[Coco] success with DCom

[Paul Fitch]

Is it possible the Runb from Nitros you have is the 6309 version? 

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> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Ron Bihler
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:33 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] success with DCom
> 
> Wayne Campbell wrote:
> > I have (re-?)learned a few things in the last few weeks. 
> First, the byte I had to change to make the DCom disk image 
> recognized by NitrOS-9 is the # of tracks. $07 is a 720K 
> 80-Track, and $03 is a 360K 40-Track. Fortunately, making 
> that change didn't affect the readability of the disk image.
> >
> > The second thing I learned is that Basic09 01.01.00 is a 
> re-write of the Dragon Basic09 (not sure if it's just L1 or 
> both L1 & L2) that Boisy Pitre and others worked on. There 
> were changes made to DATE$ to accomodate the Y2K requirements.
> >
> > RunB, of the same version number, seems to have a bug. I 
> can't decompile anything running DCom from the OS-9 command 
> line, but I can by running Basic09 and running DCom from within it.
> >
> > I have successfully decompiled DCom. Now I have the task of 
> trying to invent new variable names to replace the DCom 
> generic names. Once that's done, I'm ready to place DCom in 
> the public domain.
> >
> > Wayne
> >
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> Wayne
> 
> If you using the version of runb that was on the dcom disk it 
> will work.  There is something different between the runb 
> versions, I ran into the same problem trying to dcom RiBBS, 
> if I ran Dcom within Nitros or LV2 it would crash.  But when 
> I moved the Runb supplied with Dcom to the Cmds Dir ran just fine. 
> 
> Ron
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