[Coco] DECB emulator/virtual implementation in NitrOS9

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 20:09:19 EST 2010


I still like the idea of your Super BASIC on a modern machine.  That
reminds me there was an interesting article on slashdot about BASIC
and education a couple days ago:
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/12/29/0036216/Why-Teach-Programming-With-BASIC


On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Steve Bjork <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:
> It would be easier to write a DECB from the ground up that run under
> NitrOS9.
>
> The way DECB was coded would not let OS-9 running at the same time.
>
> I thing you better off writing DECB for a modern computer.  Just think of
> speed your program would run.
>
> But this was the idea behind my Super Color BASIC project from a few years
> back.
>
> Steve Bjork
>
> On 12/30/2010 4:41 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> Some of us were chatting in IRC about coco stuff and Bruce had the
>> idea of bringing DECB into OS9 somehow.
>> Has there been an attempt at this in the past?  Would it be possible
>> to somehow call the DECB rom routines without
>> completely driving NitrOS9 insane?
>>
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