[Coco] Why haven't we got this?!!

[Steve]

Nick, I agree with you, but not for the same reasons.

You and me both needed as much of the computer to making the game the 
best it could be.  OS-9 was a bit of an overkill OS for fast action 
video games.  It just used too much ram and limit the resources of the 
computer.

All of my games did have an OS (of my creation) in them.  But it was 
just the basic I/O, memory and Object control systems.  That all I 
needed in an OS.

The Last Ninja would have been my only OS-9 game.  (Only because I was 
stepping in to help try and save it.)  But it was not my project to 
start with.  If it had, I would have done it as a 32K ROM pak game, not 
floppy running under OS-9.

Steve


On 1/22/2014 5:43 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
> I'm not into OS-9. Tried several times and gave up in frustration.
>
> If I was, I would have done something but whenever I get bogged down trying
> to fix and patch problems just to make the darn thing work reliably, I lose
> interest to use it for creating anything.
>
> It's embarrassing to see an Amstrad CPC running a multi-tasking OS with a
> full multi-window GUI using a Z-80 CPU and then... running OS-9 on a CoCo
> with Multi-Vue!!
>
> Is the source for multi-vue available?
>
> Nick
>