[Coco] Window Writer for OS-9

[Bill Pierce]

Tim, I was not "OS9 bashing", I was "Window Writer & Basic09 bashing" LOL. In fact, OS9 is my favorite OS, I just wish different choices had been made and OS9 had become a major player in the OS game.
I currently have about 20 Coco OS9 projects going at the moment. I just don't care too much for Basic09. It's good for "quick and dirty" utilities that don't need much memory, or even a good way to learn OS9 coming from RSDOS BASIC (as I did). I worked exclusively in Basic09 for about a year and ran into memory problems in eveything I tried to do. Had I known then what I know now (hindsight and all that), I would've invested my time in learning C back then and would've gotten much further and maybe even had some commercial grade software. Now I write my software in C for the fun of it and to see just how far I can push OS9's limits, and so far, I've pushed them a great deal.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 11:30 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Window Writer for OS-9


Whats with all the os9 bashing?  I never had any of the problems I hear 
people speaking of here.  and although it has been a long time since I 
installed WW, I don't remember it being a big deal.  I do remember that 
you can't use a drive over 40 MB for the buffer file, other than that it 
worked great. I had/have coco hard drive systems set up an used a 
remoter terminal in the garage.

Any way, my 2cents worth.  You all are hurting my feelings! ha ha ha,

Tim

On 11/12/2014 4:16 PM, nickma2 at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> Ok. Thanks. Another one for the trash by the sounds of it.   :(
>
> It's a pity. Applications for OS-9 seem to fall into the... Too slow,
> too primitive or too difficult to install and run. Sometimes all of
> these at once.
>
> Shame. OS-9 is definately a powerfull OS. I do honestly believe this.
> It just falls over as far as quality applications and ease of use is
> concerned.
>
> Nick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> "CoCoList for Color
> Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> To:<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Cc:
> Sent:Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:03:21 -0500
> Subject:Re: [Coco] Window Writer for OS-9
>
>   Nick have fun setting up Window Writer. Probably the most bloated
> program for OS9 ever written. Once you figure out what all has to be
> merged with runb, where all the files go, and possibly even get it to
> run, you're out of memory.
>   I tried it once as the ads I saw looked good. I finally got it to run
> and the buffer was too small for anything serious due to the program
> taking up all the room. That's the way it goes with Basic09.... They
> should've used C or asm and virtual memory for buffers and it would've
> been half the size it is... and faster. I expected better from
> OwlWare.
>
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