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

[Stephen Pereira]

Hi Bill,

You *ARE* a saint, I am convinced of it!

Yes, I know that I linked to the entire .zip file, but I tried to say that I tried the plain vanilla CoCo 3 boot disk.  And, yes, your explanation, once again, of why that is not the right thing to do has helped me tremendously.

I tried both of the disks images that you indicated.  The DW disk image failed to boot.  The Becker disk image boots, and ***YES*** the dw server command works right away without all of the hullaballoo that I have been going through.  Just as you indicated that it should.

OK.  I get it now.  I need to use the nos96809l2v030300coco3_becker.dsk.  It would have been nice if that was more obvious from the outset.

However, with your amazing persistence, I have learned a few things during this endeavor.  Thank you so very much for all your attention and assistance.

Now, maybe I can finally go on and try the MShell program that you originally suggested to me.

Thanks a million! 
smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
KB1SXE


> On Oct 10, 2015, at 4:46 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> Stephen, from your link, I have no idea which dsk you tried as that is a zip of several disks. But it sounds like you tried a standard Coco 3 disk which will NOT run dw.
> Yes, DW is invisable (when installed)... but NOT on a normal Coco3 boot (not installed). The drivers must be present. The one for your FPGA has the DW "disk" driver already there, just not the scdwv stuff... The disk drivers (rbdw, dwio) are the root of ALL dw4 operations and so they're not on a 'normal' Coco 3 bootdisk, ONLY on DW bootdisks. The whole problem is that whoever made the FPGA boot disk, eliminated the 'scdwv' driver and it's descriptors... why? I don't know, but it was not a good move. This makes that boot (as far as dw is concerned) just a DW file sharer... not a PC utility, TCP/IP gateway, TelNet server/client, virtual printer, MIDI player, remote terminal, etc. Without the virtual ports (scdwv, scdwp, Nx, P, MIDI, and Zx... it's just a file server system.
> If you're going to try a repo disk, use the proper disk for your purpose:
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> From the posts I'm seeing on the CocoFPGA, I'm not sure whether the FPGA uses the Becker Port, or standard DW4???
> I was under the assumption the FPGA used the Becker port (I thought it was developed for it), but now I'm no longer sure....
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> So for Becker Port (most likely) use:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/files/releases/v3.3.0/disks/nos96809l2v030300coco3_becker.dsk/download
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> or if that doesn't work try the standard DW4 disk, use:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/files/releases/v3.3.0/disks/nos96809l2v030300coco3_dw.dsk/download
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> One of these is the proper disk for a 6809 L2 DW boot on the FPGA. Just stick it in DW slot 0 and type DOS (if you have dw access from DECB)
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> You will NOT have to load the drivers with these disks as they already have them in the boot. Just try the dw cmd without all the merge stuff.
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> Bill Pierce
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