[Coco] Another NitrOS-9 Newbie Question

[Stephen Pereira]

Hi Willard,

Thanks very much for the explanation.  The situation is much more complex that I imagined, as usual.

No, I am not the fellow who needed a 40 column display boot disk.  My system is able to show an 80 column display, albeit a bit fuzzy.

smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
KB1SXE


> On Feb 23, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 06:42:38PM -0500, Stephen Pereira wrote:
> 
>> Here's my latest newbie question: If I have NitrOS-9 installed and
>> running, should I be able to run applications that were originally
>> designed to run on Tandy OS-9?
> 
> I can't think of any OS-9 applications that won't work under NitrOS-9.
> Some require a little patching, however.
>> 
>> Some of the application .DSK files appear that they want to be the
>> boot disk.  Dynacalc seems to be one of these.  I am pretty certain
> 
> Now, Dynacalc is an interesting problem... You see, it's originally a
> Level 1 program, and that's an entirely different kettle of fish! I'd
> say 90% of Level 1 programs work fine under Level II, but Dynacalc
> isn't one.
> 
> It requires patches to run on any screen but the 32-col VDG text
> screen, and possibly to run under LII at all! If the boot disk is
> Level II, then dynacalc has (hopefully) been patched. If it hasn't
> then you get to explore the wonderful world of downloading patches
> from RTSI, figuring out what patch program the patch wants, and how to
> use that program! :-) 
> 
>> application to load and run?
> 
> Humm, for Dynacalc itself? If it's been patched for LII, just put
> sys/dterm in your /dd/sys and execute dynacalc. If it hasn't been
> patched, it won't know how to control your screen and will look for
> /d0/dataterm (or something like that. It's been a long time!)
> 
> Humm, you're the guy who needed the 40-column boot disk, right? I
> don't actually know if the patched dynacalc supports that screen...
> 
> Willard
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