BitWiz
Experienced Member
Now that I am up and running I have the following questions:
1. Where can I get a copy of the OS/8 TTY driver that supports lower case?
2. When using my terminal emulator how can I get OS/8 to recognize backspace instead of rubout?
3. The HELP command output screen control codes but when using VT-100 emulation it clears the screen and displays the help and clears the screen again before I can read the help. What terminal emulation should I use?
4. Is there a patch for OS/8 to support dates from 2020 to 2027?
5. I built my boot diskette without using SET SYS NO INIT. Since I told BUILD to zero out the destination directory would this be a problem or should I rebuild it with SET SYS NO INIT first?
6. In the SerialDisk disk images there are a handful of extensions I don't recognize. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. They are:
BH
BX
DA
DC
FF
FT
HN
IN
JR
LC
LD
MU
OV
SF
SY
TE
TM
TS
TX
UF
WS
X8.
7. In addition to the aforementioned extensions, there are some files that start with a period, (.boot, .cclo, .chain, etc). What are these?
My goal here is to clean up these disk images and remove any duplication so that more interesting and possibly useful stuff can all me mounted at the same time.
8. After I clean up the disk images, what additional programs, games, languages would you recommend I add? Please provide a link to them if you can.
9. So that I can create a bootable image with the latest of all of the major programs, do we have a list of what the versions are and where to find them?
I'm sorry for the length of this message and the large number of questions. I'm hoping that I can do some organization and give back to the community.
For example: I have compiled RX02SY.PA and I have am running a bootable RX02 system with SerialDisk drivers also installed so I have access for all four SerialDisk RK05 "mounted" images.
1. Where can I get a copy of the OS/8 TTY driver that supports lower case?
2. When using my terminal emulator how can I get OS/8 to recognize backspace instead of rubout?
3. The HELP command output screen control codes but when using VT-100 emulation it clears the screen and displays the help and clears the screen again before I can read the help. What terminal emulation should I use?
4. Is there a patch for OS/8 to support dates from 2020 to 2027?
5. I built my boot diskette without using SET SYS NO INIT. Since I told BUILD to zero out the destination directory would this be a problem or should I rebuild it with SET SYS NO INIT first?
6. In the SerialDisk disk images there are a handful of extensions I don't recognize. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. They are:
BH
BX
DA
DC
FF
FT
HN
IN
JR
LC
LD
MU
OV
SF
SY
TE
TM
TS
TX
UF
WS
X8.
7. In addition to the aforementioned extensions, there are some files that start with a period, (.boot, .cclo, .chain, etc). What are these?
My goal here is to clean up these disk images and remove any duplication so that more interesting and possibly useful stuff can all me mounted at the same time.
8. After I clean up the disk images, what additional programs, games, languages would you recommend I add? Please provide a link to them if you can.
9. So that I can create a bootable image with the latest of all of the major programs, do we have a list of what the versions are and where to find them?
I'm sorry for the length of this message and the large number of questions. I'm hoping that I can do some organization and give back to the community.
For example: I have compiled RX02SY.PA and I have am running a bootable RX02 system with SerialDisk drivers also installed so I have access for all four SerialDisk RK05 "mounted" images.