[Coco] NitrOS-9 V03.02.01 Release

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Boisy

I should be able to get back onto the bbasic09 manual next 
weekend. I close Monday on the sale of my house and wil complete 
my move by Wednesday.. I should have my computer desk and 
equiptment up and running by the weedend if everything goes right. 


james

On 7 May 2004 at 7:45, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

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> All,

> 

> NitrOS-9 V03.02.01 has been released and is available on the website

> at www.nitros9.org for download.

> 

> What's New

> Extra commands were added, and a few bugs were squashed in this 

> release, and more and more commonality is being brought between Level

> 1 and Level 2 distributions.  Driver names for the same hardware is

> now the same in both Level 1 and Level 2.  Also, driver names are

> moving toward a more OS-9/68K style.  For example, sacia has been

> renamed to sc6551 to reflect that it is (1) an SCF driver, and (2) it

> is for the 6551 ACIA chip.  Expect more of these types of changes in

> future releases.

> 

> Documentation

> This is still an area in the project that is severely lacking.  I have

> not heard from the two people that have stepped up to do the

> documentation... James Dagget and Richard Crilisp (sp?) were last

> working on Basic09 documentation in Word.   The NitrOS-9 User Manual

> and Technical Manual need to be written.

> 

> Future Direction

> There are still a number of things that I would like to see done with

> NitrOS-9.  For one, splitting GrfInt and WindInt back out as separate

> modules, like it was done originally in OS-9 Level Two.  This would

> save on system RAM for users who don't want to run Multi-Vue/GShell. 

> Also, taking the CoCo 3 Hi-Res screen GetStat/SetStat calls out of

> VDGInt and putting them in a separate subroutine module that can be

> called from VDGInt or GrfInt, so that games like KQ3, Koronis Rift,

> etc. can run without needing the 32x16 column support that VDGInt has.

> 

> Boisy

> 

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