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

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 December 2003 23:10, David wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:22:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 06 December 2003 22:52, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>> >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.
>>
>> Its just as crash-prone on the coco.  Not of much use really.
>
>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..

I'd imagine that there are some here who would give it a try, so I'd 
not have any objections to a modpatch for it.

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