[Coco] wdir command?

[Christopher Fox]

Thanks, Bill.

It’s been exciting finally getting back to the nostalgia of the CoCo. I’ve now got a nice CoCo 3 setup that pretty closely matches the one I had in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, apart from now also having the Hit. 6309, and a great RGB2VGA converter from Luis.

I’ve been getting back into some light programming recently, and I’m looking forward to steering those interests to the CoCo. I recently wrote a little two-voice holiday music player for the Tandy Model “T” series portables in MS Basic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVfDbFktpxY), and I’m presently writing a “Simon”-type game in 8085 assembler for the “EMAC Primer” 8085 trainer. (http://www.emacinc.com/primer-trainer) It’s called Echo8085, and uses ANSI escape sequences on a serial terminal to display the game screens and accept input.

Right now, I’m going through all of my old 5.25” floppies from my CoCo days. About 50 disks, evenly split RS-DOS and OS-9. I’d like to make good DSK backups of these before they are completely unreadable! I’m already impressed they’ve survived ~25 years in a non-climate-controlled garage. :-) As I make progress, I’ll post directories of what I’ve got, in case I might have something missing from the archives available to the CoCo community.

Christopher





On 20160120, 00:33, "Coco on behalf of Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com on behalf of coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

>I found a C conversion of wdir, but not Kevin's original Basic09 version. The C source eve says it was converted from the Basic09 version. I sent Chris a copy.
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>Subject: Re: [Coco] wdir command?
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>I haven't run OS-9 in many, many years, but could it have been a part ofthe GShell+ add on?  Somehow it kind of rings a bell.On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:36 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>wrote:> I don’t remember if Wdir came with it, but Bill is correct in that we> received a portion of the Level II upgrade by accident with our TC-9’s (but> far from complete). We disassembled (as Bills said) several of the modules> (since we were tasked with doing upgrades to the TC9IO driver, which> covered the keyboard, joysticks, and sound, and had hooks into the> windowing system).>> L. Curtis Boyle> curtisboyle at sasktel.net>>>> > On Jan 19, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:> >> > To tell you the truth Christopher, Kevin did write that utility.  It was> part of the Level 2 upgrade that never came to be.  Curtis and I got that> utility with our TC-9’s by accident.  The story I remember is Frank Hogg> gave us a copy of Level 2 for the TC-9, at time of sale, that happened to> contain portions of the upgrade by accident.  We didn’t discover this until> we started disassembly of the TC-9 core vs the CC3.> >> > Bill Nobel> >> >> On Jan 19, 2016, at 7:33 PM, Christopher Fox <cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:> >>> >> Didn’t hear from anyone on the list about this. I find that a bit> surprising, honestly.> >>> >>> >>> >> Regardless, I did find references to a “wdir” command written by Kevin> Darling, and the description implies it’s similar to or the same as what> I’ve got on some of my OS-9 Lvl II disks. Found this info referencing a> “GEnie” archive, which seems to have been lost? It would’ve contained the> Basic09 source for this command.> >>> >> If anyone happens to have it, I’d love to have a copy of the source.> >>> >> Thanks.> >>> >> Christopher> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> On 20160116, 11:00, "Coco on behalf of Christopher Fox" <> coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com on behalf of cbfox01 at syr.edu> wrote:> >>> >>> Finally getting a chance to spend more time with my CoCos, both> hardware and emu. The new VCC is amazing, btw.> >>>> >>> On some of my old OS-9 boot disks, I’ve found a command called wdir> that provides a list of windows. Any information on where that might’ve> come from? It doesn’t appear to be part of the Nitros-9 distribution?> >>>> >>> christopher> >>>> >>>> >>> --> >>> Coco mailing list> >>> Coco at maltedmedia.com> >>> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco> >>> >> --> >> Coco mailing list> >> Coco at maltedmedia.com> >> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco> >> >> > --> > Coco mailing list> > Coco at maltedmedia.com> > https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco> >>>> --> Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
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