[Coco] [Color Computer] OS-9 Editor and NitrOS-9 Download

[Ray Watts]

David wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:22:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
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>>On Saturday 06 December 2003 22:52, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
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>>>Scred was an OSK editor that came with the MM/1 and was an official
>>>Microware product.  Didn't know it had been back-ported to 6809. 
>>>Those who used it on 68K systems said it was very crash-prone. 
>>>--Mike K.
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>>Its just as crash-prone on the coco.  Not of much use really.
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>I found the cause of one crash - actually, I think it was the same thing
>in both the coco and OSK editors.  The pointer to one of the lookup
>tables for something was defined as a signed integer rather than an
>unsigned integer.  ALT-<key> input was, of course, defined as a negative
>number, causing a jump to a wrong location.  I posted a patch for this
>on Compuserve and/or maybe Delphi, plus some other places.  If anyone
>still uses coco scred, I can post the modpatch file to fix it.  I
>attempted to do the same thing for OSK, but never was able to track this
>one down. I went to ved anyway..
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David,  I also use VED usually, however I also have SCRED and may as 
well fix it.  I would like to see the patch posted.

Griz

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