OS-9 as Replacement for DECB. Was: [Coco] Portal-9 IDE

[Ray Watts]

Have either of you considered using Burke & Burke's RSB as the base for 
your operations and working from there?  If that pans out, it would give 
you the best of both worlds.  Matter of fact, Bob Emery, have you ever 
attempted to run FOG from RSB?  Sounds like something I would like to 
help with about 4 months down the line.  Need to finish my learning 
curve on Mac OSX 10.3 operating in tandem, but totally independent from, 
OS 9.2.2.  Also need to bone up again on RSB and do some more B09 coding 
on GMate2, my personalized OS9 interface.

Griz


Stephen H. Fischer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I started thinking about what I would like in a new Disk Basic and another
> idea popped up.
>
> On a CoCo 3 2-Meg system, can we strip down OS-9 and put it into rom (Just
> load a disk file initially) and build a system that will be acceptable to
> the DECB users. Keeping OS-9 hidden for the most part but having the power
> there for those whom can use it. The look and feel of DECB to be kept as
> much as possible.
>
> Trying very hard to not require knowledge of OS-9.
>
> Perhaps a shell written that responds like DECB in a even more 
> friendly way
>
> OS-9 was designed to be embedded, Bosie has already done it.
>
> Think about having all the needed parts and utilities in the rom initially
> to provide the same power on capabilities as DECB when it starts, but OS-9
> is running.
>
> Then think about a GUI shell and the add ons which now will be so much 
> easier to do.
>
> If we work on a Updated basic, will not most of the work be involved 
> in duplicating what OS-9 does already?
>
> Stephen H. Fischer
>
> Robert Emery wrote:
>
>>> On this note I'm also interested in knowing if there are any current
>>> projects being developed using Portal-9 that you might want to share 
>>> with
>>> other writers to help them see how easy it is to build a CoCo
>>> program.
>>
>
>> One thing I'd like to see is what Nick M. mantioned a little while back,
>> but it appeared to generate little interest. We need an updated Disk
>> Basic. Nick wanted to incorporate a gui, which some of you know is an
>> interest I share. I'd like to see a new DECB rom for the CoCo3 with the
>> following features:
>> *DECB/HDBDOS software compatible
>> *supports read/write to MSDOS formatted disks (default mode)
>> *compatible with original RSDOS/OS9 formated disks (compatibility mode)
>> *supports (requires?) RTC for file date/time stamping
>> *built-in gui interface with hi-res joystick support
>>
>> This is all just speculative dreaming. This is a project I think I could
>> contribute a lot to, and could learn from the process of comparing my
>> Basic programming methods with ML development.
>>
>> Bob
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