[Coco] Ownership of NitOS-9

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

well I got so mad on the ED editor that I developed the MINTED. it's part
of NitrOS now. a minimalist screen text editor.



Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> On 7/11/2014 7:39 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
>
>> The first os9 user frustration comes from the inability to change the
>> shell
>> background color and the fact that black over green is not a good choice
>> when most of the people use monochrome.
>>
>> The second frustration is that everything you want to run needs a
>> different
>> setup: sierra games needs vdg drivers, multivue needs win drivers, and you
>> end up without memory soon.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> The screen colors choice is crap but I did manage to put the required
> DISPLAY 1B etc commands in the startup and I have it as a easy -to-look-at
> green on black. Why it's set to this, I don't know, there must be a reason
> I suppose.
>
> What wasted more of my time is using ED until I discovered BUILD and I
> just made a new startup file from scratch.
>
> I also needed to set the clock from 60hz to 50hz.
>
> The drivers are a cause for making something like a quick evaluation of a
> piece of software in to a major endevour for someone not a seasoned user.
>
> Too many rough edges and when I evaluate what the final outcome to be, I
> usually find that it's too slow or too ugly.
>
> That's when the RESET button comes in handy!  :)
>
> Nick
>
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