[Coco] Modern monitors that work on CoCo 3 and MM/1

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Oh good… that should be completely up to date, then. :-)


> On Mar 13, 2025, at 9:29 AM, Christopher R. Hawks via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:05:59 -0600
> "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
>> By “stock”, I assume you mean the version we forwarded to the online
>> repository (hopefully you don’t mean 3.3.0’s grfdrv - it’s slower and
>> more buggy than the current EOU release).
>> 
> 
>    Guess I should have said:
> 
>    The current (as of 12 March 2025) NitrOS9 repository builds a grfdrv
> identical to the one in the EOU image. I just set the flag, compiled,
> and replaced the grfdrv in the EOU image.
> 
> 
>> As an aside, all the drivers source code is included on the hard
>> drive image for EOU - we actually make EOU from EOU (sometimes on
>> real hardware - and mandatory for testing, and also in emulators
>> where we can overclock to assemble large projects quickly without
>> ever having to exit the NitrOS9 environment. I realize that that
>> method is not for everyone; but like Nick Marentes, it just doesn’t
>> “feel right” using modern cross assemblers, etc…  I lose interest
>> when all the retro feel is gone, which is what we had when we
>> originally wrote it in the 1990’s).
>>