[Coco] l2update and bbs dsk images in nitros9 source tree

[Bill Pierce]

Tormod,
The "Upgrade disks" are most likely there for safekeeping. They are "possibly" the only disks ever preserved of the work being done in the 90s by the "Upgrade Team" before Tandy dropped the Coco and Microware then desolved the team. There are a few features on those disks yet to be implemented in Nitros9 and some that were. There are no sources, only the demo disks and many notes in text files by members of the team, mostly Kevin Darling.

Yes, those disks exist on almost every archive on the net, but as in the past, archives come and go. 


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 9, 2014 6:10 pm
Subject: [Coco] l2update and bbs dsk images in nitros9 source tree


I am cleaning out my TODO list for NitrOS-9 3.3.0 and there are a few
items left. One of them is the presence of disk images under
3rdparty/packages/l2upgrade/ . I believe these are upgrade disks for
OS-9. So why are they in the NitrOS-9 source repo? I suppose they are
safely archived somewhere else for anyone needing them.

Also, under 3rdparty/packages/os9l2bbs/ there is an old os9l2bbs.dsk
image. The build creates its own under
3rdparty/packages/os9l2bbs/6809l2/ Is the prebuilt image something
checked in by mistake, or does it have something that the created
image does not have?

I would be happy to get these blobs out of the source tree.

Tormod

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