[Coco] NitrOS9 and 6309 code

Jeff Teunissen deek at d2dc.net
Fri May 31 13:15:15 EDT 2019


On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:03 PM Jeff Teunissen <deek at d2dc.net> wrote:

Yay, quoting myself, how solipsistic.
[snip]
> At this point, I figured that the 6309-marked modules were the ones that wouldn't run on a Motorola chip (hey, cool, an opportunity to do some hacking myself), but then while reading some of the source code I saw that some of those modules (Basic09, gshell) indeed HAD 6309 code in them, but were still marked as suitable for a Moto system. OK, fair enough, I can fix that.
>
> Imagine my surprise when, having changed the module type of gshell from Objct to Obj6309 and transferring the resulting module to my CoCo, it suddenly started failing with Error #234 (Non-existent Module), and wouldn't work until I changed it back.
>
> What gives? [snip]

Curiouser and curiouser -- it seems that NitrOS9 can't run programs
that are marked Obj6309, aborting them with Error 234. Is this a bug,
or is it intentional?


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