[Coco] Emulators and Nitros 9?

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Steve Batson
<steve at batsonphotography.com> wrote:
> I was always a RS-DOS person so don't know anything really about OS-9,
> etc.
>
> I
>  have a real coco 2 and a 3, but wondering if and how well Nitros 9 will
>  run on the emulators and which one is best. I have an Intel based iMac
> and a few PCs.
>
> I'm thinking it would be
>  fun to mess with Nitros 9, but would like to do it on an emulator.
> Feedback would be great. I don't have a bunch of hardware I want to
> connect. Would be great
> If printer and other basics on the host were available. Let me know what
> you think.
>


NitrOS9 works fine in MESS and VCC, as others have mentioned.  As for
"printer and other basics"... well sort of.  This is one area that I
think both emulators could do better on.  MESS will send bitbanger
output to a file, so printing is sort of possible.  That is the only
communication you can do with the outside world, and it's one way.
I'm not sure what VCC's capabilities in that area are, but they were
similarly limited last I checked.. no two way communication between
emulator and outside world.  So, depending on what you meant by "other
basics", you might be happy in an emulator or you might be frustrated
:)   If you're comfortable with patching and building things from
source, John Linville wrote a patch for MESS that gives you two way
communications via a FIFO tied to a TCP socket.

> Thanks
>
> Steve Batson
> steve at batsonphotography.com
> http://www.batsonphotography.com
>
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