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

[Robert Gault]

David wrote:
> 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..
> 
> 
Yes, please post the patch and better the source code for the patch if 
you still have it.