[Coco] Nitros9

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Tom Seagrove may have mentioned these words:
>See http://www.nitros9.org/ for everything you ever wanted to know.....

[[ see below - I'm an old fart that's not happy with top-posting...
    ;-) ]]

>-----Original Message-----
>Subject: [Coco] Nitros9
>
>
>I'm seeing a lot of references to Nitro OS9.  I'm guessing that you can load
>a new OS onto the Coco from a floppy disk.
>
>Is this OS free?  I'd love to try it out.
>
>Does it work in 80 column mode?
>
>I've currently got my Coco running using an RGB Commodore 64 monitor; when I
>switch to 80 columns, I can see
>letters but they are hard to view.  Is there a way to use a different
>monitor to get better resolution in 80 column mode?

Ah, but he wanted to know *more*... ;-)

WRT monitors & whatnot - Yes, there's ways of using better monitors & TVs 
for 80column modes.

 From the sounds of it, you'd be "happier" with a stock CM-8 designed for a 
CoCo - 80 columns was pretty decent - the 106 columns was a bit rough, tho.

However, if you can find an Amiga or Atari (SC1224) they had even better 
dot-pitch yet; but you'd need an adapter cable or even an adapter circuit 
(if it was negative-sync instead of the CoCo's positive, IIRC) to use it.

If you're looking for something a bit more "modern" both Roy Justus & Chris 
Hawks can help out. Roy builds a CoCo -> VGA upconverter so you can hook up 
any recent PC/Mac monitor to your CoCo; and Chris Hawks builds a similar 
device but for hooking your CoCo to an SVideo TV/Monitor; either of which 
will give you a *wonderful* picture on more recent displays.

HTH,
"Merch"

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Roger "Merch" Merchberger   | Anarchy doesn't scale well. -- Me
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