N Public Message Message # 1398 *MM1 TECH Echo* To : All From : Stephen Seneker Subject : Monitor for MM/1? Date : 94/12/06 23:49:00 Next Reply is Message 1404 Could anyone suggest a good 15" monitor for use with the MM/1? I'm curious to know wht other people are using, so as to make plans for when it becomes necessary to replace my CM-8(soon). SSS --- QuickBBS 2.80 Ovr (Zeta-1) * Origin: The Byte Board Bristol, Tn Where America Is Moving (1:3642/501) Public Message Message # 1404 *MM1 TECH Echo* To : Stephen Seneker From : Warren Hrach Subject : Re: Monitor for MM/1? Date : 94/12/07 17:45:50 Previous Reply is Message 1398 On Tuesday, December 6th, 1994 - Stephen Seneker wrote: SS> Could anyone suggest a good 15" monitor for use with the MM/1? SS> I'm curious to know wht other people are using, so as to make SS> plans for when it becomes necessary to replace my CM-8(soon). SS> SSS Stephen, I just talked to Paul Myles about his NEC 2A or something, seems it has a problem showing the top two lines of the screen. Maybe by now he has figured it out. I am useing a NEC 3D I purchased refurbished. It is very sharp and colors are fantastic but I don't think any of these are available anymore. There are Maganvox 8cm515 monitors made for Atari and Amiga machines but don't have a model number to give you. Tthes are supposed to directly replace a 8cm515. David Graham announced he found a source of some refurbished Sony RGB Analog monitors that work very well. James Jones got one and is very pleased with its performance. Warren --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: Ocean Beach BBS 619-224-4878 MM1 TECH moderator (1:202/745) N Public Message Message # 1196 *OS9 ECHO* To : All From : Warren Hrach Subject : Pentium facts ! Date : 94/12/02 16:28:16 Followin is a post from the cocolist ------------------- cut here ---------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 12:58:40 PST Reply-To: Chris Burke Sender: COCO - Tandy Color Computer List From: Chris Burke Subject: Pentium jokes... X-To: COCO@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list COCO A Canadian colleague of mine sent me this humor piece today... From: Scholefield-CCS005 Chris on Fri, Dec 2, 1994 12:03 PM Subject: FW: Pentium jokes... To: WDG Socialine-BRC9; WDG Socialine-WA16 I thought some of you might appreciate this to brighten up your weekend ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- For those out of the loop, errors have been identified in the FDIV (floating point divide) command of Intel's Pentium chip. Apparently Intel has known about this for some time and chose to keep it quiet while they designed new chips. Intel has not announced any plans to replace the bad chips already distributed, and has instead released a press release saying that the problem shouldn't bother most people. - ---------------- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel From: dmethvin@aol.com (DMethvin) Subject: Pentium Bug Humor :-) Date: 29 Nov 1994 09:15:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3bfd1v$g8g@newsbf01.news.aol.com> Q&A: THE PENTIUM FDIV BUG Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people. Q: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant? A: A mad scientist. Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on Pentiums? A: Warning label. Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium? A: Successive approximations. Q: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply is to 1) Divide 2) ROUND 3) RANDOM 4) On a Pentium, all of the above A: Number 4. Q: What algorithm did Intel use in the Pentium's floating point divider? A: "Life is like a box of chocolates." (Source: F. Gump of Intel) Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586? A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got 585.999983605. Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754 and 854 for floating point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft designed using a Pentium, what is the correct pronunciation of "IEEE"? A: Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee! TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.9999973251 It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug 8.9999163362 It's Close Enough, We Say So 7.9999414610 Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes 6.9999831538 You Don't Need to Know What's Inside 5.9999835137 Redefining the PC--and Mathematics As Well 4.9999999021 We Fixed It, Really 3.9998245917 Division Considered Harmful 2.9991523619 Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point? 1.9999103517 We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws 0.9999999998 The Errata Inside - ---------- From: achun@mail2.sas.upenn.edu (Alex Chun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: THE TOP TEN REASONS TO BUY A PENTIUM MACHINE :-) Date: 29 Nov 1994 05:25:54 GMT Message-ID: <3bee12$mu0@netnews.upenn.edu> THE TOP TEN REASONS TO BUY A PENTIUM MACHINE ============================================ 10. YOUR CURRENT COMPUTER IS TOO ACCURATE 9. YOU WANT TO GET INTO THE GUINNESS BOOK AS "OWNER OF MOST EXPENSIVE PAPERWEIGHT" 8. MATH ERRORS ADD ZEST TO LIFE 7. YOU NEED AN ALIBI FOR THE I.R.S. 6. YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT 5. YOU'VE ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE A PLAINTIFF 4. THE "INTEL INSIDE" LOGO MATCHES YOUR DECOR PERFECTLY 3. YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT CPU OVERHEATING 2. YOU GOT A GREAT DEAL FROM JPL And the #1 reason to buy a Pentium machine: 1. IT'LL PROBABLY WORK ----- End Included Message ----- --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: Ocean Beach BBS 619-224-4878 (1:202/745) Public Message Message # 1202 *OS9 ECHO* To : Mike Guzzi From : Jim Vestal Subject : Auto-Answer Date : 94/11/24 11:13:00 > On Thursday, November 17th, 1994 - Christian Miller wrote: > > CM> I thought I also saw in the SACIA docs, that you could change a byte > CM> with xmode, and SACIA will do the switch internally. Did I dream > CM> this, or was it for real? > > yes, SACIA has a system call to return the status register without > directly peeking for it. If you activate the bit with xmode that > indicates reversed pins what happens is the system call will interchnage > the DSR and CD bits. SO.... if you reverse pins 6 & 8 on the rs232 cable > and activate this bit, the cd status will be returned as the CD status > and NOT AS DSR. RiBBS however also has the same reversal for its config > file. so if you indicate to sacia you have a reversed cable and actually > have the reversed cable, you must tell ribbs the cable is NORMAL. > because ribbs will look for DSR instead. (its like canceling the reverse > with two reverse... two negatives make a positive thingy) > > with the included xmode in sacia. (i renamed it to zmode btw) bit 7 of > the XTP byte indicates reversed DSR/CD. set bit 7 high to indicate > reversed cable. I renamed that xmode to ymode... I still use the original xmode for some things such as printer controls. Jim ... MS-DOS, just say no. --- FMail 0.94 * Origin: Snapshot's Bedroom BBS, Live Oak, Ca. (916)695-3101 (1:119/115) Public Message Message # 1206 *OS9 ECHO* To : Mike Liegler From : Bill Covert Subject : Re: Selling Out Date : 94/11/30 14:02:00 >>On 27 Nov 94, Mike Liegler said to All something like: >> I Have Decided to Sell My CoCo Stuff, (Part by Part - No Longer as >> 2 Set's). Any Reasonable Offer Will Be Considered, for Any Part of >> it. If Anyone Wants me to Re-Post the List of CoCo Stuff, Just >> Holler. I Have 2 512K CoCo's and There Related Hardware, Books, Mike, If you could repost what you have for sale I would appreciate it! I am in desperate need of a 512 coco oops.. a MPI and an RS-232 pak....! Let me know what you are asking for them! Thanks!!! --- AcBBS V3.0-RIP * Origin: The Fun House BBS (607) 732-6566 (1:260/830) Public Message Message # 1207 *OS9 ECHO* To : Mike Harwell From : Bill Covert Subject : Sorry! Date : 94/11/30 14:12:00 Mike, I have been off this thing for a couple of months or so, and haven't been able to contact you.. I seem to have lost your address, and really need to get this interface out to you as promised.. If you could post your address or give me a call voice, I'll make sure this gets out to you as soon as possible..... Sorry!!!! --- AcBBS V3.0-RIP * Origin: The Fun House BBS (607) 732-6566 (1:260/830) Public Message Message # 1210 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Jerry Michelson Subject : Re: TELECOM PROBLEM Date : 94/11/29 19:28:00 >>On 25 Nov 94, Ron Bull said to Alex Forrest something like: >> system and now whenever I turn everything on, I get the HS, RD,SD,TR,MR ligh >> all on. If I power up with the RS-232 pak out of the MPI everything is norm >> (i.e., the only light on the modem is the MR light. BUT if I put the pak in Ron...I know that I'll probably have 20 people telling me I'm wrong, but I had the same problem when firing up my whole system via a power strip instead of one piece at a time. The power strip turn-on works for some systems, but for some reason when I fire up the bbs machine all at once, all the modem lights go on as you mentioned (most of the time this happens that is). I now turn the modem on first, HD power supply next, MPI third, and then the Coco (doesn't matter when you turn the monitor on of course). What I'm trying to say though is that some modems don't seem to function properly when turning all the Coco stuff on at once. I have 2 different brand 14.4k modems and the older one (The Complete PC Turbo Plus) is the one which gives me the problem mentioned above. My Hayes Accura doesn't seem to mind being turned on with everything else...go figure. This may not work for you, but give it a try ok? --- AcBBS V3.0 Beta * Origin: Carolina Connection - Coco/OS9 - (803) 243-4061 (1:3639/53.1) Public Message Message # 1211 *OS9 ECHO* To : Erik Jan Tromp From : Jerry Michelson Subject : Re: RiBBS vs. AcBBS Date : 94/11/29 19:40:00 >>On 25 Nov 94, Erik Jan Tromp said to Nelson Howard something like: >> Wow! You _are_ going to be busy, aren't you? Just out of curiousity, >> are you planning to implement ZedZap, ZedZip, or both session methods? I don't know how he's going to do it Erik, but I wouldn't put it above Nelson :). He got the Coco to emulate Rip to the caller when people said it couldn't be done...I don't have all my Rip menus finished yet, but Nelson's board (the Crystal Palace) can be navigated with a mouse and Ripterm and you can stroll around mine on a few menus that way...nifty stuff...and all done on the Coco/OS9! --- AcBBS V3.0 Beta * Origin: Carolina Connection - Coco/OS9 - (803) 243-4061 (1:3639/53.1) Public Message Message # 1222 *OS9 ECHO* To : Mark Johnson From : Steve Batson Subject : Re: OS-9 68K/80X86 Date : 94/11/29 16:16:00 -=> Quoting Mark Johnson to Steve Batson <=- > Mark, > How much did your OS-9000 for the Intel Platform cost? > Do you run it on a seperate partition and change the active > partition to Boot DOS or OS-9000? MJ> I originally bought the older version of OS-9000 for $350 when they MJ> were introducing the newer version with the Ultra ANSI C compiler and I MJ> got the older version with K&R C about a year ago. I then got my whole MJ> system stolen about 10 months ago and just bought upgrades about 2 MJ> months ago for $250 which included the Ultra ANSI C compiler MJ> (originally $200) and talked them into selling me just the books again MJ> for $100 more. Now I've added G-Windows for $200. So I guess I've MJ> invested about $900 which isn't too bad considering the last I heard MJ> that OS-9000 developement system (Which I have) goes for about $1200 MJ> without G-Windows. But I'm not sure if it's still that high. I heard MJ> they were going to lwer the price awhile back since they seemed to MJ> sell alot of copies when they had the $350 special on it. MJ> I did partion off my hard drive for both DOS and OS-9000 but MJ> the docs say it can be all OS-9000 on this version (Version 1.3.1). It MJ> has a little bootfile to let me choose a DOS or OS-9000 boot when I MJ> power up/reset. or I can change the active partin to OS-9000 and boot MJ> DOS from floppy. or set DOS to active partition and boot OS-9000 from MJ> floppy. I choose the bootfile so I don't have to mess with the MJ> floppies. -=Mark=- MJ> -!- GEcho 1.00 MJ> ! Origin: Cloud-09 BBS \ Longview, WA \206-425-7504\ (1:3403/3) MJ> (1:3403/3) At that price, I'd have to say NOT! If DOS And/or Windows did not do the job for me on the PC, I'd go with LINIX (Freeware UNIX for the PC) which seems to be getting quite a following. I was just curious, I know very little about OS9 and mostly use RS-DOS when Im on the COCO. Thanks for the info. :) Steve ... I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.11 --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The PowerLine BBS - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21) Public Message Message # 1228 *OS9 ECHO* To : Kerry Kowalski From : Dave Kelly Subject : Re: XT-Rom Date : 94/11/30 17:15:00 KK> DK> 17,434 free sectors on the 20mg. KK> DK> 157,354 free sectors on the 40mg. KK> DK> --------- KK> KK> These numbers ^ don't add up. If you have 17,434 sec = 20mg KK> (aprox.) KK> Then 40mg would be 34,xxx (aprox). I did not elaborate enough. The key words are 'free', meaning 'not used'. Since I got into OS9 in 84 I have always been a floppy person. Using a 5.25 and 3.5 inch drives. Now that I have hard drives I am awed at the amount of space for storage without changing disk. The 17,434 sectors amounts to 6 3.5 inch disks. With all the downloading I do, I would go 3 months before filling the that much space. One hundred 3.5 inch disks lasted me 5 and 1/2 years and I gave a 1/3 away for different projects. Anyway my 20 mg drive was allocated 78.720 sectors time 256 bytes == 20152320 bytes. My 'dmode' is close to yours. I see that you have an 'interleave' of 16. Mine is 22. Have you tried any number smaller? Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * Press any key to continue, Any other key to abort. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1229 *OS9 ECHO* To : Allen Huffman From : Dave Kelly Subject : Come On Down Date : 94/11/30 17:24:00 Have ya'll made a desision which weekend ya'll are comming down. Looking forward to getting together. Tim Jones over in Austin left me a message that he would try to drive down. Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * My memory runnuth over, QUICK get me another MEG. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1230 *OS9 ECHO* To : Terry Goode From : Dave Kelly Subject : CPU chip Date : 94/11/30 17:27:00 I noticed in the stuff I got from you a 6809 CPU chip. Do you know if it is good. Did it come out of one of the Coco's in that group? Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * Nature has out guessed us. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1232 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Curtis Boyle Subject : Re: SPEED Date : 94/11/30 09:10:00 First, in SACIA, set your receive buffer to as big of a size as you have memory for ($F, if possible). Second, in Supecomm, make sure Auto-Zmodem (Options menu) is OFF. It slows things down for screen updates. Are you losing characters on downloads, or on screen? The screen updates in Supercomm are not all that optomized, but the downloads are a bit better. You can set your BBS to TTY terminal emulation & the same in Supercomm if the screen updates are your worst problem, as it is the quickest routine in Supercomm. Also, install Alan DeKok's 1 byte IRQ speedup patch, posted on this echo. It should help a bit, too. --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: The North Village,28.8,OS/2,(306)384-0836 (1:140/26.0) Public Message Message # 1240 *OS9 ECHO* To : David Graham From : Lute Mullenix Subject : G-Windows vs K-Windows Date : 94/12/01 07:11:00 David, Only got part of your message, but would guess that you mentioned that there were a lot more writeing stuff for K-Windows. Which makes sence since there are more MM/1s out there. Is there any thing out there that the two gents writing for G-Windows have up for grabs? Have been giving some thought into learning to do some programming my self so maybe you may have three out there doing some stuff. But at any rate, it would be a while before I had anything to contribute, I've never done any programming, kinda hard to believe for a guy who's been using OS9 for the last six years huh. But from what I have seen of the KiX, and heard of the MM/1, I see no reason that there can't be as full blown soft ware on OS9 and any DOS or Mac machine. I always hear how nice OS9 is for programming, but where is the software? I'd gladly pay for a ProCom, or Commo, for G-Windows, and put in overtime for a Works type of thing. Maybe a lot of this will change when Mike gets 2.4 going, because I have grabbed some files that won't run Cuz I don't have 2.4. But it wold be nice to get something that would dazzle me. DynaStar and Ved are good editors, but not too dazzleing. Well enough whining for now. I do what to stick with OS9, but would like to have a little more to work with. >Lute< --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: LakeCity BBS * V.FC/4 Gigs * 605-886-0849 * (1:288/19) Public Message Message # 1241 *OS9 ECHO* To : Erik Jan Tromp From : Alan Dekok Subject : Re: zmodem @ 9600 baud Date : 94/11/30 10:55:00 EJT> Been using v3.24 here since June/94. Haven't kept track of cps EJT> rates, EJT> but they've worked flawlessly under Nitro v1.16 (using Sacia @ 9600 EJT> bps EJT> with h/w flow control enabled & xtp=04). OK, I don't have hardware flow control enabled, and I've got xtp=0f. The main problem with 19.2k so far is that receiving large files pretty much shuts the computer down, leaving minimal time to process the data. I haven't had any problem at 9600 baud, though. Alan DeKok. --- Maximus-CBCS v1.02 * Origin: Micro80 Computer Club of Ottawa BBS (1:163/306) Public Message Message # 1242 *OS9 ECHO* To : Stephen Seneker From : Alan Dekok Subject : Re: NFM for Level II Date : 94/11/30 11:00:00 SS> Looking for NFM for level II? I'd like to create a serial network SS> for my OS-9 and OSK machines. However I lack NFM for level II... SS> Can anyone offer information on NFM? OS-9 Networking? Do you have NFM for your OSK box? A version of NFM for the Coco was rumored, but I've never heard of it being commercially available. Alan DeKok. --- Maximus-CBCS v1.02 * Origin: Micro80 Computer Club of Ottawa BBS (1:163/306) Public Message Message # 1243 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Alan Dekok Subject : Re: TELECOM PROBLEM Date : 94/11/30 11:03:00 RB> I'm using Supercomm and set it to 9600 baud. I also set /t2 to 9600 RB> baud. I lose characters. It does the same with 19200 only worse. I RB> have the SACIA drive in my boot. Now how do I get this new modem to RB> work at either 9600 or the 14.4? Hehe, you don't. The problem is not the modem, as it can do 14.4k just fine. The problem is the software you're running on the Coco end of things, i.e. probably stock OS-9. With NitrOS-9 v1.16, reliable 9600 baud works, and I'm typing this over a 19.2k link right now with v1.21 (no lost characters) But... v1.21 won't be released for a bit, as we have to do large amounts of beta testing. See, each Coco has such an individual personality that things which work for me & Curtis have problems on other machines (sigh). But _all_ Cocos should be able to do 19.2k no problem, once we discover the 'magic code' required to run v1.21 on all Cocos. Alan DeKok. p.s. It's _not_ a software problem. I've verified locally that a boot disk which works for me won't boot on an 'identical' coco. There probably are, however, software fixes to get around hardware problems. Without access to buggy Cocos, these software fixes are difficult to find. --- Maximus-CBCS v1.02 * Origin: Micro80 Computer Club of Ottawa BBS (1:163/306) Public Message Message # 1244 *OS9 ECHO* To : Nelson Howard From : John Wight Subject : Re: Searching... Date : 94/12/01 07:07:00 On 25 Nov 94 05:41am, Nelson Howard wrote to All: NH> Hello everyone... First of all, I would like it to be known that I NH> realize this is probably NOT the conference to ask about this but with NH> the similarities in operating systems, I figured there may be someone NH> out there that could offer some info. NH> and is a TRUE UNIX(tm) operating system complete with the newest UUCP Well, I would be alot more forgiving about this operating system since it is alot more similar than MS-DOS. As a community of COCO and OS-9 users, I would like to see us help each other as we can with other operating systems (as my COCO system still sits next to my MS-DOS/Windows machines). What does everyone else think? --- FMail/386 0.98 * Origin: OS9 Moderator in Honolulu, HI 1-808-735-3776 (1:345/200) Public Message Message # 1254 *OS9 ECHO* To : Lute Mullenix From : Barry Bond Subject : COULDN'T FIND ROGUE Date : 94/12/01 07:32:00 Hi Lute! I looked throughout the DL12 OS9 library this morning (I do a once-a-month check of the data libraries). I looked through the whole library, and did a bro/key:rogue/lib:all and got "No files." Apparently, it isn't there? Or maybe the name didn't suggest to me that it was about Rogue? Barry Sent by Blair Leduc's Scribe, running on Barry_Control, OS9/68030 V2.3 Barry L. Bond, Software Engineer | SAIC bond@aphst1.saic.com <- work | 3045 Technology Parkway barryb@bilver.oau.org <- personal | Orlando, FL 32826-3299 72235,1530 (CIS) <- personal | Work: (407) 282-6700, Ext. 377 --- ~ Scribe/OSK ~ Reversing entropy is everyone's buisness. --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Cornucopia TBBS - Winter Park, FL - 407/645-4929 (1:363/18) Public Message Message # 1257 *OS9 ECHO* To : Charles Scanlon From : Christian Miller Subject : MM/1 Shipments Date : 94/11/30 21:08:00 CS> Did you ever get those 5.25 dd diskettes I mailed? I could mail CS> some more if CS> you did nt or if you need more. Yes, I'm sorry. They're just sitting here waiting to be mailed. I'll try to get them out this Friday. (12/01/94) Christian Miller --- * Scribe 4.0 * Can't RUN out... Luke 9:25 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263) Public Message Message # 1258 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Christian Miller Subject : MPI PROBLEM? Date : 94/11/30 22:14:00 RB> wasn't the MPI, it was a blown Quad Line Drive (1488) chip that The 1488 was the *SAME* chip that went in my RS-232 pak as well! How did you fix yours? All I did to mine was sever the ground pin from the old chip, and piggy backed the new chip on top of it. Then I soldered all the pins together (with the old ground outside of the new ground). As been working like a charm for over a year now! Christian Miller --- * Scribe 4.0 * As a former fetus, I oppose abortion! ("Thou shalt not --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263) Public Message Message # 1259 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Christian Miller Subject : Your Disks Date : 94/11/30 22:14:00 I'll try to get your disks out on Dec. 02 or 3rd. I think I'm going to need your address again. Christian Miller --- * Scribe 4.0 * Can't DROP out... Luke 9:25 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263) Public Message Message # 1260 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Christian Miller Subject : SPEED Date : 94/11/30 22:14:00 RB> characters. When it's at 19200, I loose alot more! Any ideas? This has been a big problem with us OS-9ers. Make sure you have SuperComm v2.2, VRN and Nil, and set your /t2 to: nam=T2 mgr=SCF ddr=SACIA hpn=07 hpa=FF68 upc=00 bso=01 dlo=00 eko=01 alf=01 nul=00 pau=00 pag=18 bsp=08 del=18 eor=0D eof=1B rpr=09 dup=19 psc=17 int=03 qut=05 bse=08 ovf=07 par=02 bau=06 xon=11 xof=13 col=50 row=18 xtp=08 wnd=08 val= sty= cpx= cpy= fgc= bgc= bdc= There is also a new patch to os9p1 from Alan DeKok. Use modpatch for this routine: l os9p1 c 0d80 17 8c v Also, for downloading (if you want to use ZModem) get the new version. It's 3.24 or somthing like that. Some people also suggest shutting off all the "fancy" commands on your modem. That means, no compression or error control. The only thing to keep on is flow control. I also found that to keep downloading errors down, use a ramdisk, and boot supercomm with a 40k buffer or so. (It defaults to a 2k buffer.) Hope this helps. I keep everything on, on my modem (9600) and I only lose a few characters here a there. And I lose them in pairs of 2. Also, I think you can change the xtp value higher for a bigger SACIA buffer. Christian Miller --- * Scribe 4.0 * God created Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Eagle's Nest Trading Post (1:3603/263) Public Message Message # 1261 *OS9 ECHO* To : Gene Clifton From : Ed Jones Subject : Grible Slagens Date : 94/11/29 10:45:00 Are you generally running the same hardware and BBS software you used in New Orleans? Why am I asking? If Norm Rheaume leaves Mobile, I may not be able to find a local BBS that is Fido mail compatable with my RiBBS. I think that SOME of the 20 or so local Fido boards could be set to work with me, but they generally don't want to bother with it, they don't have enough technical knowledge about their oun systems, or they are not really interested in getting involved with mail service to my board operating at only 2400 baud.....................Ed Jones --- RiBBS v2.02 * Origin: CoCo-Plus of Mobile Alabama 205-341-1616 (1:3625/461) Public Message Message # 1262 *OS9 ECHO* To : Dave Kelly From : Terry Goode Subject : CPU chip Date : 94/12/01 05:23:00 i dont think i would keep a bad one,hell plug it in and lets find out. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1268 *OS9 ECHO* To : Curtis Boyle From : Ron Bull Subject : SPEED Date : 94/12/01 22:53:00 Will try the suggestions! Thanks, I'll let you know if it works! --- FLAME v1.1/b * Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101) Public Message (Rec) Message # 1269 *OS9 ECHO* To : John A Donaldson From : Dave Kelly Subject : Re: IDE & Multifunction Date : 94/12/01 21:39:00 John, Would you post again the address for the company that is advertising the IDE controlors? Thanks. Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * Wave a blue towel at the next space ship you see. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1270 *OS9 ECHO* To : Curtis Boyle From : Dave Kelly Subject : Drive interleave Date : 94/12/01 21:45:00 CB> Unfortunately, the only way to do it that I know of is to format CB> it & do a CB> MEGAREAD (Bruce Isted utility to read 1 MB from a device), CB> time it, and try it again with a different interleave CB> value. You can shorten this process by DMODE'ing your drive CB> to have the bare # of cylinders that will give you >1MB, Thanks for the information, I will try this. Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * If your tagline doesn't fit in 57 characters, then --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1271 *OS9 ECHO* To : Tim Jones From : Dave Kelly Subject : OCN library Date : 94/12/01 21:53:00 TJ> You lost me Dave. I have alot of the library, soon to have TJ> more as I'm transfering files from my coco to the bbs. I TJ> can't circulate the disks I don't have. However, if I could TJ> get them I could update them to include any new files and TJ> start them circulating again. I apoligize, my question was a little short without any background. Your paragraph above says everything I should have. Brian O'Hagan has the disks now and is sending them to John Morris. John has instructions and your address to send them to you. If I remember correctly when I saw the disks last year there were 78 - 5.25 inch disks. TJ> Probably, but I'll go back and review it. I think he was TJ> interested in receiving the OCN files... Correct. Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * I know how to copy disks. Where's the Xerox machine? --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1272 *OS9 ECHO* To : Tim Jones From : Dave Kelly Subject : Get Together Date : 94/12/01 21:55:00 TJ> TJ> I would like to try! Let me know what weekend. Thanks. TJ> Will do. Leave me an address again and I will send you a map how to get to my house so we don't wait til the last minute. Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * G O D Giver Of Data. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1275 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Jerry Michelson Subject : Re: SPEED Date : 94/11/30 16:52:00 >>On 28 Nov 94, Ron Bull said to All something like: >> I just got a 14.4 modem. I have SACIA in my boot. I'd like to take advanta >> of the speed. I set Supercomm to 9600 and 19200. Both times I lost >> characters. When it's at 19200, I loose alot more! Any ideas? What version of Supercomm are you using Ron, and if it is version 2.2 have you applied the patches for high speed operation that are mentioned in the documentation for the program (at least the docs I got with 2.2)? --- AcBBS V3.0 Beta * Origin: Carolina Connection - Coco/OS9 - (803) 243-4061 (1:3639/53.1) Public Message Message # 1276 *OS9 ECHO* To : Lute Mullenix From : Chris Perrault Subject : Ek20 Date : 94/11/29 00:00:00 > Allen, > > Don't know if you would be interested, but... > I would let my KiX 20 (same thing as EK20) compleat with > mini tower case, MGA board, with G-Windows, 4 meg of RAM, > DynaStar OSK, Sculpter, and some other stuff, and Super VGA > monitor. Basicly everything but the hard drive,for around > $1600. > > It's about 6 mo old. Just something to think about. > > >Lute< > > --- Maximus/2 2.02 > * Origin: LakeCity BBS * V.FC/4 Gigs * 605-886-0849 * (1:288/19) Just out of Curiousity, why do want to sell the 020? If I had 1600.00 I would snatch that up in an instant, in case someone is wondering if that is a good price. I'll bet you paid upwards of $3000.00 for all that! >Chris< ... Ca. Raisins murdered, cereal killer suspected! ___ ADQwk/OS-9 32a --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Merr.ValleyUsersGroupBBS,No.Andover,Ma.(508)682-6263 (1:324/117) Public Message Message # 1277 *OS9 ECHO* To : David Graham From : Chris Perrault Subject : Hazelwood Basic Date : 94/11/29 00:20:00 > Chris, it is a really neat compiled Basic. Inline ASM and much more. > suitable for developing device drivers. Hope to see more of it soon, > as I'll be selling it for Mike if I can.... > --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v0.5f > * Origin: The Sierra Hotel! BBS/Enid, Oklahoma (405) 242-5332 (1:19/47) Yep that sounds like the one I was reading about. They must have changed the name from 'Basix' to Hazelwood Basic unless it isn't really even titled yet. I hope this does get completed. It's exactly the type of software we need in the OS-9 Market. Programming tools and languages are what I would consider #1 priority. >Chris< ... I can't believe I wrote the whole thing. ___ ADQwk/OS-9 32a --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Merr.ValleyUsersGroupBBS,No.Andover,Ma.(508)682-6263 (1:324/117) Public Message Message # 1278 *OS9 ECHO* To : David Graham From : Chris Perrault Subject : G-Windows vs K-Windows Date : 94/11/29 00:28:00 > Well, it seems that Tim Johns and J. Stephen Carville are the only ones > writing for G-Windows that I know of, where there are many more writing > --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v0.6a > * Origin: The Sierra Hotel! BBS/Enid, Oklahoma (405) 242-5332 (1:19/47) I imagine $400.00+ price difference has something to do with that tho. I figure that if Kwindows is successfull, it will only help Gwindows also, since it is bringing software into the community(thus keeping the users). Kwindows software continues, eventually people are going to start getting their hands on Gwindows. I hope that both packages will eventually be available on all systems. >Chris< ... All resistance is useless (If < 1 ohm) ___ ADQwk/OS-9 32a --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Merr.ValleyUsersGroupBBS,No.Andover,Ma.(508)682-6263 (1:324/117) Public Message Message # 1294 *OS9 ECHO* To : Christian Miller From : Alan Dages Subject : Your Disks Date : 94/12/02 21:14:00 > Alan, I do not believe I ever received your disks. I have Charles > Scanlon's (he sent a bunch), and I have Ron Bull's sitting right here > (he sent me five). I don't have yours sitting here. If I told you I > had received them, my apologies, and I'll send you one of my disks. I only sent three or four, way back when... since then I have seen people sending LARGE quantities of disks. I'll send some more if you will confirm your address. I have it as 5170 6th Ave N. #2, St Petersburg, Fl. 33710. ... New Mail not found. Start whine-pout sequence? (Y/N) ___ ADQwk/OS-9 32a --- GrayQwkMail 2.1 * Origin: ACS Inc. BBS 404-636-2991 (1:133/510) Public Message Message # 1295 *OS9 ECHO* To : Dave Kelly From : Thomas Kocourek Subject : Re: C code help Date : 94/12/02 23:19:00 Did you remember to declare fopen() as returning a pointer to FILE?? FILE *fopen(), *sp; /* example */ --- QuickBBS 2.76a * Origin: ACS Inc. BBS 404-636-2991 (1:133/510) Public Message Message # 1296 *OS9 ECHO* To : Steve Batson From : Thomas Kocourek Subject : Re: OS-9 68K/80X86 Date : 94/12/03 00:01:00 The rumor mill has suggested that MW might do it again, sell OS9000 at a lower price. Perhaps someone "in the know" can substantiate or deny this rumor. --- QuickBBS 2.76a * Origin: ACS Inc. BBS 404-636-2991 (1:133/510) Public Message Message # 1299 *OS9 ECHO* To : Dave Kelly From : John A Donaldson Subject : Re: IDE & Multifunction Date : 94/12/03 23:29:00 Dave, That was JDR Micro Devices. The catalog discription said that the 8 bit IDE controller would work with all IDE drives. What will be needed for OS9 LII is a driver and discripter to run it. You should be able to use a B&B interface. They also have a 8-bit dual serial, parallel, & game port card too. From what it said the serial ports are the hi-speed type. Both cards were under $100, so are within any COCO3 OS9 user. John D. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1304 *OS9 ECHO* To : Mark Johnson From : Tim Jones Subject : OCN Files Date : 94/12/02 19:36:00 Hello Mark, Replying to a message of Mark Johnson to Tim Jones: MJ> Hello Tim, MJ> Dave Kelley told me to get ahold of you about the OCN files. MJ> I'm running an DOS/OS-9000 system so I can read both OS-9 and DOS MJ> formats. If I can get these sent to me or I can mail off some disks MJ> It would be greatly appreciated. let me know if/how to go about MJ> getting them. -=Mark=- I can't send you the entire library as I'm waiting to receive it. I can send them to you after I get them if that is agreeable with Dave... he seems to be the one in charge of tracking the disks. I can set you up to receive any new files as they come into the OCN since I an the distrbution point at the moment. Let me know if you are interested and I'll fill you in on the details. Later, Tim tjones@ima.infomail.com --- FleetStreet 0.95wb * Origin: Trial Run - Austin, Tx - [512-280-6578] (1:382/107) Public Message Message # 1305 *OS9 ECHO* To : Dave Kelly From : Tim Jones Subject : Get Together Date : 94/12/03 23:09:00 Hello Dave, Replying to a message of Dave Kelly to Tim Jones: TJ>> I would like to try! Let me know what weekend. Thanks. DK> Will do. Leave me an address again and I will send you a map how DK> to get to my house so we don't wait til the last minute. Tim Jones 2666 Piping Rock Tr. Austin, Tx 78748 Later, Tim tjones@ima.infomail.com --- FleetStreet 0.95wb * Origin: Trial Run - Austin, Tx - [512-280-6578] (1:382/107) Public Message Message # 1309 *OS9 ECHO* To : Erik Jan Tromp From : Curtis Boyle Subject : Re: 6309 assembler Date : 94/12/04 07:45:00 No problem on the Shell22a & Proc11. As far as the assembler we use, well, it's a hacked version of level 1 ASM, and it only supports about 80-85% of the 6309 instruction set (I didn't finish the 32 bit math stuff for LDQ #Immediate, none of the bit mode operations (xIM, LDBT/STBT, BIEOR, etc.) are implemented (we just use FCB/FDB's for now). After I got the bulk of it working (including the new W-based addressing modes), I kinda got distracted with NitrOS-9 & other projects (including the 2 I uploaded to you) and never finished it. Alan was thinking of finishing it for me, but he's been really busy in Sudbury, and both of us are trying to track down some weird problems with his latest OS9P1. --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: The North Village,28.8,OS/2,(306)384-0836 (1:140/26.0) Public Message Message # 1312 *OS9 ECHO* To : John Wight From : Mike Guzzi Subject : Re: Searching... Date : 94/12/04 10:41:00 On Thursday, December 1st, 1994 - John Wight wrote: JW> and OS-9 users, I would like to see us help each other as we can with JW> other operating systems (as my COCO system still sits next to my JW> MS-DOS/Windows machines). What does everyone else think? well shortly I will be owning a MSDOS/Windows system myself next to my main CoCo3 system. He asked a question about UNIX and UUCP, Unix is similar to os9 and i think for op systems like that it would be ok here since OS9 is UNIX-like --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: The Astral Plane BBS 717-586-2771 NE PA's CoCo Support (1:268/342) Public Message Message # 1313 *OS9 ECHO* To : Curtis Boyle From : Mike Guzzi Subject : Re: SPEED Date : 94/12/04 10:44:00 On Wednesday, November 30th, 1994 - Curtis Boyle wrote: CB> First, in SACIA, set your receive buffer to as big of a size as you CB> have memory for ($F, if possible). Second, in Supecomm, make sure CB> Auto-Zmodem (Options menu) is OFF. It slows things down for screen CB> updates. Are you losing characters on downloads, or on screen? The CB> screen updates in Supercomm are not all that optomized, but the also he must get the edition 9 clock modules since the old clock modules shut off IRQ's for too long, Also an IRQ hack to the rs232 pak helps big time. This way you don't route the IRQ's through the PIA's. I did the direct one, feed the IRQ from the RS232 pak directly to the CPU --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: The Astral Plane BBS 717-586-2771 NE PA's CoCo Support (1:268/342) Public Message Message # 1314 *OS9 ECHO* To : Christian Miller From : Mike Guzzi Subject : Re: MPI PROBLEM? Date : 94/12/04 10:45:00 On Wednesday, November 30th, 1994 - Christian Miller wrote: CM> The 1488 was the *SAME* chip that went in my RS-232 pak as well! How CM> did you fix yours? All I did to mine was sever the ground pin from CM> the old chip, and piggy backed the new chip on top of it. Then I CM> soldered all the pins together (with the old ground outside of the CM> new ground). As been working like a charm for over a year now! Hmm, id be worried about that, if the old 1488 chip shorted out it might cause havok on the new one, if it blew open like a fuse you might be ok. Why didn't you just desolder it? If you knew the chip was bad, you could destructivly removed it: clip the leads with a cutter, remove the "body" of the chip. Then you take pliers (forceps work great here) and you grab each pin and heat it with the iron and pluck them out. Clean up the holes with a vacuum bulb desolder. Install a socket, solder it, and you are done. Now if you blow that chip again, it will only take seconds to replace it. Practicing this isn't hard, find an old board and have some fun with it. I found the iron with the bulb mounted on it from RS works great for desoldering. I even went as far as making up a vacuum pump and connecting it to the iron so I can remove chips real fast. I made the pump with cheap parts (hey a desoldering station can cost $300-$500!!) I made my pump for under $50 in parts. As long as your pak is ok, don't worry about it, but if it starts acting up I would be concerned about that piggyback you did --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: The Astral Plane BBS 717-586-2771 NE PA's CoCo Support (1:268/342) Public Message Message # 1315 *OS9 ECHO* To : Christian Miller From : Mike Guzzi Subject : Re: SPEED Date : 94/12/04 10:52:00 On Wednesday, November 30th, 1994 - Christian Miller wrote: CM> Also, for downloading (if you want to use ZModem) get the new CM> version. It's 3.24 or somthing like that. Some people also suggest CM> shutting off all the "fancy" commands on your modem. That means, no CM> compression or error control. The only thing to keep on is flow CM> control. I also found that to keep downloading errors down, use a CM> ramdisk, and boot supercomm with a 40k buffer or so. (It defaults Using #40k for supercomm is a good idea, less disk writes for downloading. Downloading to a ramdisk will save some time but it isn't worth it at times if your system has a tendency to crash-o since you will lose what was on the ramdisk. Compression and flow control can be a problem to some CoCo's, ERROR control wouldn't. I would leave it on unless your only use MNP. MNP will slow down archived files and binary data. My modem uses LAPM and will not slow down the data stream. I find 8 pages of mem for sacia is enough. I also disable auto-zmodem check and on bbs's that have clear screen opions I use it, it takes some cpu time to scroll the screen. --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: The Astral Plane BBS 717-586-2771 NE PA's CoCo Support (1:268/342) Public Message Message # 1319 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Terry Goode Subject : BBS LIST Date : 94/12/05 19:22:00 RB> I'm running a BBS also. Are you running yours RB> with a CoCo? I'm using a CoCo3 512k (soon to be 2- RB> meg), RS232 pak, MPI, 2-40trk 5 1/4 DSDD, 1-80trk 3 RB> 1/2 DSDD, 62 meg MFM HD w/B&B, and a 14.4 RB> fax/modem. Do you have yours running smoothly at RB> 14.4? I don't and would like to know how. Maybe RB> you could help? ron,sorry i did have a coco 3 running RIBBS but so much of my work now is with ibm's and unix i sold my coco3 stuff and switched over. altho i still carry the name "GOLDEN COCO "(14 year or so) but your in the right echo for help. this echo and coco echo are two of the most helpfull and nicest people i have ever known. terry g. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1321 *OS9 ECHO* To : David Halko From : Robert Heller Subject : Re: X11 R4 Date : 94/12/01 21:39:00 I got a commercial port w/ Motif 1.1 and an XServer for a GRC04 board (a VME video board) with the board. The Xserver is somewhat unique in that it supports the DEC LK201 keyboard (most VME video board X11 servers expect a PC AT type keyboard). It was from a German company: Ingenieurburo Kisters in Aachen. There are problems with the code. X11 sources are available, but porting to a something other than true UNIX can be a pain. X11R5 is not likely to compile with Microware's plain K&R cc. It will compile with gcc however. You will need some sort of TCP/IP & Socket lib. (not typical with OSK 2.4 or earlier, but comes with OSK 3.0). Oh, the X11 makefiles will also want GNU's Make. gcc and gnumake are available from chestnut.cs.uwisc.edu (I think). X11R5 sources are available from MIT and other places. Robert --- ScanMail 68K * Origin: OS-9/68K: The only *real* OS. (508) 544-8337 (1:321/153.0) Public Message (Rec) Message # 1322 *OS9 ECHO* To : Warren Hrach From : Erik Jan Tromp Subject : Re: failed f'req (AGAIN!) Date : 94/12/01 18:55:00 Next Reply is Message 1342 On Tuesday, November 29th, 1994 - Warren Hrach wrote: WH> I wonder how hard it would be to incorporate RZ SZ into ribbs mail WH> routine. John Donaldson incorporated it into Kterm and the way its WH> done doen't require paying any fees. It would be problematical at best to try & 'drop' them in. We might be able to get RZ & SZ to work for user file transfers, but there are differences between the ZedZap/ZedZip implementation & 'standard' ZModem. In other words, no ZModem mail transfers without modifications & a recompile. dag... --> Erik <-- --- RiBBS v2.11 (Beta) * Origin: TimeShare Data Systems (aka: RiBBS H.Q.) (519)679-1332 (1:2401/403) Public Message Message # 1323 *OS9 ECHO* To : Curtis Boyle From : Erik Jan Tromp Subject : 6309 assembler Date : 94/12/01 19:21:00 Curtis... I was quite pleased & surprised to see your name pop up in the userlog a few weeks ago! Thanx for uploading proc11 & shell22a. I do, however, have a question for you. What are you using for a 6309 assembler? I've been using B&B's XSM & frankly, it's pathetic. If I try using an 8 or 16 bit register or pc-relative indirect addressing mode, [a,u], [name,pc] respectively, XSM will _not_ honour it unless I put the 8/16 bit specifier _outside_ the brackets. If I use a mnemonic it doesn't recognize (but does exist), it crashes my system. If I try to abort a compile by hitting [break], it crashes my system. In fact, I just spent the last several minutes rebooting my system & reclaiming the files in my ramdisk because XSM crashed when I called it with no parameters (tried getting a help message). As you can probably tell, I'd certainly like to upgrade to something slightly more reliable. dag... --> Erik <-- --- RiBBS v2.11 (Beta) * Origin: TimeShare Data Systems (aka: RiBBS H.Q.) (519)679-1332 (1:2401/403) Public Message Message # 1325 *OS9 ECHO* To : Richard Baysinger From : Mike Liegler Subject : Selling Out Date : 94/12/04 11:46:00 > -> I Have Decided to Sell My CoCo Stuff, (Part by Part - No Longer as > -> 2 Set's). Any Reasonable Offer Will Be Considered, for Any Part of > > I am looking for a Multipack and a RS232 pak. Do you have one > of each? > --- RiBBS v2.02 > * Origin: The Diamond Mine, Spokane, Wa. 509-325-5160 ( > 1-346/23) Richard, I have 2 Multipacks for sale. (cat.no.26-3124) and a comm-4 for sale. the comm-4 for is 4 times better than a RS232 pak, it has 4 ports not just one. I would like to get at least $60.00 for the Comm-4, and will take a reasonable offer on the multi-pak... --- FMail 0.98 * Origin: Com Port 1 - DFW Amateur Radio BBS (214) 226-1181 (1:124/7009) Public Message Message # 1326 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ed Jones From : Gene Clifton Subject : Grible Slagens Date : 94/12/04 11:43:00 In a msg to Gene Clifton on , Ed Jones writes: EJ> Are you generally running the same hardware and BBS software you used in EJ> New Orleans? Why am I asking? If Norm Rheaume leaves Mobile, I may not EJ> be able to find a local BBS that is Fido mail compatable with my RiBBS. EJ> I think that SOME of the 20 or so local Fido boards could be set to EJ> work with me, but they generally don't want to bother with it, they EJ> don't have enough technical knowledge about their oun systems, or they EJ> are not really interested in getting involved with mail service to my EJ> board operating at only 2400 baud.....................Ed Jones I still have all the software but at present I am not running a BBS, just running as a point off a system in New Orleans. Right now I do not intend to run a BBS, but if need be, I can get someone in New Orleans to feed you. Gene --- Squish v1.01 * Origin: Gene's Point - Savannah GA - (1:396/82.4) Public Message Message # 1327 *OS9 ECHO* To : All From : Terry Goode Subject : bbs list Date : 94/12/04 10:01:00 i has been brought to my attention that my bbs (the Golden Coco bbs) has an old listing ,it should now read : The Golden Coco bbs,713-941-1542,14,400,bink/max,supporting msdos,os/9,coco. altho i lost many,many coco/os9 files when i switched,i am getting some from the os9 tic'ing system we have . terry g. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1331 *OS9 ECHO* To : All From : Steve Batson Subject : New CoCo Emulators! Date : 94/12/04 04:52:00 Hey CoCo Emulator Fans, I just obtained the new CoCo II Emulator by Jeff Vavasour, Version 1.40.This is the official Shareware release of his emulator in which a $25.00 registration gets you the CoCo III Emulator! After testing this thing out I have to say that Jeff has outdone himself! SoundBlaster Support gives much improved CoCo sound, joystick support has been added, Virtual Cassette support allows SoundBlaster owners to read and write to cassette, Direct Disk Support allows you to read directly from CoCo formatted disks, you can now format a CoCo Disk in the PC Drive from within the Emulator and more! Jeff has also made some improvements in the code that appears to have corrected some compatibility and performance issues noticeable using some games. Zaxxon was choppy on version 1.30, but works fine on 1.40 if you have a computer fast enough to run the emulator at full CoCo speed (see my comments about PC speeds below). I have found 2 old basic programs in my archives that some of you might be interested in to help get 2 programs working on the emulator. One will read the original Zaxxon Disk and write out ZAXXON.BIN to another disk with no protection left. Zaxxon can then be stored on disk with other programs for safe keeping as well as loaded into the emulator very easily. The next one will make a copy of the original Sands of Egypt Disk stripping the copy protection as it goes so that you may back up Sands of Egypt. I could not get Sands of Egypt to work in the emulator by reading the new unprotected disk directly from the drive, but when I loaded it into a Virtual disk file it worked great! Anyway, I have both programs now running fine on the emulator! If anyone is interested in the copy protection removal programs, let me know. It's nice to be able to back these disks up too, the originals are bound to die sooner or later. From my testing of the emulator, it looks like a 386 33Mhz is the minimum to get Full CoCo performance so the games play like normal, depending on the game, anything faster than a 386-33 is suicide without slowing the emulator down a bit, heheheh. With the new additions of SoundBlaster support, PC Joystick Support, direct Disk support, etc., it looks like I might have a fair chance of achieving my goal to run my CoCo stuff on the PC and pack my CoCo safely away to save some space (I can't bring myself to sell or get rid of it :) ) Any comments from anyone else on the 1.4 release of the emulator? I'm placing my order for the CoCo 3 in the morning! Steve P.S. Any hints, tips, procedures or programs to remove copy protection from other CoCo II/III programs and move CoCo III rom paks to disk would be greatly appreciated. I have the stuff to store the older CoCo II rom paks to disk. --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The PowerLine BBS - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21) Public Message Message # 1333 *OS9 ECHO* To : Alex Forrest From : Ron Bull Subject : SPEED Date : 94/12/04 15:40:00 Next Reply is Message 1343 Well you sound like you really know the technical stuff. Now that I have the RS-232 pak running, I've bought a 14.4 fax/modem. I am having a problem of some kind with /T2. When I do an XMODE /T2 I get the following: nam=T2 mgr=SCF ddr=SACIA hpn=07 hpa=FF68 upc=00 bso=01 dlo=00 eko=00 alf=01 nul=00 pau=00 pag=18 bsp=08 del=18 eor=0D eof=1B rpr=09 dup=19 psc=17 int=03 qut=05 bse=08 ovf=07 par=02 bau=06 xon=11 xof=13 col=50 row=18 xtp=85 wnd=85 val= sty= cpx= cpy= fgc= bgc= bdc= I do not really understand what they are to be set at to run a BBS, but right now when someone calls, the modem (even though it is set to autoanswer) does not answer the call. This makes me very embarrassed. Here I tell everyone that I have a BBS up and running, but they can not get through! If you can help, I'd appreciate it very much! Thanks......TTYL Ron Bull --- FLAME v1.1/b * Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101) Public Message Message # 1334 *OS9 ECHO* To : Jerry Michelson From : Ron Bull Subject : SPEED Date : 94/12/04 16:29:00 Jerry, You also need to know that when I run AcSysedit and select U-tilities and then select the AcSysEdit function, I keep getting error # 216. When I run the GuestEdit I get error #201. Hope this helps! Ron Bull --- FLAME v1.1/b * Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101) Public Message Message # 1335 *OS9 ECHO* To : Terry Goode From : Ron Bull Subject : BBS LIST Date : 94/12/04 23:21:00 Terry, I'm running a BBS also. Are you running yours with a CoCo? I'm using a CoCo3 512k (soon to be 2-meg), RS232 pak, MPI, 2-40trk 5 1/4 DSDD, 1-80trk 3 1/2 DSDD, 62 meg MFM HD w/B&B, and a 14.4 fax/modem. Do you have yours running smoothly at 14.4? I don't and would like to know how. Maybe you could help? Thanks, Ron Bull --- FLAME v1.1/b * Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101) Public Message Message # 1342 *OS9 ECHO* To : Erik Jan Tromp From : Warren Hrach Subject : Re: failed f'req (AGAIN!) Date : 94/12/07 11:48:40 Previous Reply is Message 1322 On Thursday, December 1st, 1994 - Erik Jan Tromp wrote: EJ> It would be problematical at best to try & 'drop' them in. We might EJ> be able to get RZ & SZ to work for user file transfers, but there are EJ> differences between the ZedZap/ZedZip implementation & 'standard' EJ> ZModem. In other words, no ZModem mail transfers without EJ> modifications & a recompile. Erik, Well something has to be done or we OS9 RiBBS users will be left high and dry. The best my system, Nitros9 w/ZyXEL 16,800 modem can do on receiving mail pkts with telink is up to 280cps for large files from FD2.20. One more reason I will jump over to RiBBS_OSK as soon as we get it to work with FIDO. Warren Hrach, RiBBS/RiBBS_OSK beta sysop. --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: Ocean Beach BBS 619-224-4878 (1:202/745) Public Message Message # 1343 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Warren Hrach Subject : Re: SPEED Date : 94/12/07 11:57:46 Previous Reply is Message 1333 On Sunday, December 4th, 1994 - Ron Bull wrote: RB> have the RS-232 pak running, I've bought a 14.4 fax/modem. I am RB> having a problem of some kind with /T2. When I do an XMODE /T2 I get RB> the following: (txt deleted) Look at my next msg. which I include the xmode of my /t2. RB> I do not really understand what they are to be set at to run a BBS, RB> but right now when someone calls, the modem (even though it is set to RB> autoanswer) does not answer the call. This makes me very RB> embarrassed. Here I tell everyone that I have a BBS up and running, RB> but they can not get through! If you can help, I'd appreciate it RB> very much! Ron, what make of modem is it. Some bargain 14,400 modems have poor documentation and may not even work as a autoanswer modem on a BBS. John Reece has an Intel (ugh) 14,400 modem working just fine on his BBS which is RiBBS V2.10 and stock OS9. Of course mine is a ZyXEL and I have Nitros9 installed. Since I sent you 'RiBBS to Go' many moons ago have you tried that? I can guarantee that RiBBS to Go will work with most 14,400 modems if you move to a Hard Drive. Warren Hrach, RiBBS/RiBBS_OSK beta sysop. --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: Ocean Beach BBS 619-224-4878 (1:202/745) Public Message Message # 1344 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Warren Hrach Subject : 14,400 modem help Date : 94/12/07 12:07:47 The following bits of txt will explain how to get RiBBS to Go to work with a 14,400 baud modem; (This is a basic09 source that can be packed and I run when starting RiBBS [ribbsgo has first line 'fixer'] ; I also run it as a part of 'park.bat' PROCEDURE fixer DIM path:INTEGER DIM modem:STRING[3] modem:="/T2" OPEN #path,modem:WRITE PRINT #path,"ATZ&H0E0M0S2=30S7=30S38=48S0=1H0" CLOSE #path Note that first the modem gets ATZ which resets to its defaults. Then the &H0 turns off flow control. The E0 turns off local command echo. The M0 turns off the speaker. The S2=30 changes the escape char from + to a non printable ascii char. The S7=30 changes the default, modem wait for carrier 60, to 30 seconds. The S38=48 is unique to ZyXEL and disables the FAX modem and MNP5. The S0=1 turns on autoanswer for 1 ring. The H0 hangs up the modem. (The following is the rconfig modem settings I have for my BBS); Modem and I/O High Baud Rate :9600 I/O pathname :/T2 Carrier Bit :64 Standard=$20,Inverted=$40 Carrier Callcode :130 Getstt call- MWP=130, T2=$28 Modem Init String :^RATS0=0&D2&C1S2=94S7=30Q1M0N0H1| Modem Hangup String :^RATS0=0&D0H1| Modem Busy String :^RATS0=0&D0H1| 9600 Baud Responce :CONNECT 9600 4800 Baud Responce :CONNECT 4800 2400 Baud Responce :CONNECT 2400 1200 Baud Responce :CONNECT 1200 300 Baud Responce :CONNECT 300 Busy Responce :BUSY No Carrier Responce :NO CARRIER No Connect Responce :NO CONNECT (Note that there is some redundancy between the above and fixer. Just never got around to cleaning the rconfig up. Also note that each string ends with H1 which busyies out the line. Park.bat's fixer hangs it up.) (The following is an xmode of my /t2); nam=T2 mgr=SCF ddr=ACIADRV hpn=07 hpa=FF68 upc=00 bso=01 dlo=00 eko=01 alf=01 nul=00 pau=00 pag=18 bsp=08 del=18 eor=0D eof=1B rpr=04 dup=01 psc=17 int=03 qut=05 bse=08 ovf=07 par=00 bau=03 xon=11 xof=13 col= row= xtp= wnd= val= sty= cpx= cpy= fgc= bgc= bdc= )The following is a tport of my /t2 [tport comes with Aciadrv archive]; col=50 row=18 spt=01 val=01 slt=03 isz=02 osz=7F cfl=00 csg=00 xyz=00 col=50 row=18 spt=01 val=01 slt=03 isz=02 osz=7F cfl=00 csg=00 xyz=00 (Note the only changes from default is isz=02 (2k input buffer) and osz=7f (127 byte output buffer). Of course this is assuming the rs232 cable, pak to modem, has wires 6-8 reversed at on end which reverses CD and DSR to the pack from the modem. Without this RiBBS will not do FIDO nor autoanswer correctly. Of course my modem defaults to locked baud, AT&B0, DTE/DCE data rate. and X5 result codes. Warren Hrach, RiBBS/RiBBS_OSK beta sysop. PS I have been running this setup for 2 years now and no missed chars or botched mail xfers !!! --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: Ocean Beach BBS 619-224-4878 (1:202/745) Public Message Message # 1350 *OS9 ECHO* To : Thomas Kocourek From : Steve Batson Subject : Re: OS-9 68K/80X86 Date : 94/12/03 03:03:00 TK> The rumor mill has suggested that MW might do it again, sell OS9000 TK> at a lower price. Perhaps someone "in the know" can substantiate or With DOS, Windows and OS-2 going for under $100, Id think they would need to reduce the price quite a bit. I certainly will not go for it unless in the same range...and then only if I get to the point it makes sense for me. I don't really have the time to learn yet another OS right now. Of course with the CoCo 3 Emulator now available, I can run OS9 level II on my PC under the emulator and play with it a bit to see what I think. Steve --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The PowerLine BBS - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21) Public Message (Rec) Message # 1351 *OS9 ECHO* To : Warren Hrach From : Steve Batson Subject : Pentium facts ! Date : 94/12/03 03:23:00 Next Reply is Message 1403 WH> For those out of the loop, errors have been identified in the FDIV WH> (floating point divide) command of Intel's Pentium chip. Apparently WH> Intel has known about this for some time and chose to keep it quiet WH> while they designed new chips. Intel has not announced any plans to WH> replace the bad chips already distributed, and has instead released a WH> press release saying that the problem shouldn't bother most people. Yes the jokes that followed are humorous, but in all fairness, the above is not entirely true. 1) They Discovered back in June, but they have corrected the problem in the newer processors. 2) They were already in production when the bug was found. 3) They did extensive testing as well as many customers before it's release and nobody discovered it. 4) It occurs rarely. 5) They have agreed to work with anyone having trouble including replacing the CPU if necessary. I can post Intel CEO Andy Groves repsonse to concerns about this issue if anyone is interested. No company that I know of ever released a perfect product and certainly not on the first release. Steve P.S. Don't forget, the Pentium will run the CoCo emulator and CoCo programs at Turbo Speed! --- FreeMail 1.07b * Origin: The PowerLine BBS - N.H., Ca (916)338-3230 * (1:203/21) Public Message Message # 1354 *OS9 ECHO* To : Jerry Michelson From : Ron Bull Subject : SPEED Date : 94/12/03 20:27:00 I thought that I had it fixed, but I didn't. BTW I've since added VRN and the /nil package to my boot. That didn't fix the error. Install the ghandler? All I did was put the programs into the CMDS directory. The disk you sent was missing a file called 'Guest.txt' but that is all. Is there anything I need to do to 'Install' the Ghandler? When I do a XMODE of /T2 I get the following info: nam=T2 mgr=SCF ddr=SACIA hpn=07 hpa=FF68 upc=00 bso=018 dlo=00 eko=00 alf=01 nul=00 pau=00 pag=18 bsp=08 del=18 eor=0D eof=00 rpr=09 dup=19 psc=00 int=00 qut=00 bse=08 ovf=07 par=02 bau=05 xon=11 xof=13 col=50 row=18 xtp=08 wnd=08 val= sty= cpx= cpy= fgc= bgc= bdc= I have it set for 4800 baud due to lose of characters (I'm guessing that it might be due to phone line noise, I'm not sure). What I really would like is the BBS to be running smoothly to at LEAST 9600 baud, even though the modem is a 14.4 fax/modem. Any help you can give would be appreciated. Also, after I get it to settle down, I'd like to move on to AcBBSv3.0, if you could fix me up. BTW I'll call your BBS with a little thank you gift. THANKS! --- FLAME v1.1/b * Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101) Public Message Message # 1355 *OS9 ECHO* To : Curtis Boyle From : Ron Bull Subject : SPEED Date : 94/12/04 00:51:00 How do you increase the buffer size in SACIA? Is that one byte fix good for on the 6309 as well as the 6809? I added VRN and the /nil package to my boot and I did a XMODE /T2 par=02 xtp=85. I think that I might have a problem with phone line noise. Everything seems fine at 4800, but I lose characters at higher speeds. I need to have the ANSI terminal active for my BBS and most of the BBSs that I call use ANSI. Screens really look strange with just TTY which in supercomm probably is ASCII. I haven't used the OS9 terminal, don't know what that is for. I do not know if something needs changed in /T2 or not. This is what /T2 looks like when I do XMODE /T2: nam=T2 mgr=SCF ddr=SACIA hpn=07 hpa=FF68 upc=00 bso=01 dlo=00 eko=00 alf=01 nul=00 pau=00 pag=18 bsp=08 del=18 eor=0D eof=00 rpr=09 dup=19 psc=00 int=00 qut=00 bse=08 ovf=07 par=02 bau=05 xon=11 xof=13 col=50 row=18 xtp=85 wnd=85 val= sty= cpx= cpy= fgc= bgc= bdc= Maybe you could tell me what to do? I'm not an experienced programmer or anything, I'm just trying to get things UP TO SPEED. Thanks for any help you can give. TTYL --- FLAME v1.1/b * Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101) Public Message Message # 1356 *OS9 ECHO* To : Christian Miller From : Ron Bull Subject : SPEED Date : 94/12/04 01:04:00 Well I applied everything that you said and it seems to be working fine now. I still occasionally lose a character, but I can live with that. Hopefully now I can get the BBS (AcBBSv2.4a) up and running correctly now at 9600 baud. Maybe after I get Rick Ulland's FAST232, I can move up to 14.4? BTW, did you ever get my disks mailed out? Just checking! And thanks for your help! --- FLAME v1.1/b * Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101) Public Message Message # 1366 *OS9 ECHO* To : Thomas Kocourek From : Michele Marie Dalene Subject : Re: Os-9 68K/80X86 Date : 94/12/04 03:31:00 > The rumor mill has suggested that MW might do it again, sell OS9000 at a > lower price. Perhaps someone "in the know" can substantiate or deny this > rumor. If os9/9000 is ever offered again for that deal. I have plans to get a 486dx2 in the future.... Then I can really go to town :) Michele Marie Dalene ... To get back on your feet, miss two car payments. --- FMail 0.92 * Origin: The Pink Rose 203-429-6338 300-9600 bps (1:327/6338) Public Message Message # 1368 *OS9 ECHO* To : CHRIS PERRAULT From : DAVID GRAHAM Subject : Hazelwood Basic Date : 94/12/05 07:41:00 Actually, Chris, Mike has not titled it as far as I know. Also, I consider applications to be #1 priority, as languages are no longer the main seller for new machines.... --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v0.6d * Origin: The Sierra Hotel! BBS/Enid, Oklahoma (405) 242-5332 (1:19/47) Public Message Message # 1379 *OS9 ECHO* To : Erik Jan Tromp From : Dave Gantz Subject : Re: PROGRAMMING Date : 94/11/28 23:10:00 On Friday, November 25th, 1994 - Erik Jan Tromp wrote: EJ> What kind of (RiBBS) programs have you written? EJ> dag... Well Erik, there's only one that I care to mention specifically right at the moment since I'm about to release it as a Tic file. It's an AREAS.CTL editor called areaedit. It makes it easy to add or remove echos, add or remove nodes that you echo too, change the message base number without affecting the tagname or net/nodes, change the tagname without affecting the message base number or net/nodes. Anyway, I'll be able to utilize its parts to write an areafix for RiBBS at some point. I don't really want to be specific about my other projects in public because I'm still hoping to get them finished before someone beats me to the punch. I program to fill a need/want that hasn't yet been met, at least not to my knowledge. I kinda loose interest when something along the same lines as what I'm doing comes out. Anyway thank you for your interest. I can be reached privately for more info in one of the following ways: Snail Mail Dave Gantz E. 4328 Longfellow #1 Spokane, WA 99207 FidoNet Netmail to me @ 1:346/9 Internet mail to DGANTZ@Delphi.com Delphi Email to DGANTZ Take care and have fun..... Dave --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: Indulgence Spokane, WA -Unpublished- (1:346/9.1) Public Message Message # 1384 *OS9 ECHO* To : Mike Guzzi From : Ron Bull Subject : SPEED Date : 94/12/05 08:03:00 Mike, I saw your message and thought that I'd ask about this IRQ thing. I'm not very knowledgeable about these things, please define what you are talking about. I think that I already have the updated software clock module, and Rick Ulland's RS232 pak has a clip-thing that did something inside it to allow me to use it to run the BBS. I'm interested in hearing more. Thanks - TTYL Ron Bull --- FLAME v1.1/b * Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101) Public Message Message # 1385 *OS9 ECHO* To : All From : Dave Kelly Subject : OS9 v2.4 Date : 94/12/05 21:58:00 Quoting from "The OS9 Guru" by Paul S Dayan in 7.9.2 on page 135. SCSI Device Driver System "The Small Computer Systems Interface provides a means of accessing up to 7 controllers through a single interface, with each controller handling up to 8 drives. The drives may be of different types - disk drives, tape drives, printers, and so on. ..................................................... ................................." This implies that with OS9 version 2.4 you can have upto 56 disk drives on line at one time. I was wondering if anyone has explored this area yet? With 2 gig hard drives that would be 112 gigs of storage space. Hmmmmmmmmmm! I wonder if you can buy 56 - 2 gig drives for less than $75,000. Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1386 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Dave Kelly Subject : Speed Date : 94/12/05 00:00:00 RB> When I do a XMODE of /T2 I get the following info: RB> RB> nam=T2 mgr=SCF ddr=SACIA hpn=07 hpa=FF68 upc=00 bso=018 RB> dlo=00 eko=00 alf=01 nul=00 pau=00 pag=18 bsp=08 del=18 RB> eor=0D eof=00 rpr=09 dup=19 psc=00 int=00 qut=00 bse=08 RB> ovf=07 par=02 bau=05 xon=11 xof=13 col=50 row=18 xtp=08 RB> wnd=08 val= sty= cpx= cpy= fgc= bgc= bdc= What XMODE are you using? Mine give a different picture. Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * Forgive us our I/O errors. ENTER. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1387 *OS9 ECHO* To : Pat Delvecchio From : Dave Kelly Subject : Test Message Date : 94/12/05 00:00:00 PD> This is a test message. Please return if found. I found this message in Houston, Texas on the 5th. Send the reward to a charity of your choice. Dave Kelly, OS9 Community Network, Region 19 Coordinator. ___ * Scribe 4.0 * Press ENTER and be right justified. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: THE GOLDEN COCO'S other COMPUTER (1:106/941) Public Message Message # 1397 *OS9 ECHO* To : John Morris From : Brian O'Hagan Subject : OCN LIBRARY Date : 94/12/06 02:37:00 Ok . I'll drop the library in the mail tomorrow. There are 80 5.25" DSDD disks in the library. Almost all of the disks are full. Yea its big. Let me know when you get it. Also I do read all the Fido coco/OS9 messages which is how I found this one since this board is case sensitive (BBS thinks its O'hagan so it misses O'Hagan). Hope you have alot of spare disks around. TTYL. 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Suggested corrections, deletions or additions would be appreciated........Ed Jones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- RiBBS v2.02 * Origin: CoCo-Plus of Mobile Alabama 205-341-1616 (1:3625/461) Public Message Message # 1401 *OS9 ECHO* To : Alan Dekok From : Ed Jones Subject : Smash for OS9 L-II Date : 94/12/03 13:43:00 I bought a copy of your SMASH at the Atlanta CoCoFest to run on my Multi-Vue system. After installing it, I found that it would not work correctly with the HiRes mouse interface. Everything I have on my Multi-Vue system runs with the HiRes Interface. I would like to be able to use SMASH on my system, but need a modified version or a patch for the HiRes unit. Does such a critter exsist?...........Ed Jones --- RiBBS v2.02 * Origin: CoCo-Plus of Mobile Alabama 205-341-1616 (1:3625/461) Public Message Message # 1403 *OS9 ECHO* To : Steve Batson From : Warren Hrach Subject : Re: Pentium facts ! Date : 94/12/07 17:29:34 Previous Reply is Message 1351 On Saturday, December 3rd, 1994 - Steve Batson wrote: SB> Yes the jokes that followed are humorous, but in all fairness, the SB> above is not entirely true. SB> 1) They Discovered back in June, but they have corrected the problem SB> in the newer processors. SB> 2) They were already in production when the bug was found. SB> 3) They did extensive testing as well as many customers before it's SB> release and nobody discovered it. SB> 4) It occurs rarely. SB> 5) They have agreed to work with anyone having trouble including SB> replacing the CPU if necessary. SB> I can post Intel CEO Andy Groves repsonse to concerns about this SB> issue if anyone is interested. SB> No company that I know of ever released a perfect product and SB> certainly not on the first release. Steve, I personally am not interested in pentium facts or fixes, after all this is the OS9 echo. I should have put a disclaimer in the msg not to reply to me but to Chris Burke the original crossposter or the guy that posted the orginal msg. After all putting Intel inside can lead to your computer developing Alzheimers ! If you want to promote a new platform how about the PowerPC a product of Motorola and Apple and look for an OS9000 port for it soon. For a real good OS9 emulator you should try OS968K on an MM/1. I have RiBBS_OSK working quite well now, need to work on the modem answering part next. Talk about speed, I am running it on my floptical and with most modules packed typing 'ribbsmain' pops up the wait screen in a few seconds. Everything runs 10 times faster than on my Nitros9 system on the coco. Warren Hrach, RiBBS/RiBBS_OSK beta sysop. --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: Ocean Beach BBS 619-224-4878 (1:202/745) Public Message Message # 1405 *OS9 ECHO* To : Duane Martz From : Sheryl Schwartz Subject : Storm Date : 94/12/04 23:34:00 Hi Duane. I think I said in another message that I got the multipak last week. I haven't had a chance to try it out, will do so shortly. How do you know it's an upgraded one w/satellite just by looking at it? The manual doesn't state anything different than the others or that it's for a coco3. How can you tell if it's for a 2 or 3? Or did it come that way from manufacturer? It gets confusing since I have another one that's a regular multipak that was upgraded afterwards w/pal chip and I have one that isn't upgraded at all and they all look alike. I noticed yours is a bit smaller, was this a newer model? I'll let you know how it works. Oh, and I wasn't in the chair at the time, luckily. :) Or I would be halfway to Canada by now. Later, Sheryl --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: Chronicles of Narnia(2) USR V.Everything (215)671-0628 (1:273/941) Public Message Message # 1406 *OS9 ECHO* To : Ron Bull From : Chris Perrault Subject : Speed Date : 94/12/02 21:32:00 > I just got a 14.4 modem. I have SACIA in my boot. I'd > like to take advantage of the speed. I set Supercomm to > 9600 and 19200. Both times I lost characters. When it's > at 19200, I loose alot more! Any ideas? > > Thanks Ron Bull > > --- FLAME v1.1/b > * Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 10+ gigs [717.657.8699] (1:270/101) From what I've heard so far, the latest version of Nitros9 handles 19.2k pretty well, unless something(bug) has come up. There is an active discussion of it on the Cocolist. I would get in touch with Colin McKay or Alan Dekok for more details. You **might** be able to get better 9600 bps results using Conect's mini-rs232 port, but don't hold me to that. I'm only guessing because it does handle a little better the Tandy Deluxe rs232 from what I hear(supporting all seven lines). >Chris< ... Life is anything that dies when you stomp it ___ ADQwk/OS-9 32a --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Merr.ValleyUsersGroupBBS,No.Andover,Ma.(508)682-6263 (1:324/117) Public Message Message # 1409 *OS9 ECHO* To : Steve Batson From : Mike Guzzi Subject : Re: OS-9 68K/80X86 Date : 94/12/06 09:56:00 On Saturday, December 3rd, 1994 - Steve Batson wrote: SB> OS right now. Of course with the CoCo 3 Emulator now available, I can SB> run OS9 level II on my PC under the emulator and play with it a bit SB> to see what I think. I thought OS9 Level II wouldn't run under the emulator ?? --- RiBBS v2.10 * Origin: The Astral Plane BBS 717-586-2771 NE PA's CoCo Support (1:268/342) Public Message Message # 1411 *OS9 ECHO* To : Pat Delvecchio From : Ken Patience Subject : Re: Test Message Date : 94/12/06 02:21:00 Hi Pat, Your test message was recieved here with no problem. See Ya! --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: M.T.A.C. BBS Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1:250/610.0) Public Message Message # 1412 *OS9 ECHO* To : MICHELE MARIE DALENE From : DAVID GRAHAM Subject : Re: Os-9 68K/80X86 Date : 94/12/06 09:32:00 Mike, if you are looking for a replacement motherboard with 486DX2-66 I have one..... --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v0.6e * Origin: The Sierra Hotel! BBS/Enid, Oklahoma (405) 242-5332 (1:19/47) =*= FIDO ECHO MESSAGES MENU =*= <1> Scan \ <2> Read > OS9 Echo mail <3> Leave / <4> Scan \ <5> Read > CoCo Echo mail <6> Leave / <7> Scan \ <8> Read > CoCo_Club Echo mail <9> Leave / Scan \ Read > MM1_TECH Echo Mail