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Joel Ewy | 1 May 2008 02:47

Re: Techrepublic Rocks !!!!

Interesting.  Of course I can turn on a real CoCo, load up Telewriter
64/128, and be typing a document before the BIOS on a typical PC has
even finished its POST, let alone booting any operating system off of
any kind of mass storage.  Still, the process he describes is pretty
cool, and I have used BartPE to make a bootable Windows CD for
diagnostic purposes.

JCE

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> the guy is talking along and mentions "1st, you need a PC with a bios." and
> as he is talking a CoCo appears on the screen.  Obviously not the type you
> need for the task but it was cool to see.  Go watch and see for yourself...
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jdaggett | 1 May 2008 04:22
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Re: Techrepublic Rocks !!!!

Actually putting a USB Flash drive on a Coco is very doable.

james 

On 30 Apr 2008 at 15:52, Tom Seagrove wrote:

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> Went to watch a video today about creating a USB bootable thumb drive.
>  So, the guy is talking along and mentions "1st, you need a PC with a
> bios." and as he is talking a CoCo appears on the screen.  Obviously
> not the type you need for the task but it was cool to see.  Go watch
> and see for yourself...
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Dave Kelly | 1 May 2008 04:24

Re: Techrepublic Rocks !!!!

Joel Ewy wrote:
> Interesting.  Of course I can turn on a real CoCo, load up Telewriter
> 64/128, and be typing a document before the BIOS on a typical PC has
> even finished its POST, let alone booting any operating system off of
> any kind of mass storage.  Still, the process he describes is pretty
> cool, and I have used BartPE to make a bootable Windows CD for
> diagnostic purposes.
> 
> JCE
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> Tom Seagrove wrote:
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>> Went to watch a video today about creating a USB bootable thumb drive.  So,
>> the guy is talking along and mentions "1st, you need a PC with a bios." and
>> as he is talking a CoCo appears on the screen.  Obviously not the type you
>> need for the task but it was cool to see.  Go watch and see for yourself...
>>

I bought one of  those with ubuntu Linux on it from Mad Tux. Comes on an 
8 gig flash drive.

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Willard Goosey | 1 May 2008 10:47

Re: Programs for NitrOS-9

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:59:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Willard Goosey wrote:

> In that case, I'd suggest some syscall/get/set/stat got changed and
> is no longer compatible.  

...Or one of the windint calls.  There were some problems with Window
Writer around NitrOS 3.0 or 3.1, but Boisy fixed the problem there.

> Unforch, I can't run multiview on my machine now as all the stuff
> I'd cut into cc3io, co80 and friends was apparently thrown away

Plus, it's pretty obvious that the icon editor was pushing BASIC-09 to
its limits.  Add in the pain inherent in debugging a BASIC-09 MV
app...  I looked the code over myself, and decided I wasn't going to
mess with it...

> I thought so at the time, :-) And it is a pleasure, when the mouse
> click actually registers where the pointer is, and the pointer moves
> one pixel at a time when you move it.  Very very frustrating when it
> doesn't.

I know, I know.  But it seems like such a waste to hook a *mouse* up
to an rs-232 port!

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Gene Heskett | 1 May 2008 11:12
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Re: Programs for NitrOS-9

On Thursday 01 May 2008, Willard Goosey wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:59:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Willard Goosey wrote:
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>> In that case, I'd suggest some syscall/get/set/stat got changed and
>> is no longer compatible.
>
>...Or one of the windint calls.  There were some problems with Window
>Writer around NitrOS 3.0 or 3.1, but Boisy fixed the problem there.

Never had a copy of Window Writer, so no knowledge of that.

>> Unforch, I can't run multiview on my machine now as all the stuff
>> I'd cut into cc3io, co80 and friends was apparently thrown away

>Plus, it's pretty obvious that the icon editor was pushing BASIC-09 to
>its limits.  Add in the pain inherent in debugging a BASIC-09 MV
>app...

No more painful than any other language IMO.

>I looked the code over myself, and decided I wasn't going to 
>mess with it...

This is IcnEdit?  It's 3 screens full of icons limitation got in the way, and 
one would need more than 128k to expand that.  But I think it might be 
doable.  One could also use more than 1 icon directory since the .AIF can 
point anyplace.  I think I had used that before my drive upchucked.

>> I thought so at the time, :-) And it is a pleasure, when the mouse
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Mike Nelson | 1 May 2008 23:40
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[Color Computer] Basic O9

Can someone tell me if Basic O9 comes with OS9 Level 2?

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Rogelio Perea | 1 May 2008 23:52
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Re: [Color Computer] Basic O9

Not in the stock Tandy distribution. Basic09 was marketed as a separate
package from both OS9L1 and OS9L2.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mike Nelson <mjnelson12@...> wrote:

> Can someone tell me if Basic O9 comes with OS9 Level 2?
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Bruce W. Calkins | 2 May 2008 01:32
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Re: [Color Computer] Basic O9

> Can someone tell me if Basic O9 comes with OS9 Level 2?
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OS-9 Level 2 came with Basic 09. 
Some other useful routines were left out of Level 2.

Basic 09 was a seperate package under Level 1.
As far as I know; there was no difference in Basic 09 between Level 1 & 2.

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John R. Hogerhuis | 2 May 2008 02:15
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Re: [Color Computer] Basic O9

Rogelio Perea <os9dude <at> ...> writes:

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> Not in the stock Tandy distribution. Basic09 was marketed as a
> separate package from both OS9L1 and OS9L2.

My recollection is that Basic09 did come stock with OS9L2. There was
separate package available for OS9L1.

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Rogelio Perea | 2 May 2008 02:35
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Re: [Color Computer] Basic O9

Big oops... indeed, now that the tomato is still dripping from my face
Basic09 was packaged with Level 2... for some reason I went thinking Level 1
and then everything went downhill. ASM did not come with L2 but with L1, for
L2 the Development package was separate... oh my...

Signs of excessive high power RF exposure side effects? :-)

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> > Can someone tell me if Basic O9 comes with OS9 Level 2?
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> Some other useful routines were left out of Level 2.
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> Basic 09 was a seperate package under Level 1.
> As far as I know; there was no difference in Basic 09 between Level 1 & 2.
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> Bruce W.

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