old operation system called OS-9 for amiga ?

kas1e · 11 October 2005, 14:15

Das anyone to know where i can get it, old os called OS-9 (created by microware) version for amiga ? I found only this link:
http://www.radisys.com/oem_products/...asheetsid=1124

and this kind of info about amiga version:

Where do I get OS-9/68000 for the Commodore Amiga?
Digby Tarvin from Australia, has a port of OS-9/68000 for the Amiga, which costs approximately $600 US.

Digby Tarvin, Technical Director
# Tesseract PTY. Ltd

Computer Consultants
53 George St.
Redfern, New South Wales
Australia, 2016
Fax: 011-61-2-698-8881
E-mail: digbyt@acm.org

World Wide Web: http://www.mcpl.com/tessract.html

So, anyone to know some info/links/urls/isos

?

kriz · 11 October 2005, 16:12

never heard about it, I had OS9 on my Amiga. But that was OS9 from Apple ..

What do you want it for ?

---BTW! Big welcome to THE Amiga board !

kas1e · 11 October 2005, 18:52

If you interesting, here is some info about os9: http://os9archive.rtsi.com/
(not osx from apple, but os9 from microware). It's realy old OS,which today reborn in os9000 for x86 and ppc (i don't know , maybe someone ported already it to blizzard/cyber ppc), but what i know exactly, that i was use os9 on 68030, but not on amiga, and , as i know amiga port was be. So, very interesting to do some tests and backing to the past

whiteb · 19 October 2005, 08:57

Nothing to do with the Amiga pal !!!

alexh · 20 October 2005, 11:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by whiteb

Nothing to do with the Amiga pal !!!

Erm yes it is...

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~pruyne/os9faq.html

http://www.funet.fi/pub/amiga/unix/unix/os9/

whiteb · 20 October 2005, 15:33

wow

I stand corrected.

Zetr0 · 23 October 2005, 19:52

Looks damn Geeky to me..... I MUST HAVE IT!!!!!!

redblade · 24 October 2005, 07:19

yeah I want a copy as well

commie1974 · 26 October 2005, 09:48

Well, buy yourselves a Dragon 64 or a Tandy CoCo 2/3 and enjoy the power of OS/9 8 bit! Amiga itself has a REALLY great OS, no need for alternatives, believe me....

kas1e · 28 October 2005, 23:12

question is not about alernative for amiga os, quetsion is a feel free more amiga stuff. os/9, p.OS, unix clones - nevermind, mind is it - it is interesting to someone

Well, i talk about this port with author, and hi said (some quotest):

------
I was running it on Amiga 1000, 2000 and 3000. I had also tested it on a 500 at Microware headquarters. Commodore were not very good at releasing programming details on their expansion cards, however, so I only had driver support for a few HD controllers.
------
about1200:
------
I would guess that all the standard hardware will work (screen, serial, floppy etc), but I don't know about things like hard disk or network interfaces.

But as I havn't had a 1200 to test on, I really can't garantee anything.
------

So I don't see any technical problem, especially if you are familiar with writing OS9 device drivers. The only difficulty is commercial/legal one of the cost of licensing the software from Microware, and the practical one of my getting access to the old stock..

------
But today OS-9/68K has really given way to open source software for hobbyist users. If Microware ever decide to make OS-9 free for non-commercial use, then I would happily make the port available on the Internet, but currently I am unfortunately not allowed to do this.

------

I had to pay a total of about US$600.00 per copy sold, so even at no proffit only commercial users were really happy to pay that price.

> 600 australian US$ how much it is in american US$ ?

That is the US$ price - I had to pay Microware in US Dollars. It worked out to about A$900.00 at the exchange rate of the time. That included the C compiler and manual set for Professional OS-9.

That was the per-copy royalty only, and it was also necessary to pay to update my 'development pak' on each OS upgrade, and I needed two different ones - one for the 68000 machines (500, 1000, 2000) and one for the 68020
family (2000 with accelerator or 3000).

So .. if he back to australia, hi maybe can found some time to found this port, and maybe microware can access on free published, but i think not

commie1974 · 29 October 2005, 10:40

Man, I understand... It's really sad that someone like you would like to do such a job, and most of us would really be interested.. But such a price is over an ordinary user's budget, I think! Let us all shout to Microware: Give the damn thing to developers for freeeeee!!!!!

Zetr0 · 07 November 2005, 11:09

it increases the devleoper base 2n fold

quarkx · 15 December 2013, 18:20

OS9 for the CoCo is being constantly updated by the Community. Called NitrOS9 it has been really supported and would make you 8bit CoCo do things you could have only dreamed of on an 8 bit machine.
Oh- did I mention it was FREE!
Mircroware (and OS9) were recently sold again, so no one knows where THEY stand on support for OS9. Up until the recent sale, they still supported every flavor of it

11 October 2005, 14:15	#1
kas1e Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: russia/moskow Age: 44 Posts: 181	old operation system called OS-9 for amiga ? Das anyone to know where i can get it, old os called OS-9 (created by microware) version for amiga ? I found only this link: http://www.radisys.com/oem_products/...asheetsid=1124 and this kind of info about amiga version: Where do I get OS-9/68000 for the Commodore Amiga? Digby Tarvin from Australia, has a port of OS-9/68000 for the Amiga, which costs approximately $600 US. Digby Tarvin, Technical Director # Tesseract PTY. Ltd Computer Consultants 53 George St. Redfern, New South Wales Australia, 2016 Fax: 011-61-2-698-8881 E-mail: digbyt@acm.org World Wide Web: http://www.mcpl.com/tessract.html So, anyone to know some info/links/urls/isos ?

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11 October 2005, 16:12	#2
kriz Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: No(R)Way Age: 41 Posts: 3,198	never heard about it, I had OS9 on my Amiga. But that was OS9 from Apple .. What do you want it for ? ---BTW! Big welcome to THE Amiga board !

11 October 2005, 18:52	#3
kas1e Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: russia/moskow Age: 44 Posts: 181	If you interesting, here is some info about os9: http://os9archive.rtsi.com/ (not osx from apple, but os9 from microware). It's realy old OS,which today reborn in os9000 for x86 and ppc (i don't know , maybe someone ported already it to blizzard/cyber ppc), but what i know exactly, that i was use os9 on 68030, but not on amiga, and , as i know amiga port was be. So, very interesting to do some tests and backing to the past

19 October 2005, 08:57	#4
whiteb Fanatically Amiga. Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Age: 54 Posts: 1,557	Nothing to do with the Amiga pal !!!

20 October 2005, 15:33	#6
whiteb Fanatically Amiga. Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Age: 54 Posts: 1,557	wow I stand corrected.

23 October 2005, 19:52	#7
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	Looks damn Geeky to me..... I MUST HAVE IT!!!!!!

24 October 2005, 07:19	#8
redblade Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Middle Earth Age: 40 Posts: 2,127	yeah I want a copy as well

26 October 2005, 09:48	#9
commie1974 Amiga? What's that?!? Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Piraeus-Greece Age: 50 Posts: 260	Well, buy yourselves a Dragon 64 or a Tandy CoCo 2/3 and enjoy the power of OS/9 8 bit! Amiga itself has a REALLY great OS, no need for alternatives, believe me....

28 October 2005, 23:12	#10
kas1e Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: russia/moskow Age: 44 Posts: 181	question is not about alernative for amiga os, quetsion is a feel free more amiga stuff. os/9, p.OS, unix clones - nevermind, mind is it - it is interesting to someone Well, i talk about this port with author, and hi said (some quotest): ------ I was running it on Amiga 1000, 2000 and 3000. I had also tested it on a 500 at Microware headquarters. Commodore were not very good at releasing programming details on their expansion cards, however, so I only had driver support for a few HD controllers. ------ about1200: ------ I would guess that all the standard hardware will work (screen, serial, floppy etc), but I don't know about things like hard disk or network interfaces. But as I havn't had a 1200 to test on, I really can't garantee anything. ------ So I don't see any technical problem, especially if you are familiar with writing OS9 device drivers. The only difficulty is commercial/legal one of the cost of licensing the software from Microware, and the practical one of my getting access to the old stock.. ------ But today OS-9/68K has really given way to open source software for hobbyist users. If Microware ever decide to make OS-9 free for non-commercial use, then I would happily make the port available on the Internet, but currently I am unfortunately not allowed to do this. ------ I had to pay a total of about US$600.00 per copy sold, so even at no proffit only commercial users were really happy to pay that price. > 600 australian US$ how much it is in american US$ ? That is the US$ price - I had to pay Microware in US Dollars. It worked out to about A$900.00 at the exchange rate of the time. That included the C compiler and manual set for Professional OS-9. That was the per-copy royalty only, and it was also necessary to pay to update my 'development pak' on each OS upgrade, and I needed two different ones - one for the 68000 machines (500, 1000, 2000) and one for the 68020 family (2000 with accelerator or 3000). So .. if he back to australia, hi maybe can found some time to found this port, and maybe microware can access on free published, but i think not

29 October 2005, 10:40	#11
commie1974 Amiga? What's that?!? Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Piraeus-Greece Age: 50 Posts: 260	Man, I understand... It's really sad that someone like you would like to do such a job, and most of us would really be interested.. But such a price is over an ordinary user's budget, I think! Let us all shout to Microware: Give the damn thing to developers for freeeeee!!!!!

07 November 2005, 11:09	#12
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	it increases the devleoper base 2n fold

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15 December 2013, 18:20	#13
quarkx Our prices are Insane! Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Edmonton Posts: 465	OS9 for the CoCo is being constantly updated by the Community. Called NitrOS9 it has been really supported and would make you 8bit CoCo do things you could have only dreamed of on an 8 bit machine. Oh- did I mention it was FREE! Mircroware (and OS9) were recently sold again, so no one knows where THEY stand on support for OS9. Up until the recent sale, they still supported every flavor of it