[Coco] OS9-L2 vs NitrOS9

[Bob Devries]

I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that NitrOS9 was at least 90% 
compatible with stock Tandy OS9.

Certainly, I have run all the software which I usually use without any 
problems.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Fadden" <t.fadden at cox.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS9-L2 vs NitrOS9


>I agree. Nitros9 is fine if you are a guru programmer and can create your 
>own drivers and programs, But the OS is so stripped down there is little 
>left of any use other than to manipulate the os.
>
> I personally would prefer to go a bit slower, and have everything at hand. 
> If I wanna go fast I get on my vista64 machine.
>
> Now much trouble would it be for the people with the know-how and source 
> to create the drivers/software to use the new stuff on OS9L2, the ORIGINAL 
> coco3 os9 with tons of software available for it.
>
> No disrespect to those who have spent countless hours tweaking and 
> creating Nitros9, but I think they have tweaked themselves into a corner.
>
> Tim
>
>
> George Ramsower wrote:
>> I'm curious about this:
>>
>> Nitros9 is somewhat faster than OS9 and requires a Hitachi 6309 chip. Of 
>> course, there's Nitros9-6809 but still, it's Nitros9.
>>
>> In recent times, some folks have introduced new hardware which is really 
>> cool stuff but, the drivers and whatever other software provided in the 
>> package claim to be  Nitros9 stuff.
>>
>> There are a few of these hardware things that interest me. Next month, 
>> I'm getting three of those Pupo style? keyboard things to put a PC type 
>> keyboard on a coco.  It's a Plug-N-Play thing that will work. I'm almost 
>> out of keyboards now.  I think it's Cloud 9 that handles or makes those. 
>> It would eliminate that darned, fat and cumbersome ribbon cable I use to 
>> relocate the Coco keyboard.
>>
>> The vendors which have other products that interest me, advertise they 
>> provide Nitros9 drivers.
>>
>> This is why I haven't acquired any of the latter items available to date. 
>> I have asked the vendors if those drivers would work on my OS9 L2 system 
>> and haven't received replies.
>>
>>  So there are two questions in this post...
>>
>> 1. Will a Nitros9 driver work on a Mircroware OS9 system on a 64K CC  or 
>> a CC3?
>> 2. Have we abandoned OS-9?
>>
>>  I suppose if #1 is FALSE and  #2 is TRUE, then I'm in real trouble. I 
>> think it would take me months to convert to Nitros9, given the time I 
>> have available. I'm using three cocos at this time. One has a hard drive, 
>> the CNC coco is not just a CNC coco. The ports are versatile and I have 
>> numerous OS9 boot disks with special boot files, startups and 
>> software(B09) dedicated to the task at hand. Some use graphics. 
>> Converting all this stuff to Nitros9 would be a monumental task I think. 
>> The third coco is a 64K unit and does simple tasks for my house. I use 
>> OS9 on that one also. I have about a dozen special boot disks for that 
>> one.  The computer with the hard drive only has three. The CNC coco has 
>> now has fourteen boot disks. Only two operate the milling machine. The 
>> rest do suff like  operate my darkroom/enlarger, monitoring the 
>> weather(looking for water), turning lights on and off... and more
>>
>>
>> Heck! It seems I"m being left in the dust behind the pack while using OS9 
>> L2...... Dangit!
>>
>>
>>
>> George
>>
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