[Coco] Does anyone have a Level3 disk that actually boots?

[Bill Pierce]

Aaron, I've yet to try any experiments, but I was thinking of trying to put the dw sub in the system area, then rbdw in RBF, and scdwn in SCF. But until Bill Nobel gets the code up to 3.3.0 standards (if he can), I doubt it will work at all since the Level 3 code is based on Nitros9 1.2.1 or 1.2.2.
A while back, I tried dw4 installed in a very early nitros9 release (pre 2.0.0 I think) as well as vanilla OS9 and neither would boot. It's probably a small problem with a call to something that has been added or moved since then and could probably be fixed to work on vanilla. One of the few "system" modules I've seen that will work on all versions of OS9/NitrOS9 is EmuDsk, so I know it can be done.
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Nov 29, 2014 1:59 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone have a Level3 disk that actually boots?


On Nov 28, 2014 10:22 AM, "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> So far, there is one MAJOR disadvantage to Level 3..... The drivewire4
drivers will not function. The reason being the drivewire sits on the
"line" as it is an RBF driver with SCF functions. and cannot be seperated.
> <y question is.. could create another RBF module, renamed to "DW4" or
something (same for SCF), then move ALL the dw drivers out to another
space. How much is DW tied to RBF? I know it's tied heavily to SCF.

The SCF, RBF, and clock functionality of Drivewire is already split into
separate modules that do not communicate with each other.  However, all
three of these share a dependency on the common "DW sub" module that
provides the low level serial communication.  This common module will need
to be available to both the rbf and SCF address space (and the clock if
that's made into a separate area).  So long as that is done, there should
not be a problem.

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