[Coco] NitrOS-9 L2 on coco3 128k, with CocoSDC

[Nick Marentes]

May need to turn off the white noise generators Bill. He said "Noob 
questions, sorry....no experience with OS9."

That's what I heard anyway.   :)

Nick



On 22/02/2015 4:01 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> Are you actually using DW? If so, the serial port is already in use by DW and DW4 already has terminal support bui8lt in, just type:
> shell i=/z1 (no baud setting or anything, leave at default)
> and a terminal window will open on your PC.
> This is assuming the "rbdw", "dwio" &"scdwv" drivers plus "/z1" (/z2-/z7 opt) descriptors are in your boot.
>  From there, you can do most things you normally do from the cmd line EXCEPT any program/module requiring graphics.
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> I don't remember the command for using T1.. it's been a long time since I needed to do that :-)
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> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
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> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 9:55 PM, embsys dev <embsysdev at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Noob questions, sorry....no experience with OS9.
>>
>> I found a DSK for NitrOS-9 L2 with CocoSDC support, copied it to SD card,
>> and I can boot it, but it comes up in 80 columns, which is unreadable on
>> composite output.  I've googled quite a bit about how to set 40 or 32
>> columns, and it looks like there's multiple ways, but you've got to have a
>> usable OS9 system to do it.  Can't read the screen, so stuck.
>>
>> Initially I was able to blindly type in the command to set the W1 window -
>> once- , but can't seem to repeat this.  Seems like some setting on disk got
>> changed that makes it fail. Can't read the error, sorry.  I'll try
>> recopying the .DSK to SD Card.
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>> Additionally, I would like to redirect the OS9 shell to a terminal prog
>> running on the PC.  Neither "shell = -1/t1&"  nor "shell <>>>/t1 &"
>>   works.  Tried 9600, 38400, 57600, and 115200, no joy.   I'm guessing maybe
>> DW support in CocoSDC firmware makes the serial port invisible to OS9?
>>
>> 1. How do I modify the OS9 DSK to boot to 40 column white on black? It
>> would be awesome if somebody could give me a modified DSK.
>> 2. How to redirect os9 shell to serial?
>> 3. is there a step-by-step how-to on building OS9 DSK images on the PC?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Darryl
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