Re: 6809 mill clone

[boisypitre@gmail.com]

Just a follow-up.  I did some more reading and see you are trying to boot OS-9 from a floppy disk.

What I did on the Atari was to pull the bootfile down via the Atari SIO port hooked up to my Mac running DriveWire Server (https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/).  DriveWire provides virtual disk network and terminal services to a computer running NitrOS-9, and the server is written in Java, so it can run on pretty much any computer.

If the Apple computer that you have sports a serial port, let me know what kind it is.  I've written a DriveWire OS-9 subroutine module that hooks into the rbdw driver which pulls sectors from DriveWire.  It should be trivial to adapt the dwio subroutine module to accommodate the serial port on Apple systems.

On Sunday, August 5, 2012 9:29:18 PM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
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> My name is Boisy Pitre, and I manage the NitrOS-9 Project.
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> I also created the Liber809 board (http://www.cloud9tech.com/ and http://liber809.blogspot.com) for the Atari 8-bit computers, and ported NitrOS-9 Level 1 to it.
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> My sights were set on the Apple IIe, but now I've discovered this thread after going on IRC to seek an Apple IIe to buy in order to develop a Liber809 plug-in card for the Apple II bus.
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> It looks like someone beat me to it, and frankly I'm thrilled!
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> I'll be more than happy to help you port NitrOS-9 Level 1 to your 6809 board.  NitrOS-9 is really where OS-9/6809 is at these days.  I got it running on the Atari just fine, and I am confident that we can get it running on your board. 
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> On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:31:23 PM UTC-5, Alex Freed wrote:
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