[Coco] BASIC09 - How good is it?

Tue May 14 07:45:34 EDT 2013

also MinTED is great for Basic09 files ;)

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Mike Rowen <mike at bcmr3.net> wrote:

> Nick,
> There are many editors for OS-9. I'm like you and prefer to do all
> programming on the CoCo itself. I have always used Ved by Bob van der Poel.
> It's small, but feature rich. It's still available at Cloud-9. Basic09 is a
> much better environment to work in because you can keep each routine
> (procedure) in it's own file, so no giant monolithic edit. You just reload
> the code you've edited to test/debug. Also, OS-9 has windowing, so one
> window can run the editor, while another has BASIC09 running. A full
> library of graphic routines are provided. You simply call these from
> BASIC09.
>
> I strongly recommend you grab the PDFs for "The Official BASIC09 Tour
> Guide"  & "The Rainbow Guide to OS-9 L2". These are both Tutorial. The
> NitrOS9 docs & OS9 docs will provide most of the rest. You should have no
> problem running OS-9 / NitrOS-9 from Drivewire. Come on in, the water's
> fine! ;)
>
> -Mike
>
> On May 14, 2013, at 5:12 AM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Oh? So there is no editor apart from the standard OS-9?
>
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