[Coco] Quick Pascal

[Tony Schountz]

Yes, now I remember that. I have the coco3.rom and now I have disk12.rom
which I installed in the same directory as the coco3.rom but I still don't
get how to boot OS9. I probably have to give up for now because this is too
complicated for quick start.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 4:53 PM Arthur Flexser via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> DOS is a command added by Disk Basic, and therefore unrecognized by
> Extended Basic.
>
> Art
> ________________________________
> From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Tony Schountz via
> Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2022 6:44 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Cc: Tony Schountz <schountz at gmail.com>; Carlos Camacho <
> idevgames at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Quick Pascal
>
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> system.
>
>
> OK, I have the XRoar emulator running and I have the familiar Coco3 green
> screen with "EXTENDED COLOR BASIC 2.0" and the rest. I have chosen File >
> Drive 1 > Insert Disk... and selected the OS9 Level II disk image
> OS9II_1.DSK. However, when I type DOS at the prompt I get "?SN ERROR". How
> do I get OS9 to boot on this thing?
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 4:19 PM Tony Schountz <schountz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > OK, I thought I could find an emulator and get it up and running quickly,
> > but that does not seem to be the case. I have XRoar for MacOS 10.13 High
> > Sierra binary and in the instructions, it says the coco3.rom should go
> in:
> >
> > Mac OS X ~/Library/XRoar/roms:prefix/share/xroar/roms
> >
> > I don't understand this because the colon causes a problem in naming and
> > "prefix" is italicized.  Can someone clarify? Or, point to another
> emulator
> > that might be easier to use?
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 3:44 PM Tony Schountz <schountz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Carlos,
> >>
> >> I have all the files on my virtual CoCo3 but I'm really swamped with
> work
> >> right now. It may not be until mid- to late-November that I can get them
> >> ready for you. There is not a newer version but I'll provide the BASIC09
> >> code that you can modify.
> >>
> >> Tony
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 5:29 PM Carlos Camacho via Coco <
> >> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> As a fan of Pascal, I've dabled with DEFT Pascal. Recently, I cracked
> >>> open
> >>> Pascal09 and had a look at it's capabilities. Pretty plain Jane without
> >>> sound and graphics libraries. Having looked around I came across Quick
> >>> Pascal by Tony Schountz. It looks ideal as a library for Pascal 09. Is
> >>> Tony
> >>> perhaps on this list too? I'm wondering if there is a newer version
> than
> >>> 0.9? The manual is in the archive but I don't think the disks are. Any
> >>> other libraries for Pascal09 to check out? Also... Outside of DEFT, and
> >>> the
> >>> Pascal for Flex, that's it, right?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Carlos
> >>>
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