[Coco] KCBasic

[Bill Pierce]

William, the real problem with documenting OS9 software is that 75% of it was free or shareware. Don't ask me why, but the OS9 crowd seemed to be a lot more giving in that they didn't commercialize their software but instead posted it to Delphi, CIS, the OS9UG, and BBS's as freeware or shareware (much like now). Some of the best OS9 apps, games and hundreds of utilities were free.
Another good place to document OS9 software would be the "Database Report" in the "Delphi Bureau" columns (and it's variants) in Rainbow. I don't know if any of the other rags had such listings.
There's a lot of software listed there that was never available commercially and is as good (if not better) as most commercial offerings.

 

 


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 27, 2017 4:50 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] KCBasic

I have been going through all of the Coco magazines and most newslettersand making a list of OS-9 (L1 and L2) software advertised, reviewed, andmentioned in articles.  I then compare that to what is available on theColor Computer Archive.  I will eventually post a list of missing softwareto see if others have it in their archives.  KCBasic was on that list.On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>wrote:> The Manual and the sources would be a nice find. From the review and the> article, the sources came with the program (kcb, tokenize, diskio, &> cmdtable), so who ever had the file, should have the sources. Though it's a> small file and easily diassembled, labeled sources are always nice.>>>>>> 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>>>>>>> --> 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