[Coco] How to import source code into NitrOS-9?

Sun Oct 4 22:46:29 EDT 2015

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 22:02:01 -0400
Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> Kelly... (LMAO), yes, you are the only one using a joystick! (j/k)
> There are 2 mice (meeces?) for the Coco. The black, single button
> "Tandy Color Mouse" (I have 2), often seen on ebay for about $20, and
> the white, dual button "Tandy Deluxe Color Mouse", rarely seen though
> I have seen one or two on ebay in the past couple of years (I have
> one). There are actually 2 versions of the deluxe model. The first
> was pre-Coco 3 and had a single button. The 2nd was released after
> the Coco 3 and 1000 EX and could be used with both. Any of these will
> work with OS9/NitrOS9 as the 2nd button is useless in the current
> configuration of either. The 2nd button is hard coded (in os9) to
> change windows and can't be programmed for anything else until the
> driver is altered.
> 
> As far as using MShell... It can bu used with the keyboard as well.
> All cmds have a shortcut key (read the docs). I actually find the
> keys quicker in a lot of cases unless I'm feeling really lazy and I'm
> jacked back in my desk chair and don't feel like sitting up to get to
> the keyboard (mouse is close by) as my Coco Eagle AT keyboard is
> above and to the left of my PC keyboard and I have to actually
> reposition myself if I use the Coco keyboard. Which actually, my Coco
> 3 is down at the moment. I always heard that there is nothing you can
> enter into the Coco keyboard that can physically hurt your Coco, I
> guess they never entered a full cup of coffee into the keyboard.
> Needless to say, I have to tear it down (again) and clean it as it
> has quite a few stuck and shorting keys. I have rebuilt this keyboard
> 3 times now. This time will be the last. I finally found some info on
> that particular keyboard (Eagle AT Keyboard Interface) as it is a
> Keytronics product which has the "felt & foil" keys and I found info
> on good solutions to replace the felt and foil. I replaced the felt,
> but was using the old foil film contacts and several were beyond
> repair so I left the least used keys out (24 F-keys on this board).
> Now I can fix them all again.
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> Bill Pierce
> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way
> to slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
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> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
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> 
> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: K. Pruitt <pruittk at roadrunner.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Oct 4, 2015 8:06 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] How to import source code into NitrOS-9?
> 
> 
> MShell definitely seems like it would be the preferred interface for a
> 
> CoCo3FPGA.
> 
> I personally don't mind the command line interface, but I do know
> that OS9 
> needs a good GUI, and Multi-Vue ain't it.
> 
> I've played around with
> MShell and am of course quite impressed and 
> recognize it as a major step
> forward for NitrOS-9, I just don't like using a 
> joystick as a mouse and that's
> what I have. We need a mouse-solution for the 
> CoCo. Or is there already one and
> I'm the only one sitting here using a 
> joystick as a mouse? Hehe.
> 
> 
> -----
> Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> To:
> <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Cc: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> Sent: Sunday,
> October 04, 2015 2:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] How to import source code into
> NitrOS-9?
> 
> 
> > Kelly, that's basically, what MShell does, but with a graphic GUI
> that's 
> > point&click. It uses DW4's dir cmd, to list the PC dir to one panel,
> then 
> > read the os9 dir in the other. Click a filename twice (once just
> 'selects' 
> > it) and a menu pops up with the option for copy, move etc, and
> performs 
> > that operation on the file to the other panel (if applicable). To
> get 
> > files to the PC, I use the DW4 virtual printer, but before it sends
> > the
> 
> > file to '/p', it sets the DW4 print dir to the same as the dir
> > shown with 
> >
> the addition of the filename, which causes OS9 to 'print' the file to
> the 
> > PC
> with the desired destination and name. Once the operation finishes,
> it 
> > resets
> the printer back to normal. Then the dir operation is refreshed on 
> > the
> affected panel.
> > Of course all this is invisible to the user and all they see
> is two file 
> > lists, to which they just point & click.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Pierce
> >
> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way
> to 
> > slow
> down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
> >
> >
> > My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack
> Color Computer 2 & 3
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> >
> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> >
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> > Global Moderator for
> TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer Forums
> > http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/
> >
> > E-Mail:
> ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> >
> 
> 

HI Bill, Your tale of woe reminded me of the time we dumped Coke into
the mainframe keyboard at Ohio Edison 8-). After the IBM FE
disassembled and cleaned the keyboard three times, it still locked up
after two hours use. He finally got PO'ed and jerked it out, took it
down to the local car wash and thoroughly washed and hosed it down. He
brought it back, thoroughly dried each piece, reassembled it, and
reinstalled it. That keyboard never failed again and was in the
mainframe until that 360-50 was exchanged for a 370-145. I still smile
at that 8-).

Cheers