[Coco] OS-9 is not for me

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

I would just develop on PC....


Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> On 7/11/2014 8:31 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
>
>> Nick, I hate to see you give up, but I will admit that OS9 is not for
>> everyone. The thing that gets me the most is that you, being a software
>> developer, cannot grasp OS9's system concepts. To add to Bob's analogy..
>> How many hours did you spend figuring out the "side scrolling" modes of the
>> GIME for "Pop Star Pilot"? How many documents did you examine to learn the
>> modes?
>> Every book ever published on OS9 and it's use is available in the
>> archives and between them, covering "almost" every aspect of OS9.
>>
>>
> The point is, I had a job to do (split screen hardware scrolling) and I
> just needed to work out how to make the GIME do it.
>
> I didn't have to spend hours frustrating over why RS-DOS wouldn't work or
> why my Assembler wouldn't work or why the system  keeps crashing. I could
> get on with the goal of what I wanted to achieve. That's fun.
>
> Fixing the OS and tools is not fun.
>
> It was like wanting to build the house but having to spend a lot of time
> repairing all my tools first.
>
> It was not the dev environment I want.
>
> Nick
>
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