[Coco] Real floppy + CocoSDC + DW & Nitros9, and other sundry ?s

[David Ladd]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Christopher Fox <cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Bill. Any tips for making floppy + DW + SDC with Nitros9 actually
> work? Which do I boot from, and which build of Nitros9? Once running, what
> device descriptors actually connect to each “disk”?
>

​Christopher, yes you can use real floppy, DW, and SDC with NitrOS-9.  You
just need the drivers loaded for all the devices you want and it should
work without issue.  I have used NitrOS-9 with DW, SDC, and real floppy
without any issues.

As far as HDBDOS goes, you would actually be better off using the SDCDOS
that comes in the SDC.  As it supports DW, SDC, and real floppy all in
one.  I have copied floppies from real floppy to a SDC image and from real
floppy to DW disk image all from SDCDOS.

Drive 2 and 3 in SDCDOS is normally used for the DW connections.

If you have the right pokes in place you can even use drive 2 and 3 as the
back sides of the SDC images that are mounted in SDC drive 0 or SDC drive
1.​



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> Christopher
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> On 20160123, 11:06, "Coco on behalf of Bill Pierce via Coco" <
> coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com on behalf of coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> >Chris, as best I can, your answers are:
> >
> >1. Under Nitros9:YES, RSDOS:trickier
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> >2. "DW"=Drivewire for 'real' Cocos, "Becker"=Drivewire for
> emulators/CocoFPGA using the becker port through TCP/IP
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> >3. Latest Stable NitrOS9 is 3.3.0. No changes have been made recently.
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> >4. Latest DriveWire4 is 4.3.3o and will run on any host supporting Java
> 5/6 (some say 5, some say 6, host OS platform dependant)
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> >6. The build instructions on the NitrOS9 wiki are "more-or-less" current.
> Your OS environment may vary the process.
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Christopher Fox <cbfox01 at syr.edu>
> >To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >Sent: Sat, Jan 23, 2016 10:40 am
> >Subject: [Coco] Real floppy + CocoSDC + DW & Nitros9, and other sundry ?s
> >
> >Fellow Coconauts,
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> >A few questions (I know some of which may have already been answered on
> the list, but my query-fu is weak today).
> >
> >1. Is it possible to have access to real floppies, CocoSDC and DriveWire
> all in one Nitros9 session or from RS-DOS? I’m looking for ways to grab
> backups of my physical media before they suffer some horrible bitrot.
> Guessing I’d back up as .dsk format somehow? I do have a Coco 3-upgraded
> MPI.
> >
> >2. Looking at the Nitros9 repository of built dsk images, I see both
> “*_becker.dsk” and “*_dw.dsk” variants, but under Format both are listed as
> for “DriveWire 3/4”. What’s the difference?
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> >3. What’s the latest stable version of Nitros9 that’s considered the
> “community standard”, i.e. what most are running? In the sourceforge
> release folder<," target=_blank>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/files/releases/>, I see v3.3.0 as
> the latest, last modified April 2014?
> >
> >4. What’s the latest working version of DriveWire, and what host
> environment have you found to be most stable? I do have an idle RaspPi
> (RaspPi 1 Model B), if there’s a suitable packaged environment. I recall
> someone might’ve been working on one?
> >
> >5. I understand it’s possible to build Nitros9 and many other packages
> from source. If I wanted to dabble in this space, is the documentation
> available here<http://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/wiki/Building_NitrOS9/>
> still current?
> >
> >Thanks so much for your time and assistance, everyone!
> >
> >Christopher
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