[Coco] RiBBS

[Ron Bihler]

Thanks for the information,
I was able to find the program files on rtsi.com.
I have also been able to get vcc up and running with os9l2 and Nitros9. 
Very nice package.

Now for a few questions,
1) How do I set up a virtual HDD in VCC, I have done a floppy and that might 
have to work.  However RiBBS is very large.
2) How can I transfer the files from windows to this virtual HD?

At least this is a starting point. Darn I can see the hand writting on the 
wall.  How do I break this to the wife that I need another (Old tech) 
computer? :)
VCC is very impressive, are there know issues?

Thanks
Ron Bihler

> I assembled some memory and I/O boards for the MM/1 under contract from
> its second owner, Blackhawk Enterprises.  This was in the time period of
> 1995-1999.  '97-2000 I was living in Elkhart, IN. and I got to go to a
> couple of the ":Last Annual CoCo Fests" in Chicago.  There were problems
> with the Version 2 I/O board, which means we didn't sell many of those.
> I put together maybe 6-10 memory boards during that period though.  I
> still have bare memory boards, I/O boards (there may actually have been
> a fix for the SCSI problem right at the end there), and parts to build a
> few more if there was any need.  At one of those CoCo Fests, probably
> 1999 or 2000, I met David Graham of Blackhawk Enterprises in person for
> the first time, and I haven't seen or heard from him since.
>
> I still have my MM/1, and it works, as of a couple months ago.  I did a
> little programming on it, mostly modifications of Andrzej Kotanski's
> JPEG viewer program.  I added Joel Hegberg's clipboard library to it,
> and wrote a program that would save an image from the clipboard as an
> IFF.  So you could decode a JPEG, copy it into the clipboard, and then
> save it as a much faster-loading CLUT IFF file.  I think I lost my
> source code for the modifications I did to the JPEG viewer, but there
> wasn't much to that.  I think I recently found my SAVEIFF code.  I had
> even forgotten that I wrote it until I looked at the source file.  Duh.
> That's what 10 years will do to you.
>> Does anyone have RiBBS code, might try to see it again on Emulation?
>> Most of the information was on Compuserve - how things have changed.
> Did it ever get posted on ftp.rtsi.com?  That's still around.
>> Can anyone recall the person involved with the MM1 doing the port -
>> not sure if it even was finished.  He was located in Canada.
>> How well does OS9 or Nitro9 what I gather the new update work under
>> emulation?
>>
> 6809 (Nitr)OS-9 works great on a CoCo emulator.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, there is no emulator that will run
> OS-9/68K.  I tried to boot Personal OS-9 for the Atari ST on several
> different Atari emulators, but no joy.  Even ARANYM, which runs
> Debian-m68K won't boot it.  Bob Devries (I think) says that Atari OS-9
> actually makes use of the Atari ROM code, which one would think would
> insulate it further from the underlying hardware and make it even less
> machine-dependent.  Maybe I'm just not using the proper ROM images.
>
> Somebody has made a CD-i emulator for MS-Windows, but it only runs some
> of the games (last time I tried it) and is cripple-ware.
>> Anyway I am a bit older, might be smarter, but have way less time :)
>>
> Sounds all too familiar.
>> Too bad the Hero 2000 was not a 6809 as that would make it more fun :)
>>
> The Hero, or the 6809?
>
> JCE
>
>> Ron Bihler
>>
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