[Coco] How to import source code into NitrOS-9?

[Stephen Pereira]

Hello, Tim, Dave, Robert,

Thanks very much for your responses.  They are greatly appreciated.

I am a newbie to NitrOS-9, and I have only used Drivewire as a place to plug in .dsk images on my physical CoCo 3 system with HDBDOS.  With that previous system, the 80 column NitrOS-9 screen was so bad I could not do more than play around a little bit, so I never really got into it.

It appears that I have a lot to learn on the Drivewire side, but that I can use some tools to assemble working disks.  That sounds great.  Thanks very much.  I’ll probably be back with more questions once I dive into it.

smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
KB1SXE


> On Oct 3, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am having a blast experimenting with my CoCo3FPGA.  Since I now have a beautiful VGA display that displays 80 character lines clearly, I have been able to renew my experiments with NitrOS-9.
> 
> I can boot and run NitrOS-9.  I have installed BASIC09.  I have tried a variety of applications for OS-9, but most (if not all) do not seem to work.  I am chalking this up to CoCo3FPGA running Drivewire, and the applications seem to really want real disk drives.
> 
> I have been able to type in a small variety of my programs in BASIC and get them to run under BASIC09.
> 
> But…  What if I have a significant size source code file in assembler or BASIC?  I do not want to type it all in again!
> 
> For example, I have the Talbot Microsystems source code for Color Forth.  I typed this all in by hand, and I worked with it in Robert Gault’s EDTASM6309, under DECB.  What if I want to get this large source code file into NitrOS-9?
> 
> On other vintage computer systems I have, I can use Kermit, or a home-grown program called PCGET, to transfer files from my external laptop PC that I am using as a terminal.  What tool(s) does one use to perform this same operation under NitrOS-9?
> 
> My primary goal would be to move large source code files (ASCII files) into NitrOS-9, so I can then use the assembler, or use them in BASIC09.
> 
> Thanks for listening and letting me know what you do.
> 
> smp
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> Stephen M. Pereira
> Bedford, NH  03110
> KB1SXE
> 
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