[Coco] BASIC09 - How good is it?

[Boisy Pitre]

Actually, Basic09 is in the CMDS directory of the NitrOS-9 DriveWire disk image.

Nick, try booting into NitrOS-9 through DriveWire as you would normally do. Then at the shell prompt, type:

basic09

And see if that gets it going.

Merci,
Boisy





On May 14, 2013, at 3:50 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> BASIC09 "sounds" good.
>> 
>> I'd like to have a bit of a play-around but I've never been able to immerse
>> myself into OS-9 enough to get into it.
>> 
>> I think the secret to using OS-9 is to have a harddisk setup. Floppy disk is
>> too awkward and frustrating.
>> 
>> I currently am setup with a 512K CoCo3 with HDB DOS, a 6309 and 2 floppy
>> drives. I have downloaded the Nitros9 disk image for Drivewire and 6309
>> support (the latest versions).
>> 
>> So how do I now attach the BASIC09 DSK image?
>> 
>> Do I have to transfer it to floppy to access it as D0 or can I access
>> another drivewire drive to map the DSK image?
>> 
>> Do I need to add another drivewire drive and if so, how do I do that?
>> 
>> So much to learn before I can even get started.
>> 
>> Nick
> 
> B09 is pretty interesting and a decent way to write software on OS9, imho.
> 
> All you need to do is to mount a disk containing the basic09
> executables and either change your execution directory to point to it,
> or copy them onto your regular /dd disk's CMDS directory.  There are
> just 3, basic09 syscall and runb.
> 
> Rather than using the build in line based editor/debugger (basic09), I
> usually write the code using a modern PC and just use basic09 to
> compile/debug.  However you can do everything on the CoCo.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
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