[Coco] OS-9 is not for me

[Frank Pittel]

I don't use nitros at all either. I find it rather difficult to use and
understand. For me the coco is a toy I drag out every now and then to play
with and then pack up until the mood moves me to drag it out again. Over the
years the amount of time between the times I drag it out to play is getting
longer and longer and the amount of time I do use it is getting shorter.
That means everything I learn about nitros9 is forgotten in between use and
for some reason I find it harder and harder to pick up again when I try.

These days I simply use it with DECB and use drivewire to save the silly
little basic programs that don't really do anything useful but I like to
write anyhow! :-) For the last few years my big "project" was writing a
reasonably fast (for some definition of reasonably fast) routine for shuffling
a deck of cards. Before that I wrote the program I always wanted back in the
day for rolling dice for D&D. Funny thing is I don't have any card games in mind
to shuffle the cards for and I haven't played D&D since I was 20!

The Other Frank



On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 07:02:47AM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
> Hey, Nick.
> 
> I'm surprised at you that you would give up so easily. It is really
> not rocket science. It is after all an old OS.
> 
> By comparison, how much time did you spend looking for the elusive
> 256 colour mode?
> 
> I do agree that the documentation could be better for the cocosdc.
> I hope to be getting one in the near future (I think it's on its
> way!), and I'll see if I can nut it out.
> 
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
> 
> On 7/11/2014 6:22 AM, Nick Marentes wrote:
> >After hours of getting nowhere, I've made my decision.
> >
> >OS-9/NitrOS-9 had been removed off my SDC and filed in the "of no
> >use to me" folder.
> >
> >I sat down to learn it a week ago and all I've done is struggle to
> >understand it and make it work.
> >
> >Maybe I'm stupid but for me at least, I seem to get much further
> >with my RS-DOS and Assembly Language endevours.
> >
> >Sorry folks and thanks for everyone who has answered my many questions.
> >
> >Nick (frustrated OS-9 wannabe)
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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