[Coco] OS9 68K, MM/1 software and questions

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Actually, I think Mark came up with those himself, using Bill Nobel’s old TC-9.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Dec 30, 2015, at 9:17 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
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> On 12/30/2015 08:46 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>> I know that Chris Burke did a version of RSDOS/BASIC for the TC-9 (it was a separate boot disk from the “normal” OS-9 and NitrOS-9 ones), but I didn’t run it too much (and it was a bit unreliable on my system, since I had bumped the clock speed from 1.78 to 2MHz with a clock crystal replacement, and hadn’t bothered trying to patch Chris’ code to slow down disk routines enough to make it fully reliable).
>> So, in that sense, the TC-9 was a “Coco 4”, although said BASIC (and OS-9) did need some patches for the 8 bit joysticks, and 8 bit sound.
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>> L. Curtis Boyle
>> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
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> Yeah.  I didn't know if that ever came to existence or was just vaporware.  Glad to learn it really existed.  My machine was never particularly stable, and apparently it had a problem with Disto's Super Controller II for some reason, which meant I would have had to spend even more money to get it set up with a hard drive, so it just never did much for me.  Maybe now I could get it set up with a CoCoSDC.  Mark Marlette keeps saying there were some mods that improved the stability.  If I could ever get some documentation on that I'd be game to get the thing running, for the sake of history if nothing else.
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> JCE
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