[Coco] Colorful_Sled_6ed Editing three files on one screen

Stephen H. Fischer SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
Sun Oct 14 20:19:36 EDT 2012


Hi,

NO! It is asm.

I loaded the asm from the disk the source is on and it worked.

http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=781#p781

The glue broke on my OS-9 Level-I Program Development book, it has dried 
out. "l,w130,d0" needed to be looked up.

ShellPlus has also been broken also, my script to assemble all the 
descriptors will not run.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Colorful_Sled_6ed Editing three files on one screen


>
>
> Stephen, I also ran into problems with trying to assemble older files in 
> Nitro. I finally realized the problem was not with Asm as it was not 
> changed (that I know of). The problem is in the os9defs file as it has not 
> only changed, but grown. The main thing to be done, is the upper/lower 
> case of the system calls. What I ran across most were  (old) I$WRITE, 
> (new) I$Write. All the calls are like this. Once these changes are made, 
> most programs will assemble. I suggest before attempting anything in 
> Nitro, looking deeply into os9defs, rbfdefs, & scfdefs and you'll not only 
> see the difference in syntax but that there's new calls that can make 
> programming life a little easier.
> I've move most of my assembly over to RMA now as not only does it make 
> variable organization easier, but it interfaces with C better than Asm.
>
> Bill P




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