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

Bill Pierce ooogalapasooo at aol.com
Sat Nov 29 11:09:51 EST 2014


Bill IIRC, Alan stated he didn't change RBF or SCF. They were stock
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Nov 29, 2014 10:26 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone have a Level3 disk that actually boots?


Speaking of DW Aaron,  Did you have to do anything for changes in RBF/SCF for 
DW4?  I am asking this as I need to figure out if I have to disassemble those 
modules from L3 or are they stock from Nitros9. So far L3 is based in these 
modules: Nitros9 (splits RBF/SCF) OS9P1 (calls nitros9) and IOMAN (maps and 
calls SCF/RBF).  I think I do have to look at both SCF/RBF to see if Alan did 
any mods in those for the memory mapping but not sure yet.

Bill Nobel

> On Nov 29, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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