[Coco] Supercomm for OS9

[Dave Philipsen]

On 3/20/2015 11:27 PM, Kip Koon wrote:
> 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!
Yeah, wow.  I was in my twenties when I wrote SuperComm.  Now I'm in my 
fifties!  I haven't touched a CoCo for years now but started searching 
things out on the web recently and found there's still a lot of support 
for it.  When I wrote it, BBSs were very popular and I wanted a fast, 
lean terminal program that would interpret ANSI codes and run under 
OS9.  Unfortunately, I couldn't find one so I set out to write it myself 
in my favorite language, assembler.
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> 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.
Well I just ordered a couple of the Altera Cyclone II  boards and a 
cheap generic programmer from eBay.  I've never programmed an FPGA 
before but have always wanted to play around with them a bit so I guess 
this is my chance.  I'd love to emulate a CoCo (maybe even a CoCo 3) 
with an SD card instead of a hard drive.  Might even be kind of cool to 
expand the emulator to 6309 instruction set and even play around with 
some ideas like 32-bit program counter and index registers...just an 
idea for fun!
> 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.
Sounds interesting.  Does Cubix have a TCP/IP stack?
> 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.
Thanks for the welcome.  I may have some questions later when I get into 
the Multicomp stuff!

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