[Coco] Supercomm for OS9

[Kip Koon]

Hi Dave,
I want you to know that I love Supercomm09!  I used it to test out a connection with a friend's Internet BBS in NC with the telnet option!  It worked great!  I'm sure I'd be interested in whatever else you come up with!  Thanks for all the time you spent keying away on your Coco over the years creating Supercomm09!  It's Superb!  
I have 3 intermediate versions of the Multicomp that I used over the last couple years while James Moxham and Max Scane were developing the Multicomp PCB and associated CP/M & MP/M software they ported over using Grant Searle's Multicomp design as a guide.  After all the trouble shooting was done on the PCB, James created a final version of the Multicomp PCB that has not 1, but 2 - 512KB AS6C4008 512KB Static Ram chips on it, LCD Interface, SD Card Interface, VGA Video Connector, PS/2 Keyboard Connector, 2 - RS-232 9-pin Serial I/O ports,  DC Jack, Color Composite Video Out RCA Connector and a pseudo USB Keyboard connector.  The pseudo part of the USB means only USB keyboards that support the PS/2 protocol will work.  A small prototyping area is included and the capability to choose an 8-bit or 16-bit Data Bus for the 2 - 512KB Static Memory chips.  The link to Dr. Acula's web store to purchase a copy is
<http://www.smarthome.jigsy.com/fpga>
I have been quite involved with my Multicomps over the last couple of years.  All total, I have built 6 of them.  I have 3 final versions myself that I have built up.  Currently 2 are running the Z80 Multicomp with MP/M II v2.1 running on them  and the 3rd one has the 6809 Multicomp with Cubix OS running on it that I will be showing at this year's CoCoFEST.  There is a picture of James' Multicomp PCB fully populated on the store web page you can view.  
I've been reading up on Cubix and I must say Dave Dunfield has done a wonderful job with Cubix.  Cubix is a very capable Operating System.  The Cubix OS has many interesting features not necessarily found in 8-Bit Operating Systems.  The programming languages it comes with are a 6809 Assembler, RAID - Runtime Aid Interactive Debugger, MAPL - MicroAPL, Basic, C, and Forth, SIM80 and a tiny 3K MicroBasic Interpreter written in 8080 assembler that runs in the SIM80 - 8080 simulator.  It has may commands and utilities as well.  See the following site for more details as well as downloadable files for Cubix and an emulator of Dave's 6809 SBC that runs Cubix.  You can check out Cubix before you have any hardware to run it on!  The emulator runs in Linux.  In fact Dave wrote the emulator to use as a testing platform while he was writing Cubix.
Anyway I thought you might be interested in some of my projects I'm involved in.  Welcome to the Coco List!  Take care my friend.

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
<http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon>




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Dave Philipsen
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 9:43 AM
> To: Bill Pierce; CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Supercomm for OS9
> 
> Hey, thanks!  I'm sure I still have the source for v2.2 around somewhere although I don't have a computer right now to read OS9 disks.
> I do have two brand new CoCo3s in the basement but no accessories.  I'm thinking about building up a system again just for a hobby.
> Very interested in Grant Searle's Multicomp.  I'd like to build some sort of emulator that would run OS9.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/20/2015 7:04 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> > Dave, I have no idea where Randy Wilson may be, but the sources for SuperComm are in the NitrOS9 repository and have been since
> about 2002. The version in the repository supports ZModem.
> > Supercomm is in "nitros9/3rdparty/utils/supercomm/" folder.
> >
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
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> > Sent: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 1:17 am
> > Subject: [Coco] Supercomm for OS9
> >
> >
> > Hi, everybody.  I am looking for a guy named Randy K Wilson who took
> > over
> > maintenance of an OS-9 program called SuperComm.  It was a terminal
> > program
> > that I wrote many years ago and when I left the CoCo/OS-9 scene
> > I allowed him
> > to maintain the program for me.  I am trying to find out
> > if he might still have
> > the source code for the later version he released
> > that supported Zmodem.
> > Anyone know of him or where I might get in touch
> > with him?
> >
> > Dave Philipsen
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