[Coco] [Color Computer] Vcc OS-9 keyboard mapping

[Jerry Cantrill]

thanks Bill; Knowing that [END] was [BREAK], I tried [HOME] for [CLEAR] but, i tried again after your confirmation using /w1, /w4 and /w7. i was able to swap between them okay as advertised. so i looked a little closer to exactly what happened when i use /w5 and i think that /term and /w5 must be the same window on the pre-made dsk i am using. i can live with that while i am still re-learning. i think that i should have been suspicious with this 80 col black on green /term as it did not seem the same as i remembered as being a 32 col black on green from about 20+ years ago. (every body are always amazed that i have such a good memory - i just have to keep telling them it is my retrieval system that has all the faults).

as for the vhd, i will keep you in mind but for now i want to play with this some more before i advance too far. actually i would like to start with a stock OS-9 dsk(s) or a Nitros9 that is more closer to the orig OS-9 L2. i heard the earlier Nitros' were but i could only find this newer version 3.3 where i was looking.

again, thanks - jerry

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>Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:50:26 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
>Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Vcc OS-9 keyboard mapping
>To: coco at maltedmedia.com
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>@jwcantrill
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>Try pressing the [HOME] key on your PC keyboard for [CLEAR]. Also, the [END] key is the [BREAK] key
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>You will not be able to use the emulated hard drive due to NitrOS9 needs the "EmuDsk" driver and descriptors. If you need them, send me a private email and I can send you copies of them. Or I can make you a complete, pre-configured boot VHD if wanted :-)
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>There are other options as well... just send me an email and I can explain.
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>Bill Pierce
>"Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: jwcantrill <jwcantrill at earthlink.net>
>To: ColorComputer <ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Fri, Apr 18, 2014 7:40 pm
>Subject: [Coco] [Color Computer] Vcc OS-9 keyboard mapping
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>i have taken the plunge and installed Vcc v1.42 (don't need DW yet) on my laptop 
>and have booted up Nitros9 v3.3 and all is well. Set my time, dir'd my 80 track 
>disk image (cant seem to get the .vhd recognized, but hat is for a later date), 
>mdir'd what's loaded and see the /w# drivers so started up a shell i=/w5& and it 
>looks like it did it except when i went to press the [CLEAR} key to swap to 
>it... where is the [CLEAR] key?
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>i searched the net for but did not find anything to tell me what the Vcc Basic 
>or OS-9 keyboards maps to the "modern" laptop keys. Could someone point me in 
>the right direction?
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>-thanks, jerry