[Coco] CoCo TALK #18 an introduction to OS9

[Steve Strowbridge]

Great slab of information there Kip, served medium well, and seasoned
perfectly!
Would have loved to have had you on this current OS9 coco TALK, and look
forward to having you on more in the future.

I would like to save a follow up OS9 talk for a time when I have my brain
wrapped around a handful of plug and play images, get them linked on my
site for anyone else to grab, and do some more testing and learning, I'm
lucky to have the likes of Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel as my spiritual
guides on this journey.

So it may be a few weeks, and hopefully you'll be available by then, I will
start to review OS9 games now, too, as I get my hands on them, and figure
out how to load and play them.... baby steps...

So yea, I went on a mad tear and hopefully didn't piss anybody off, I am
really trying to make an effort to make this more accessible, and if all of
those methods already exist, I haven't learned them yet, but hope to.

I'd like to see a few master images available, like ones that can boot up
and play sierra games right away, and others that are optimized for more 80
column multiple terminal modes, etc.

Is there any type of menu system in existence, where you could create easy
links to launch a series of games with a key entry or mouse click?  Besides
Gshell, which is an obvious choice.




Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi James,
> On behalf of all who continually improve the Coco, thanks a bunch!
> That suggestion of yours sounds like an interesting project for someone!
> Hint, Hint...  :)
>
> Kip Koon
> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/User:Computerdoc
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of James Jones
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2017 10:10 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo TALK #18 an introduction to OS9
>
> Hmmm. I would have to say I can't recall any OS-9 user who wasn't/isn't
> willing to share information and help someone get started or get ahead with
> OS-9. The things that Kip, Curtis, and more other people than I can name
> offhand are doing and have done are evidence thereof, and they have my
> thanks and respect.
>
> Acting so as to keep the community small and exclusive would be and is
> counterproductive, and would've been especially so back in the day--all the
> software intimately tied to every wart of the CoCo hardware is a large part
> of what precluded improvements to the CoCo, so you want as many people
> comfortable with OS-9 and writing software for OS-9 as possible.
>
> Remember back when Microsoft Windows started coming with Internet
> Explorer, making it far easier, especially in the days of modems when we
> were all amazed when it only took *four minutes* to download a whole
> megabyte of data, to just go along with IE and not bother to install those
> other browsers, so that Joe Average thought IE *was* the Internet? And how
> it was close to impossible to buy a prebuilt computer that didn't just come
> with Windows, so that Joe Average didn't have to do anything to run
> Windows, and thought Windows was free? In the same way, the CoCo just came
> with whatever flavor of Color BASIC. If Tandy had really been interested in
> promoting OS-9, the CoCo 3 would by default have come with OS-9 on ROM--to
> make it sort of a better equivalent of what people were used to, it could
> boot up in BASIC09, and have some option so that later on as a user gained
> experience and wanted to customize, one could boot from a floppy. (Still
> want to use Color BASIC? Pay extra to get the ROMs with it and get them
> swapped in.)
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