[Coco] Rainbow IDE and OS-9 Development

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Jan 22 15:43:42 EST 2007


On Monday 22 January 2007 15:28, Roger Taylor wrote:
>Wanna see something very neat?  Keep in mind that all of this is done
>completely from the Rainbow IDE from the time you edit your source
>code, click Go, and see the pop-up CoCo appear.   No real CoCo is
>needed depending on what kind of hardware testing is needed in your
>final software.
>
>Attached is a jpeg image of M.E.S.S. (called from the Rainbow IDE)
>running NitrOS-9 with my OS-9 disk containing 'rmatest' sitting in
>DRIVE 1 (/d1).
>
Unforch for the jpeg, those are filtered by the listserver.

>Now all I have to do is add the feature to Rainbow that auto-mounts
>an OS-9 system disk in DRIVE 1 and your built disk in DRIVE 2, or
>provide a premade system disk in DRIVE 1 and send your programs to it
> instead.
>
>When the CoCo window appears, type DOS, wait for NitrOS-9 to boot,
>and at the prompt type in the name of your program(s), and
>voila.  Copy the .dsk to a real CoCo floppy when you're done with
>your masterpiece.
>
>Ofcourse, this is the plan and should be possible in the upcoming
>Rainbow IDE 2.0.

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