can only 
> address 64KBs at a time.  That is the problem we all have to deal 
> with, I trying to put too big of an OS9boot file into ram,  so when a 
> NitrOS-9 L2 boot file doesn't work, it's just taking up too much ram as
far as I can tell at this point.
> I imagine the first step could be just adding the driver and 
> descriptor modules to support the RS-232 pack only, actually two 
> different kinds of
> RS-232 paks as there are descriptors for two RS-232 paks at two 
> different addresses, and see how that new NitrOS-9 L2 boot disk boots 
> with just those additions.  Once I'm successful with that, then I can 
> try a few more things one step at a time and see how each of those test
boot disks work out.
> Eventually I hope to have tailored NitrOS-9 L2 boot disks for all 
> occasions hopefully.  Well, I have to get ready to go to church and 
> sing our Christmas cantata.  I hope to talk to you later on.  Take care my
friend.
> Kip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gordon
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 9:28 AM
> To: Coco Enthusiasts
> Subject: [Coco] RS-232 image for VCC
>
> With the various images available for VCC, is there not an image for 
> an
> RS-232 Pak?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
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