[Coco] NitrOS-9 newbie needs some help

[Willard Goosey]

>From: "Nickolas Marentes" <nick at launch.net.au>
>Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:30:22 +1000

>booted. This is why I am pointing my finger at the RAM again. I remember the
>trauma I had from this past experience.

Could be.  
>
>I've been running a 6ms access RS-DOS rom since the CoCo 1 days without any
>formatting problems including low interleave settings.

Well, you didn't say... For all I knew you still had the original
CoCo1 drives in use.

Just out of curiosity, what tools do you use for DECB development?  If
OS-9 traumatized you, "Color Disk EDTASM" terrified me!  I've got
better development tools on my CP/M machines!  

>When I bought the original OS-9 from Tandy, I soon after bought the
>Development pack. Actually, the Australian Tandy head office in Sydney rang
>me directly asking me if I was interested in it!! 

Wow!  That's pretty cool.

>I said yes with the dream that I would use the ASM to write cool
>stuff for it. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I didn't even get
>past mastering OS-9 before losing my sanity.  :)

RMA's a good, solid assembler, and scred's a reasonable editor.  Most
of the rest of the dev system has updated replacements that have been
integrated into NitrOS-9.

>I have the originals but thought I'd stick with the NitrOS-9 docs just in
>case it's different (or better).

The Tandy/Microware books are fairly good references but horrible for
actually learning to use OS-9.

>I used an Amiga and loved it's OS. Super smooth, practically bullet proof
>and an efficient GUI.

Yeah, AmigaDOS is cool.  We'll probably never see another OS that
knows floppy disks so well.  

Willard
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