[Coco] Tandy OS-9 Level 2

Bill Nobel b_nobel at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 10 13:17:36 EST 2015


As for the S-Video, use a adapter to get to composite.  It isn’t RGB but, can’t expect more.

OS-9/Nitros9 does not need 80 columns it runs in any format.

I use Drivewire & Bill Pierce’s MShell heavily, between My Mac, PC and the server, ALL my drives are centralized.

Bill Nobel

> On Jan 10, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I’m curious about Tandy OS-9 Level 1 and 2.
> 
> Even though I have Chris Hawke’s RGB-to-S-Video adapter, I do not have a monitor that will accept S-Video as an input, so I have another S-Video-to-VGS adapter going into a Dell LCD monitor.  Hence, the 80 column display on my CoCo 3 is pretty difficult to read.
> 
> Does Tandy OS-9 Level 1 and/or Level 2 require the display to be 80 columns, or can I use the default 32 column display (or maybe only the 40 column display)?
> 
> Further, since I am using HDBDOS and Drivewire, is there a .DSK file for Tandy OS-9 Level 1 or 2 that I can use with Drivewire, or would I need to use a physical floppy disk drive?
> 
> Thanks very much, in advance, for your attention and response!
> 
> smp
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> Stephen M. Pereira
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> KB1SXE
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