[Coco] Tandy OS-9 Level 2

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 13:19:12 EST 2015


I wouldn't expect drivewire to work with Tandy OS9.  It relies on several
bug fixes that are only present in NitrOS9.
 On Jan 10, 2015 1:17 PM, "Bill Nobel" <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> As for the S-Video, use a adapter to get to composite.  It isn’t RGB but,
> can’t expect more.
>
> OS-9/Nitros9 does not need 80 columns it runs in any format.
>
> I use Drivewire & Bill Pierce’s MShell heavily, between My Mac, PC and the
> server, ALL my drives are centralized.
>
> Bill Nobel
>
> > On Jan 10, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > I’m curious about Tandy OS-9 Level 1 and 2.
> >
> > Even though I have Chris Hawke’s RGB-to-S-Video adapter, I do not have a
> monitor that will accept S-Video as an input, so I have another
> S-Video-to-VGS adapter going into a Dell LCD monitor.  Hence, the 80 column
> display on my CoCo 3 is pretty difficult to read.
> >
> > Does Tandy OS-9 Level 1 and/or Level 2 require the display to be 80
> columns, or can I use the default 32 column display (or maybe only the 40
> column display)?
> >
> > Further, since I am using HDBDOS and Drivewire, is there a .DSK file for
> Tandy OS-9 Level 1 or 2 that I can use with Drivewire, or would I need to
> use a physical floppy disk drive?
> >
> > Thanks very much, in advance, for your attention and response!
> >
> > smp
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> > Bedford, NH  03110
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> >
> >
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