[Coco] Portal-9 boxed CD with manuals

[Roger Taylor]

I'm working on some updates to Portal-9 for the 3.02 release and will be 
offering the package on a CD with printed manuals.  The DVD case will have 
a printed cover label and user's manuals for CCASM and the 6809/6309 
CPU.  Other items included on the CD will be source code, sample projects, 
a new version of ToolPak, the emulators, and the entire CoCo Collection CD 
files, and whatever else I can throw in.

This is a limited deal so please preorder your package now and I will get 
these ready to ship by Friday or before.

See this page about pricing depending on if you are a new user or 
registered user of Portal-9.  I will accept PayPal or U.S. Postal Service 
money orders.
www.coco3.com/ind_6809dev.htm


A Summary of Portal-9

Portal-9 is a 6809/6309 IDE for Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP (with 
styles) and is the easiest and most streamlined 6809/6309 IDE available for 
6809/6309/CoCo/Vectrex developers.  The system is preconfigured to work 
best with CoCo projects.  You can build floppy disks, ROM images, or raw 
binary files for exporting to any 6809/6309 computers or boards.

For the best development experience, Portal-9 works seamlessly with the 
M.E.S.S. emulator to run your CoCo software on your PC as it will look on a 
real CoCo.  Even I am still amazed at how nice this system works for 
writing CoCo software on your PC.

There are hundreds of Portal-9 users, including CoCo and Vectrex 
developers.  There have been no bug reports for at least 6 months now and 
the system is very stable.

The included cross-assembler CCASM is much compatible with EDTASM for the 
CoCo, so if you have some EDTASM projects you'd like to renew and convert 
to Portal-9, it's very easy to make a new project and add your source files 
to it.  When your project is configured for the right target system and 
media, you just edit your code and click the Go! button whenever you want 
to see your software run.

Also, the Projector-3 CoCo 3 graphics program is also part of Portal-9 as a 
sample project, which you can customize, rewrite, and rebuild on your own 
by the press of the Go button.  In other words, you're the author of a new 
version of Projector-3 if you like since it's in the public domain and can 
be altered and passed around for free now.  Robert Gault recently added the 
BMP format for Windows, for example.  You can do things like this by 
writing your own CODEC modules for the system.  His source code is included 
so you can see how to write your own drivers, even for music.


Thanks,



-- 
Roger Taylor