akermanis@troa02.dec.com (02/13/89)
>>I thought that it would be interesting to know more about the folks who read >>and contribute to comp.os.os9... >> >> Name, and path to your site. John Akermanis path=as above >> Type of system you run OS-9 on. COCO III, 512K, RS232 pak, 1 x 40DS floppy, 1 x 80DS floppy, 20 meg hard disk(Burke & Burke) and CC Bus running under OS-9 LII. >> What do you use OS-9 for? (Software development, word processing, etc.) wordprocessing, games and developement >> Significant programs you've contributed to public or private domain. COCO diagnostics, floppy disk driver, hires video driver >> How others might obtain the fruit of your work. Personal request >> Current and future projects you're working on. VTxxx terminal emulator software Home finance package for Multi-Vue >> What programs would you hope to find and/or buy in the near future? VIP software under OS9 Level II, A good CAD package for OS-9 >> Other electronic forums you frequent (CIS, Delphi, etc.) CIS +----------------------------------------------+ | If a listing has a beginning, it has an end. | +----------------------------------------------+ John
durham@endor.harvard.edu (Peter Durham) (02/24/89)
In article <8902131319.AA18648@decwrl.dec.com> akermanis@troa02.dec.com writes: >I thought that it would be interesting to know more about the folks who read >and contribute to comp.os.os9... > > Name, and path to your site. Peter Durham I'm durham@endor.harvard.edu; for UUCP send to endor through harvard. > Type of system you run OS-9 on. I have a CoCo3 with 512K, an LR Tech 5 meg hard disk (gee, it seemed SO big not that long ago...), and miscellaneous other stuff. > What do you use OS-9 for? (Software development, word processing, etc.) 1. Recreational programming (almost a contradiction in terms) 2. Word processing (hey, I'm a student) 3. Games (my fiancee and I love King's Quest III; we've been stuck for a while but we just called the Sierra BBS last night and got a hint that got us going again -- if you're stuck it's really worth the call, they give excellent hints, with subtlety decreasing as you wish) 4. Terminal (NO! It seems a sin to use my machine to call some other machine to do stuff there, but I have to do/grade course work...) > Significant programs you've contributed to public or private domain. 1. KMode -- like xmode, except for the CoCo1/2 keyboard, to make the extra keys in 2d source keyboards useful. For level I only. 2. OS9p3 -- a "printerr" for level II. > How others might obtain the fruit of your work. The above are on CIS and Delphi, I think. > Current and future projects you're working on. OK, remember I'm a student, so there's a random chance these'll get done someday. A font editor. A text editor (I've been enjoying the CoCo list discussion on useful features). Some useful subroutines for MultiVue based programs. > What programs would you hope to find and/or buy in the near future? 1. A terminal program under OS9 that does good vt100 emulation at 2400. This is the "holy grail", I think. Ultimaterm is an excellent RS-DOS terminal program, but I'd much rather be under OS9. From my experience, XCom9 is the _only_ thing I've seen so far that doesn't drop half the characters. I agree with what's being discussed as to terminal programs; I'd much rather have lots of little programs (an autodialer, the simple terminal program, small file transfer programs) than a big one. A lot of the OS9 philosophy is "mix-and-match", and that's how something like this should be done. 2. More Sierra adventure/graphics games. They're good. > Other electronic forums you frequent (CIS, Delphi, etc.) 1. CIS (73177,1215) 2. Delphi (PEDXING) 3. the CoCo list (durham@endor.bitnet) 4. here > Other random comments while you're making a posting and might as well > say something. 1. Having the above-mentioned fiancee really curtails late-night hacking (not that I object to my current situation!!) 2. The CoCo III is a great home hacking machine; it's got good features like windowing and multitasking; it's a VERY open system. Compare to other stuff: the generic PC has little more than I/O handling, and the Mac is a very closed system to work under. It's a small system; it's relatively easy to know it inside out. There isn't a machine out there that I'd rather have (though I'd take a Mac for free if I could keep my CoCo, since laser printing is good, and it'd be handy for grading; the NeXT is neat but $$$$) 3. What would my dream machine be? It needs the following... 1. A 68000-class engine and at least 1M memory. 2. An OS like CoCo OS9 L2: windowing, multitasking, but not in the programmer's way; easy to write small programs and/or standalone applications.; modular; OPEN. 3. A fast C compiler (like Lightspeed C), with source level debugging, & windows; which will easily generate standalone programs. --------- Peter Durham durham@endor.harvard.edu durham@endor.bitnet
flounder@westfort.UUCP (The Flounder) (03/11/89)
name: Richard Scranton
hardware: CoCo 3 512k, multipak, 2x 40tk DSDD, 2 rs232 paks, voice pak,
monochrome monitor.
working on: Hardware hacks to make it a decent multiuser system. Stuff so
far includes: alteration of one rs232 to decode at $FF6C so both may be
online, alteration of multipak so both paks may be interrupt driven by AciaPak.
RGB-to-composite adapter, allowing 64 level gray-scale on an
amber monitor. alteration of multipak to fully decode the scs line/slot.
address: as below.
Richard Scranton
GEnie address R.SCRANTON
uucp ...!osu-cis!westfort!Flounder