[Coco] [Color Computer] OS-9 Editor and NitrOS-9 Download

[David]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:22:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 06 December 2003 22:52, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >Scred was an OSK editor that came with the MM/1 and was an official
> > Microware product.  Didn't know it had been back-ported to 6809. 
> > Those who used it on 68K systems said it was very crash-prone. 
> > --Mike K.
> 
> Its just as crash-prone on the coco.  Not of much use really.

I found the cause of one crash - actually, I think it was the same thing
in both the coco and OSK editors.  The pointer to one of the lookup
tables for something was defined as a signed integer rather than an
unsigned integer.  ALT-<key> input was, of course, defined as a negative
number, causing a jump to a wrong location.  I posted a patch for this
on Compuserve and/or maybe Delphi, plus some other places.  If anyone
still uses coco scred, I can post the modpatch file to fix it.  I
attempted to do the same thing for OSK, but never was able to track this
one down. I went to ved anyway..