[Coco] Nitros9

[Frank Pittel]

The work of both Chris and Roy has done a lot to extend the usable
life of the Coco!! What we need now is for someone to step up and 
way to eliminate the need for the floppy. While Cloud 9 has come
close the floppy is still needed! :-( After the floppy issue is
resolved we can concentrate on doing away with the MPI! :-)

Frank


On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:02:59PM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> 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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