[Coco] Booting NITROS9

[William Mikrut]

Thank you... I won't likely run at those speeds all the time... but it was
fun to try.

Now to shift my assembly learning from DECB to NOS9!

On Mar 29, 2017 7:35 AM, "William Carlin" <whcarlinjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> The higher speeds tend to take up a significant amount of the host machine
> CPU time.  My I7 laptop sounds like it's getting ready to take off at those
> speeds.
>
> Of course the 0.89/1.78MHz is for proper emulation of games in Disk Basic.
> However, with NitrOS9 the optimal speed for games is the 3.57MHz (Sierra
> adventure games). I do multiples of that usually sticking to the 7.14MHz or
> the 14.28MHz for interactive stuff and just pushing the "Turbo" button F8
> for maximum speed when appropriate (large file copies, de-archiving,
> compiling, etc.)
>
>
> William Carlin
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:50 PM, William Mikrut <wmikrut72 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Actually after reading the posts as of late -- I am intrigued by the info
> > of the 6309.
> > I am able to boot using 6309 and overclocking @ 178MHz... it boots
> quickly!
> >  :)
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Melanie and John Mark Mobley <
> > johnmarkmelanie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > William Mikrut,
> > >
> > > VCC has an option to emulate a 6809 or a 6309.
> > > Change the option and see what happens.
> > > I think that the 6309 is the better choice for most thing.
> > > This is just a hunch.
> > > Some versions of NitrOS-9 will not run with a 6809.
> > > You may want to try running 1x speed instead of 100x speed.
> > >
> > > John Mark Mobley
> > >
> > >
> > >
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