ToolShed

ToolShed is a cornucopia of tools and source code for the Tandy Color Computer and Dragon micro.

The repository contains:

• os9 and decb tools for copying files to/from host file systems to disk images.
• source code for CoCo and Dragon system ROMs.
• source code for custom ROMs like HDB-DOS, DriveWire DOS, and SuperDOS.
• source code for the Microware C compiler for cross-hosted compilation (currently needs work).
• other miscellaneous tools.
• assemblers to perform cross-development from Windows, Linux, and macOS (see the NOTE below on assembler recommendations).

NOTE: while the venerable 6809 cross-assembler, mamou, is part of the repository, it is only kept for historical value. Everyone should really be using William Astle's excellent LWTOOLS which contains the lwasm 6809 assembler and lwlink linker. Download the latest version of the source here.

Building on Windows

The recommended build environment is MingW32 or MingW64, MSYS2, or the WSL subsystem for Windows 10+.

The easiest way to install MingW is using a mingw-get-inst.*.exe from here.

Inside MingW, make sure you have "make" installed. There are several options, but the simpler mingw-make should be good enough:

$ mingw-get install mingw-make

Enter the unpackaged toolshed directory and run:

$ make -C build/unix install CC=gcc

Building on Linux

To build cocofuse you will need to have FUSE libraries and header files installed. On Debian-based systems:

$ sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev

Enter the unpackaged toolshed directory and run:

$ make -C build/unix install

Building on macOS

To build cocofuse for the Mac, you will need to have FUSE libraries and header files installed.

The best way to do this is to first visit the Homebrew page and use the simple one-line ruby command to install Homebrew on your Mac.

Once that's done, you can use the brew command to install macfuse (osxfuse has been succeeded by macfuse as of version 4.0.0.):

brew install macuse

If you have previously install osxfuse, you can use brew command to uninstall oxsfuse and install macfuse

brew uninstall osxfuse
brew install macfuse

Then, enter the unpackaged toolshed directory and run:

$ make -C build/unix install

Building HDB-DOS and DriveWire DOS

It is highly recommended to have LWTOOLS installed. You will also need "makewav" from ToolShed installed to build WAV files. See hdbdos/README.txt and the makefiles for different build options.

To build all default flavors:

$ make -C dwdos
$ make -C hdbdos
$ make -C superdos

Instead of LWTOOLS the deprecated mamou can still be used (YMMV):

$ make -C dwdos AS="mamou -r -q"
$ make -C hdbdos AS="mamou -r -q"

Note that SuperDOS still builds with mamou by default.