[Coco] is this a bug?

[Dave Philipsen]

Cool!


On 4/20/2017 8:24 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> Dave, at one point, Brett & I were discussing creating a menu for the loader allowing you to choose your bootfile on bootup. I haven't had time to mess with it, but it would be fairly easy. The only missing ingrediant to the loader is a dir listing for the os9boot files and a selection system. My thought was to use an extension as an identifier for the bootfiles like "*.os9" or something like that (something not normally used in os9). Create a filter in the loader and display all bootfiles and select by number.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Apr 20, 2017 8:46 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] is this a bug?
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> On Apr 20, 2017 3:40 AM, "Dave Philipsen" <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:>> Just in case anyone's curious, I'm attempting to make a slightly modifiedversion of Brett's boot ROM for the CoCo3FPGA.  He did an excellent jobwith the booter except that it was assembled on a non-native assembler andported over.  Perhaps I am being sort of a purist but I'm trying to makethis work directly under OS9. I figure I've got a fast enough machine andall of my work files are on a fast SD card. It takes all of two seconds toassemble the file.  So why not?Is there a way to officially mod my work to keep it kosher with bothassembler environments?  This would mean less work in future.> Brett's loader allows the OS9Boot file to be placed anywhere on the diskso the use of a 'gen' program is no longer necessary.  If you want tomodify or change around which modules are in your bootfile then you simplydo it and re-boot.  He has taken a lot of the hassle out of the process.However, I know that at some time I will erroneously create a boot filethat will not boot and then I'll be stuck (yes, I could switch back to DECBand use DW but I don't want to do that).  So I want to create a boot loaderthan can not only use the OS9Boot file but also, as a fail-safe, anotherfile such as OS9Boot.safe could be optionally selected in case I get myselfin such a bind.Excelent idea.  Nothings really stopping us from having mutiple bootfiles.  With a touch more work, you could mod my work to load the os9modules individually - have a text file somewhere that has a list ofmodules to load.brett-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
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