[Coco] Min load on NitroOs9

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Mon Apr 27 21:52:33 EDT 2020


> On Apr 27, 2020, at 8:00 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
> And, you are right on TMODE (and XMODE for that matter) - the syntax was changed on newer versions by Bruce Isted, and the NitrOS9 Project people, and it does break compatibility with older programs.

Unfortunate, but it does move OS-9/6809 closer to standard OS-9 these days.  My MiniBanners program used tmode to turn off echo and it doesn’t now ;-) so I need to fix that too.

> wasn’t available to change. On EOU, we have TMOD2 / XMOD2 being the new versions, and TMODE / XMODE as the original versions. Hopefully by the time Beta 6 is out, we will get the “fat binary” versions done that handle both syntaxes, and eliminate all the compatibility problems.

Huzzah!  I won’t have to redo MiniBanners! :) :) :)

		— Allen




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