Happy New Year Everybody!!!

————————————
Zack C Sessions
ColorSystems

“I am Homer of Borg, prepare to be assimi … OOOOHHH, DOUGHNUTS!”

Randy, Ken, Joel and other interested parties -

First some good news. I just received 2 additional orders for the G-WINDOWS
port. That makes 12. Only 8 to go.

Went over all the pertinent messages and Mike Sweet’s file. Think I have a
little better undertanding of K-Windows.

I’m concentrating on ways G-WINDOWS can co-exist with K-Windows under all
circumstances. I see no reason G-WINDOWS can’t be started from a K-Windows
screen. When exiting G-WINDOWS, the user would return to the original screen.
There should be no need for a separate bootdisk. However, the Fn keys would
not be used to exit G-WINDOWS; rather, it appears the best way is to exit is
to add the exit routine to one of G-WINDOWS’ menus.

Because of the way wcf traps keyboard certain information, the output of
snddrv.mm1 will have to go directly to G-WINDOWS when G-WINDOWS is the active
screen. A little tinkering with the respective paths should prevent K-Windows
from doing unexpected things to G-WINDOWS. When exiting G-WINDOWS, all paths
will be restored. Since I’ll be mucking around with paths, it might be
desirable to tinker with the mouse path as well.

The above should work fine so long as no attempts are made to hot-key between
screens. Hot-keying poses another set of problems. Starting G-WINDOWS
is no problem but probably the use a separate screen to start G-WINDOWS, as
suggested by Joel, is the way to go. A menu item can be used to send
K-Windows the code to return to the original screen from which other screens
could be selected. At the same time, paths would be restored. So far, no
problem. When the user tries to return to G-WINDOWS, it doesn’t know it is
the active process – this is the problem.

The method I’m leaning towards to solve the hot-key problem is to have
G-WINDOWS start a separate process (call it snoopy) when it’s being
initialized. Snoopy’s main function would be to do the necessary ‘switching’
to insure keyboard and mouse information went to the proper manager. To do
this, snoopy would query wcf periodically to find which screen is active.
This solution is rather crude (brute force) but will require no changes
to K-Windows. One big question is what is meant by ‘periodically’. The
period wants to long enough so the overhead introduced is not perceptable.
But it wants to be short enough so switching between G-WINDOWS and other
screens ‘feels’ instantaneous to the user. Snoopy could also trigger redraw-
ing the G-WINDOWS screen in case it had been corrupted by inadvertantly drag-
ging another screen to the screen displaying G-WINDOWS.

There is a more elegant solution but this requires a change to K-Windows
(wcf). Simply, there would be a data module associated with K-Windows. A
process that didn’t want to avail itself of the editing and trapping features
of wcf would write its screen number in the data module. Wcf would be
modified so keyboard/mouse information would follow one of 2 paths. The first
path would be the existing path which includes the editing/trapping features.
The second path would by-pass these features and pass all the keyboard/mouse
information to the process. The second path would be selected for those
processes which have identified themselves in the data module. One other
capability must be added when in the by-pass mode. Something along the use
of a ‘meta-character’ would be necessary to permit changing screens. When
in the by-pass mode, wcf would examine input for this character. If present,
the data following would follow the normal path. It might be desirable to
include this character in the data module so a process could specify its own,
unique metacharacter. Not only would G-WINDOWS benefit from this (makes for
a straight forward port) but programmers could avail themselves of the keys
now prohibited to them.

Ed Gresick – DELMAR CO

Betty and I wish all a very Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Betty and Ed Gresick

Does anyone have any info or specs on a Miniscribe 8425SA 20meg SCSI drive?
Any help is appreciated. ]]> http://www.coco3.com/community/1994/12/scsi-5/feed 4 http://www.coco3.com/community/1994/12/ge-7 http://www.coco3.com/community/1994/12/ge-7#comments Wed, 28 Dec 1994 02:24:00 +0000 Delphi http://www.coco3.com/community/1994/12/ge-7/ 91118 28-DEC 02:24 General Information
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From: WA2EGP To: ALL

Is it me? I wish uploads would say what machine/OS (OS-9 vs. OS-9/68000)
the thing would run on. I get tired downloading something only to find that
it is for the CoCo (No offense here, the same could be said in reverse) and
I try to use it on an OSK box. Is it possible that OSK or OS9 could be used
as a keyword? That used to be done more in the past. I think a lot of users
would appreciate it, especially newer users. Also, put vital info in the
docs rather than in the program description. I have had a couple of d/l where
something was missing from the docs but it was in the program description.
That would really drive someone crazy. I know I’m being picky but there were
a lot of times where I wish these things were done……and I would have less
gray hair and more hair (Grin).

If you have a CD-i player, RUN, don’t walk, to your favorite CD-i store
and pick up Dragon’s Lair II. This is the most visually stunning game I have
ever seen on any home system or in the arcade, bar none. It is simply
incredible. If you like Dragon’s Lair, the sequel makes the original look
like Pong.

I say this is the 2nd best game ever created. Space Ace is still first,
simply because, as a character, Ace is a lot more fun to watch than Dirk.

..Eric…

> I doubt 3DO will catch on then.

Don’t speak so fast. Unfortunately 3DO is posing an immeasureable threat
to CD-i. In most stores I go to (and from messages on CompuServe’s CD-i
section, this is a very widespread phenomenon) salesmen are pushing 3DO
bigtime. In particular, even people who come in looking at getting a CD-i
player are being turned by salsmen towards the 3DO. I’ve talked to many of
these salesmen, and not only are they diehard 3DO supporters, many of them
own the system themselves and have a big interest in seeing it succeed.

> A good deal for CD-i was Sears and a couple of the chain stores…

Unfortunately at many of the Sears stores they rarely even turn the
machine on. Even when they do they don’t run anything impressive on it and
no one working there knows squat about it. Chains like Best Buy and
Incredible Universe are Better but even these places still don’t push CD-i
nearly as much as ANY of the other systems they carry and they don’t stock
even a decent supply of CD-i titles, making it look as though CD-i doesn’t
have a lot available for it. Last time I walked into Circuit City they had
placed a 3DO in the CD-i custom display kiosk. Talk about a slap in the
face!

..Eric…

please read 91104, I meant to send to all 3 of u fellows. Ray N. Year.

Fellows I’ve tried all your sugestions and still have 600 baud printing.
Please read FO’s 91095,91096 and 91099. believe you’ll see the diference
of opinion…also I can change the /p module per CHYDE, but it doesn’t
change either the 600 or 1200 baud in the control panel. The control
panel sees to dominate, but u can’t elimenate it.

basic) that is program
to set the font to coorespondence 12 with bold. then I load the DM disk
to print about 4 pages of a new lease. Ray

Forwarded from SKEPTIC listserv:

————————- snip ————————-
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 18:52:01 -0500
From: Garrison Hilliard
Subject: Pentium

Q&A: THE PENTIUM FDIV BUG

Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 1.99904274017, but that’s close enough for non-technical people.

Q: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant?
A: A mad scientist.

Q: What’s another name for the “Intel Inside” sticker they put on
Pentiums?
A: The warning label.

Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
A: Successive approximations.

Q: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply
is to:
1) Divide
2) ROUND
3) RANDOM
4) On a Pentium, all of the above
A: Number 4.

Q: What algorithm did Intel use in the Pentium’s floating point divider?
A: “Life is like a box of chocolates.” (Source: F. Gump of Intel)

Q: Why didn’t Intel call the Pentium the 586?
A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got
585.999983605.

Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754 and
854 for floating point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft designed using
a Pentium, what is the correct pronunciation of “IEEE”?
A: Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!

TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM
—————————————————————————

9.9999973251 It’s a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug
8.9999163362 It’s Close Enough, We Say So
7.9999414610 Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes
6.9999831538 You Don’t Need to Know What’s Inside
5.9999835137 Redefining the PC — and Mathematics As Well
4.9999999021 We Fixed It, Really
3.9998245917 Division Considered Harmful
2.9991523619 Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?
1.9999103517 We’re Looking for a Few Good Flaws
0.9999999998 The Errata Inside

For those skeptical of Intel…
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Merry Christmas everyone!

Hi all,

In case your wondering why I haven’t made the least bit of noise around
here, my account was suspended last month and as you know it takes weeks
for Delphi to process things. So here I am. I know you are all jumping for
joy.

_____________________________________________________________________________
|Dave Pellerito – | Posted using InfoXpress |
|Digigrade Productions – Digital Services | with an MM/1 running OSK |
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| *********** Compact disks, the greatest idea since television *********** |
|___________________________________________________________________________|

Hi all! This is Jim Vestal aka JEVESTAL, I’m borrowing a friend’s account
to post this so please don’t send me email on this account.

I’m posting this due to my account being shut down as of today until at
least the first week of Januany. I may not be able to read the forum
messages until then and won’t be able to make the cool confs until then
too.

If you send email to JEVESTAL account I won’t get it until I have access
again.

You can email me on my BBS (Narnia BBS), the internet email address is:

jevestal%narnia@sandv.chi.il.us

or

jevestal@narnia.citrus.sac.ca.us

I’ll be monitoring the CoColist via a local bulletin board.

Wishing all you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, see you all in 1995!

Jim

I managed to get ded from the app files..BUT I dont know how to quite
understand u’re instructs. The deskmate dos gets all those icons. I
tried my os9 System disk then changed to the deskmate desk using the
chx chd routine but typing OS9>ded os9boot gets me errors. Could U
explain when I place the SYS disk in or the DESKM disk in when etc.?
I’m trying to change the baud in the DESKMATE disk to 2400–maybe
I haven’t explained that very well. I wouldn’t blame U if U give up;
what with christmas and all. Have a good one—-:-) Ray

Dear friends:
Once again it is almost Christmastide. I want to take the
opportunity to thank all of you who have given so many gifts
to me and the rest of the OS-9 community this past year. Your
willingness to share programming and technical knowledge…your
words of support and encouragment to newcomers…your kind notes
to me at various times, both to assist when I have a computer
related need, or just to say hello. My chosen life, that as a
monk, allows me few luxuries. Having taken a vow of poverty, I
do not have a great deal of personal possessions, and as far as
the world is concerned, I am a poor man. But, when I count all
of you, my friends, I am quite wealthy indeed.

At Midnight mass, on Christmas eve, it is customary for a priest
to remember family and friends during the prayers. I want to
assure that you will all be in my prayers that night. As has
become my own custom, if there are any that you would like me to
remember in my prayers that night, any special intentions for
yourselves, your friends, and family, please send me an email
message with your intentions and I will be pleased to remember
them in prayer.

I know that I have said this many times, but the OS-9 community
is a very special part of my life. I look foreward to the Fests,
and other times when we can get together. I wish all of you a
blessed holiday time, and a peacefull and prosperous New Year.

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:: With all best wishes, :::::: 2 Kings 2:23-24 :::
:: Brother Jeremy, CSJW :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: OS9 Users Group Treasurer :: revwcp@delphi.com ::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CIS – 76477,142 :::
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I have a problem booting when I first power up!I will turn my computer on
and everything goes on and up to speed(including my hard drives) and I
try to boot. It starts with floppy then reads the startup from hard drive.
It fails at first but when I turn off /h0 and boot straight from floppy
and do a dcheck of /h0 then reboot,IT DOES!!!Why didn’t it do it the
first time?Oh yea I did turn on /h0 before I did a dcheck of it. It also
sometimes boots right when after I have had the computer running in rsdos
for some time(about 30mins to an hour).I know that more info will
probably be needed to solve this dilema so I will answere all questions
as best I can!

Hi everyone,

I’m in the process of adding VT-100 support to LinkUp and need some type
of documentation that outlines the various VT-100 codes and what they do,
as well as how to respond to them if necessary.

I would appreciate any files one could e-mail me.

I own a CGP-220, recently i got a 486 system and there isn’t a driver for
this printer. If i remember right , this printer was also made by canon,
with a radio shack label on it, whats the canon model # for the cgp-220?
anyone know?

I have been using the Tandy Deskmate program lately to prepare a rental
lease etc. The Baud rate is 600 which is fairly slow on my DMP-107
printer. I would like to change it to 2400 baud (the program that is).
but I sure need some help. Frank Swygert suggested I ask on OS9 forum.
I am familiar with OS9 ( not a hacker) and have used Supercomm with all
the new parches in the boot file ok……RAY (2RSMITH)

Marty, maybe you can help me put an end to my current monitor problem. I
always have pix at startup but after about 10minutes the screen goes black.
I can get the pix back with a blow to the side and that works a couple of times
but then it goes down for the count. The monitor is combination of two different

Magnavoxs, namely a tube from one model, the guts from another. I bought it for
dirt at Atlanta cause my monitor (CM8) had developed loss of hoz hold. Is this
an overheating problem or a break in the circuit board?
I plan to get a Sony after Christmas but I would like to get to the cause
of this problem if possible. I know I’m not giving you a wealth of useable
info here, but maybe you can suggest where the problem might live.
One more symptom is the picture starts dancing or shrinking a little
before it goes black. Thats it. If I leave it off for a half hour, I’m back
in business again. Thanx Charlie

I need to know exactly what kind of physical video connector
the MM/1 uses, and what its pin out is. I’ve been told
that it uses a standard DB 9 female connector on the MM/1.
IS this so?

Does the MM/1 put out the same sort of RGB analog video at 15.75 KHz
H sync rate and 60 Hz vertical sync rate that is put out by the CoCo 3?
That is what I had thought. But some just sent me a pin out for
the MM/1 that would imply it did NOT put out analog video at all,
but instead put out IBM style CGA video. Can someone here
clarify this for me?

Thanks for any help you can give me here.

—marty

OS-9 Late Night
Conference Schedual
For December AND January
Date Time(EST) Topic
————————————————————-
December 5, 1994 10:00 PM Open Forum

December 12, 1994 10:00 PM Open Forum

December 19, 1994 10:00 PM OS-9: The Year in Review
What exactly was
accomplished in ’94 and
what can we improve on?
With CD-I hitting the
mainstream with good
success and Personal OS-9
Software starting to come
of age, it gives us
plenty to talk about!

December 26, 1994 10:00 PM Open Forum

January 2, 1994 10:00 PM OS-9 in ’95!
What lies ahead for
OS-9 and the OS-9 User’s
Group in the Coming year?

January 9, 1994 10:00 PM Open Forum

January 16, 1994 10:00 PM Countdown to Chicago!
Come join members of
the Glennside Color
Computer Club as we
discuss the upcoming
Chicago Cocofest, which
takes place on April
29,30 1994!

January 23, 1994 10:00 PM Open Forum

January 30, 1994 10:00 PM Open Forum

>Chris<

Hello All, and Happy Holidays!

Quite unfortunately, my CoCos hard drive crashed yesterday 12/11. What
a bummer. I do not know how long it will be before I am back on-line with
my Trusty Little CoCo. I still have on-line access with the 486 non-Intel
PC at work so I can read the forum just before I have to start slaving. I
would like to know some tid-bits of info from anyone who has logged on with
a PC. I am using a program that emmulates ProComm, it came with a modem I
had bought for my CoCo. If anyone is familiar with the OS-9 program,
TelStar, it works similar. I have these wierd characters that precede dis-
plays such as these forum messages. There is a total of 10. I do not know
how to replicate a “right arrow” so I will use this < -. These are the char-
acters: < -(1;1H<-(2H I have gone into "Using Delphi" and cannot find any-
thing that would help me there. The only thing that I can think of is term-
inal emmulation. I cannot figure out how to change it in this program. Any
help will be most appreciated. See ya.

LONG LIVE OS-9! ** In whatever form it is in!

-= 01GEN40 =-

Has anyone had any luck downloading palm via the gopher section of this SIG?
It seems to think that “palm22.lzh” on chestnut is a subdirectory rather than
a file.

Opinions herein are solely those of their respective authors.

Clipper Chip: Big Brother Inside

Hi all,
I’m trying to develop an installation program for applications
written for the MM1. To date, I have a point and click shell that
allows user to specify from what drive, to what drive, name of
program, etc. Once the parameters are established, the install
program runs a script that is provided by the programmer. The script,
of course, is responsible for actually moving the files from
installation disk to wherever.

What do you guys make of this general plan? It is hard to do error
checking in the script file from the install program. (Tips?) Also Joel H
discussed copying files from an installation disk to a pipe and
then from pipe to target disk in a 68 Micros column. I tried that
approach but quickly ran into the limitation that you can’t create
a directory inside a pipe or do a backup of a disk into a pipe. Least
I kept getting error messages! Seemed to mean that the install program
would have to assume that all the component files of the application
program would be in the same directory (/d0) on the installation disk. I
really dont want to make that assumption.

Thoughts appreciated

Bests
—TedJaeger

I need some help in interpeting the following data. It is a dump of a
message exported by RiBBS Export by the name of msg1.

I’m working on a program that will put RiBBS one step closer to being
able to act as a hub and need to be able to generate messages from within
that will get bundled for the appropriate net/node.

I have the FSC0001 document that describes various formats of various FIDO
files, but there are some things in the below that don’t seem to be
documented. Note the lines with *’s. These are what don’t seem to be
documented, nor do I have a clue as to how to generate them.

Addr 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 0 2 4 6 8 A C E
—- —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —————-
0000 0200 0100 0400 FE7A FE7A 0000 0000 3039 …….z.z….09
0010 2044 6563 2039 3420 2030 303A 3034 3A33 Dec 94 00:04:3
0020 3100 4461 7272 656E 2043 6C69 6674 0044 1.Darren Clift.D
0030 6176 6520 4761 6E74 7A00 4372 6561 7469 ave Gantz.Creati
0040 6E67 2061 2074 6573 7420 6D65 7373 6167 ng a test messag
0050 6500 0149 4E54 4C20 313A 3331 3438 362F e..INTL 1:31486/ *
0060 3420 313A 3334 362F 392E 310D 014D 5347 4 1:346/9.1..MSG *
0070 4944 3A20 313A 3334 362F 392E 3140 6669 ID: 1:346/9.1@fi *
0080 646F 6E65 742E 6F72 6720 3865 3564 3030 donet.org 8e5d00 *
0090 6430 0D01 5049 443A 2052 6942 4253 2076 d0..PID: RiBBS v *
00A0 322E 3130 0D54 6869 7320 6973 206A 7573 2.10.This is jus *
00B0 7420 6120 7465 7374 206D 6573 7361 6765 t a test message
00C0 2074 6F20 7374 7564 7920 7768 696C 6520 to study while
00D0 6174 7465 6D70 7469 6E20 746F 2063 7265 attemptin to cre
00E0 6174 6520 6D79 206F 776E 0D0A 6672 6F6D ate my own..from
00F0 2061 2070 726F 6772 616D 2E0D 0A20 200D a program… .

Addr 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 0 2 4 6 8 A C E
—- —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —————-
0100 0A20 2020 2020 2044 6176 650D 0A20 0D0A . Dave.. ..
0110 2D2D 2D20 5269 4242 5320 7632 2E31 300D — RiBBS v2.10. *
0120 0A00 ..

The bytes from offset $52 to $A4 seem to have no documentation
or explanation. Also, am I correct in assumming that the bytes
from offset $10C to $121 are add ons to the text I typed?

What I have in mind is similar to the auto messages generated by TicNote
and AutoFrl, but in this case the messages need to generated for export
rather than for import.

Can anyone shed some light (in an Inside RiBBS type fashion) on the above
data or similar?

I’d really appreciate any help I can get. Thanks
Dave

I’m trying to get a 2nd HD working and having problems. The first thing that
I notice is the drive indicator light is on as soon as I power up. Of course
that shouldn’t be. After I configured an H1 module and put it in my boot, I
booted and did a dir /h1. Lock up! Any thoughts on the subject will be
appreciated. I’m using 2 ST277-Ns and a Kenton controller. The jumper
sleeve for H1 is on the first set of pins closest to the center. Since H1
is the first drive on the cable, I removed the 3 sets of pins off the
bottom of the drive. Thats all I can think of now. Thanx Charlie

I recall reading here that someone has Sony monitors for sale and that these
can be used on the Coco3. I’m in need of a monitor and need the party’s
name. Can anyone supply that for me. Thanx Charlie

While visiting a friend yesterday, I saw a commercial for Burn: Cycle.
I was amazed to see an actual well done ad for the CD-I platform. I think
it was on the Comedy Channel.

Hugo

OS-9 Late Night
Open Forum
Monday December 5,1994 at 10:00pm (est)

Please come on in, for the usual laid back chat of any
kind. Since some of the more knowledgeable OS-9′ers and Coco
Hackers tend to attend these conferences, an Open Forum like
the ones we have been having are good times to come in and
ask that question that’s been nagging you or holding up your
latest programming project. Btw, hopefully I will soon have
the schedual for December and January all set. I have one
confirmed special conference coming up in January on the
16th. Members of the ‘Glenside Color Computer Club’(Brian
please correct me if the name is wrong), will be on hand to
discuss the upcoming Cocofest in Chicago! This is one you
won’t want to miss, especially if your looking for details
on how to be there. Btw, if you do need details on the fest,
you can send email to ‘Theschu’. He is the president of
Glenside, and can help fill you in!

See Ya
>Chris<

Now available! The “Inside 2-Meg” booklet from DISTO. Its a full description
of the DISTO 2-Meg Kit. Schematic diagrams, PAL listing and a full chip by
chip description of how it works. Send $20 + $2.50 S/H to DISTO 1710 Depatie,
St. Laurent Quebec, Canada H4L 4A8. -Tony.

Boisy, wouold you know if the Panasonic CDO machines are anything like the
CD-i? I mean as far as compatibility with games or movies. Someone here
recently purchased one for their kids (I told them CD-i would be better
supported through Sears!!). It is similar in concept, but I think I read
somewhere that it isn’t compatible with CD-i games. But are the movies?
I seem to recal that the movies aren’t a Phillips standard, so they may be
compatible. Any comments?

Dear Friends:

I am trying to help out a friend who needs to obtain
a 20-30 meg MFM 5-1/4″ half-height hard drive. Something
like an St-225 or St-238 would be fine. Please let me
know price and shipping terms.

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:: With all best wishes, :::::: 2 Kings 2:23-24 :::
:: Brother Jeremy, CSJW :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: OS9 Users Group Treasurer :: revwcp@delphi.com ::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CIS – 76477,142 :::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

28-NOV-1994 02:50:07.30
From: IN%”jeffv@PHYSICS.UBC.CA” “Jeff Vavasour”
Subj: CoCo 3 Emulator, IMPORTANT

Well, with others putting out notices about the CoCo 3 emulator,
there are a few things I feel I should post to clear up:
1. The CoCo 3 emulator is available only by registration.

2. Registration info is found in the *new* ver 1.40 release of
the CoCo 2 emulator, which should appear on SimTel FTP mirror
sites shortly. The file is coco2-14.zip (*not* coco2-13.zip).
One SimTel site is oak.oakland.edu, the directory is
pub/msdos/emulator.

3. Those who contributed to Rick Cooper’s CoCo Emulator Bounty
Escrow Fund will receive credit up to the full value of the
registration fee, $25. (I’m taking the monthly report in CFDM’s
Forum as authoritative on who contributed, and how much. Please
contact Rick if there is any error in your entry in this report.)

4. Those who contributed in excess of the $25 to the Fund will
receive a typeset printed version of the manual with their copy.
(This is a bounus available *only* to those who contributed to the
Fund in excess of $25.)

5. Those who did not contribute to the Fund may obtain a copy of
the emulator for $25 by following the instructions in Section 8 of
the CoCo 2 emulator’s documentation.
(The file is COCO.DOC in coco2-14.zip.)

6. Please take time to follow verify that you have the correct
system requirements by reading the COCO.DOC file and following the
test procedure for your VGA card and disk drives.

Please feel free to repost this message anywhere you can. There
appear to be rumours and speculation circulating already, which
I’d like to clear up.

Again, the CoCo 3 emulator is not in itself shareware. The CoCo
2 emulator is shareware in that, if you register it, you get the
CoCo 3 emulator. The CoCo 3 emulator is only available to those
who register, and is not freely distributable.

- Jeff

P95 (these are Hewlett Packard palmtops)

There has been qpuite a flurry of messages about theh release of Jeff’s
CC3 Emulator. Most of it (but only most) true. But little has
upght up in a firpestoem
of others ideas. Some pure speculation! It is NOT PD, and SHOULD NOT
BE in downloads anywhere!
Jr
Jeff has written a heck of a program,, give him a day to think things through
and there will be a fair chance for everyone.

Terry Simons UPGRADE Editor

I have the source to the latest version of zip/unzip (5.0). If anyone
would like to port it to OSK, please let me know and I’ll send you the
source.

I would do it, but am involved in too many things as it is. It sure
would be nice to have this latest version ported over.

OS-9 Late Night
Monday November 28, 1994 at 10:00 PM(EST)
Topic:Open Forum

As usual, come one,come all! There is quite a bit going on in
our little ‘Cult Society’ as of late. Boisy Pitre has a new
terminal program for the MM/1, CD-I is really going over well,
and I’m gonna have a TON of Basic09 questions, so please be
there!

By the way, I should hopefully have the schedual for BOTH
December and January shortly after this Monday’s conference, so
do keep your eyes open for that.

See Ya!
>Chris<

512K CoCo III System for Sale
———————————————

> HARDWARE <
512K CoCo III w/6309 PowerBoost installed, spare 6809s.
(Practical Peripherals 512K Board)
64K CoCo II “F” Board Design
Magnavox 8CM515 RGB/comp. Monitor
FD-500 Disk Drive Case & Controller
w/two TEAC FD-55BR drives installed (720K DS)
CoCo III upgraded MultiPak
Commplus 2400 BPS Modem
RS-232 Pak w/socketted 6551A chip.
ORCH-90 Stereo Music Pak
CCR-81 Cassette Recorder
Blue Streak Serial to Parallel Printer Interface
2 ea. Deluxe Joysticks (two button)
2 ea Regular Joysticks (one button)
Two button mouse.
One button mouse

> SOFTWARE <
OS-9 Level Two MultiVue Deskmate 3
Home Publisher
Dynacalc for OS-9 C Compiler For OS-9 Basic09
Disk Editor Assembler
Phantomgraph Bio-Sphere Rogue
Rescue on Fractulus
Koronis Rift Microscopic Mission Sub Battle
Robot Odyssey I
Carmen SanDiego Kings Quest III CoCo Max III
Crystal City
Telewriter-64 Telepatch Gwana-Bwana
Micro-Ilustrator
InterBank Incident PitStop II Shamus
Bugs
Galagon Buzzard Bait Cubix
The King
Zeus Bedlam Raaka-Tu
The Third Rainbow Book of Adventures

> ROM PAKS <
Rampage Predator Rad Warrior
Robocop
Malcolm Mortar Mind-Roll Super Pitfall
Football II
Castle of Tharoggad Silpheed StarBlaze
Project Nebula
Microbes Poltergiest

> BOOKS, MANUALS, ETC. <
Technical Reference Manual for CoCo II
Technical Reference Manual for CoCo III
The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9
Assembly Language Graphics – Don Inman & Kurt Inman
6809 Assembly Language Programing – Lance Leventhal
Disk BASIC Unravelled
Extended Color BASIC Unravelled
Super Color BASIC Unravelled

100+ Public Domain Programs for RSDOS & OS-9

NOTES:
All equipment and software is in COMPLETE working condition and
the system was working reliably last time used.
Everything except a few items has the original packaging.
Am asking $350 for this “bundled” sale. Includes the shipping.
Everything sold “as-is”. No warranties implied or intended.

Rick McNabb

Contact me at the following addresses:
DELPHI – RICKMAC
Compuserve – 76675,3612
Internet – RICKMAC@DELPHI.COM

Happy Thanksgiving to all! The holiday season is here again, thanx to everyone
for making the “CoCo experience” very interesting and informative.

Will be putting up a 512K/6309 CoCo3 system for sale. anyone interested?
Will post a classified within the week. Comes with a Magnavox monitor and
almost everything else ‘cept a hard drive and a printer.

Also have an “F” board CoCo2 with 64K. All details will be in the classified
ad I will post.
Rick McNabb

Hi All!

Just a quick note. My new utility for reading directories and copying files
from BOTH CDRom and CD-i discs (one utility) has been uploaded to delphi
and should be available soon. Requires a CDRom reader, driver, and decriptor
(anyone’s should work, mine included).

BUT my CDRom File Manager (CDF) will make it obsolete very soon!!!!

Chris

:-> :-> :-> :-> :-> :-> :-> Chris “HAWKSoft” < -: <-: <-: <-: <-: <-: <-:

Delphi: HAWKSOFT Internet: HAWKSOFT@DELPHI.COM

******************< Uploaded w/ InfoXpress vr. 1.02.00 >******************

Is there a version of OS9 that will run on an Intel 486 ? Also has there been
any statement for OS9 and the Power PC ?

***OS-9 Late Night***
Open Topic
Monday November 21, 10:00 PM est

I might not be there myself, but I’ll try to show. Since I have
to be up very early Tuesday morning, I can’t really spend much time
online, but since it’s just an open conference anyway, you won’t need
me there

Last week was a pretty good conference, so let’s keep up the
momentum!

See Ya
>Chris<

Hi all,

I thought I’d let everyone know about my latest CD-i acquisitions

o Naked Gun 33 1/3 — The MPEG encoding on this movie is *VERY* good.
I was very impressed. Like other movies, this one came on two discs.
This movie has VIDEO CD across the bottom; I presume that this movie
would be able to be played in a dedicated Video CD player. A very
good job on this one.

o Sargon Chess — Very very cool! I’m not a great chess player, but
thought this classic program would be cool to have. It has a very
nice tutorial on chess playing and strategy for beginners. There
are three modes: Novice, Beginner and Expert. You can play against
“Sargon” as white or black, or let Sargon play against himself. You
can also edit the board with pieces and locations you want. This
feature is great to examine strategy. Again, Sargon can play against
himself even in this mode.

You can select either a 2D or 3D chess perspective. 3D has several
chess sets (marble, wood, etc.) There’s nice music or comment by
Sargon when making a move, or you can opt for silence. You also have
the option of timing moves and viewing elapsed or cumulative time, or
no time at all.

I ordered Clue (based on the Parker Brothers board game) but haven’t gotten
it yet. As soon as I do I’ll post my observations.
–
Boisy G. Pitre__ __ __ Delphi: BOISY
|_ _| \ \/ / CompuServe: 74464,3005
I use… _| |_ > < Internet: boisy@os9er.waukee.ia.us
|_____|NFO/_/\_\PRESS 1.2.0 OS-9 — King of Operating Systems

Can anyone tell me the pinout of a pc clone type parallel printer cable?
I is the kind that hase a 25pin dsub at on end and a 36pin centronics
connector at the other.
Thanks,
Wayne

e Haaland of Hyper-tech software is still around and
if ther where any updates to MVCanvas from version 2? I would like to see
world.
Don

Anybody know how many MOTD’s came out since May? I’ve only received one.
Just wondering if I was “automatically” deleted (grin).

Sometime, long ago–I read some cocolist mail concerning someone’s
homebrew 2 Meg simm board for their CoCo. I just happen to have 2 Meg’s
worth of 256 X 8 simms laying around, and would like to fabricate an
adapter board for MY CoCo. In order to prepare for this task, I ordered
NEC’s Memory data book from JDR Microdevices out here in CA, and now have
a pinout for these simms, but I DONT have a schematic that I’ll certainly
need in order to assemble the desired memory board. I could make a 512k
board easily, but if some very kind CoCo-ist out there would oblige me, I
will assemble a 1 or 2 Meg board that I would much prefer. At this moment
I have sockets, memory, a suitable protoboard, a little time, much desire,
a lot of patience, and much hope.

Please, someone HELP!! I’d very much appreciate it, and if an SASE and
some valuable consideration within the means of the typical married CoCo-nuts
limited budget will help, I’m game.

Long-winded, happy, one taco short of a combination plate and 2NIBBLES
short of a byte.

NEWS RELEASE
NEWS RELEASE
NEWS RELEASE
Here are the 5 “W’s”
WHO? 1) The Glenside Color Computer Club of Illinois presents
WHAT? 2) The Fourth Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!
WHEN? 3) April 29th & 30th, 1995 (Sat. 10am-6pm; Sun. 10am-4pm)
WHERE? 4) HOLIDAY INN ELGIN (A Holidome Indoor Recreation Center)
345 W. River Road (A city block from I-90 & IL-31S)
Elgin, Illinois (Same great location as last year!)
Overnight room rate: $55.00 (plus 10% tax)
Call 1-708-695-5000 for reservations.
Be sure to ask for the “Glenside” or “CoCoFEST!” rate.
>>>>> YOU MUST REGISTER UNDER COCOFEST TO GET THIS RATE < <<<<
WHY? 5) A. To provide vendor support to the CoCo Community
B. To provide Community support to the CoCo Vendors
C. To provide educational support to new users.
D. TO HAVE AN OUTRAGEOUSLY GOOD TIME!!!!!
And now, the “H” word.
HOW MUCH? 1) Admission: $8.00 at the door, 2-day pass
$5.00 at the door, 1-day pass
Advance ticket sales: $5.00 + SASE for the whole show or
$5.00 + $.50 postage & handling
Children 8 and under FREE
Contact: George Schneeweiss, Treasurer
Glenside Color Computer Club
RR#2 Box 67
Forrest, IL 61741-9629
For further information, general or exhibitor, contact:
Tony Podraza, Fest Chairman Carl Boll, Vice President, GCCCI
708-428-3576, VOICE 312-735-6087, VOICE
708-428-0436, BBS 312-735-3355, BBS
DELPHI-CBJ
Brian Schubring, President, GCCCI
708-529-3539, VOICE
DELPHI-THESCHU

Tony,
I am thinking about building a PIA based parallel port using
the mini expansion bus in my SC2. My question involves the Chip Enable
__
(CE) pin (#13). What state is this pin in when address $FF50 is selected
on the coco bus? I think that it would be low, but I want to make sure.
I plan to map the pia into $FF50-FF53. I am using Mike Guzzi’s PPIA.AR
as a guideline. In that file he decodes the pia into $FF70-$FF73 and
builds a separate pak to plug in his MPI. After studying his guidelines
I started looking at my SC2′s MEB since it is already decoded and should
be relatively easy to use for the project and end up saving a slot on my
MPI to boot!
To clarify, let me restate the question:
When $FF50 is shown on the coco bus, what is the state of pin 13
( chip enable) of the MEB?
Thanks,
Wayne

I tried to implement ‘MultiBoot’ tonight and keep getting error
#207 stack
full. I unloaded my startup files and rebooted, same problem. Anyone here
using Sub-Etha’s ‘Multiboot’ have this problem? If so, how do I solve it?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanx Charlie

In the Color Computer SIG data base, in the GENERAL section, is
a 14K long text file I just wrote that gives the history of the PGP
public RSA encryption software, AND tells you how to use Delphi
(assuming you are at a site in the USA) to obtain a copy of the latest
(and now legal) release of PGP, version 2.6.2. (You do have to
be a member of the Internet SIG, with acess to FTP and Telnet capabilities
of Delphi.)

While PGP is available only for the PC compatible and Macintosh platforms,
there IS available from the same FTP site that has the program
SOURCE CODE for the program, which might allow OS68K types to port
it to their machines.

—marty

Hi all,
After all the discussion of CDI here I figure I better get
around to asking what kind of files are on a CDI disk? I do have a
CD reader hooked to my MM1 and Chris Hawk’s utility to copy from
CDI. Are there sound files (iff) on those CDI disks that I could
bring to my MM1 HD and play? Are there images on those disks that
could be displayed on the MM1? I might go buy a CDI disk just to
explore …..

Bests
—TedJaeger

Thanx Keith, reseating the CPU board did the trick. I’m back in business.
..Charlie…

Eprommer update- Awhile back, Br.Jeremy posted a question about
an ‘Aval PRW1000′ programmer (no docs). The repost is needed
because I’ve figured it out (close, anyway) and this ain’t yer
average programmer.
It’s a very pricey looking (actually, looks like an Apple
)(e with a calculator stuck on it) just add modules job, with one
included that covers 2716 to 27c256 (and the a’s) (in intel,
fuji, and std). Using just the hexpad, you can read two decb
eproms (moving one up 8K), and rewrite the dual version- in about
3 minutes flat if you don’t bend any pins. You can shrink big
endians and flip the bits _in_the_programmer_! But the crux of
the biscuit ‘rip is it rts/cts 3 different formats right out the
serial port without a host program. (With OS9+DevPak to do the s
records…wow! they were right, it is a DevPak! Might have a
product here- OS9 burns, the ROM)

So now I’m _very_ eagerly looking for any more pieces, docs,
etc. PALS and so on ought to be in this boxes range- be thankful
if you’d take a second look at any beige hi-end programmer
modules you run across festing- there is a bounty;-)
-ricku

Rick Ulland CoNect
rickuland@delphi.com 449 South 90th St.
“Operating System Nine”- 268m Milwaukee WI 53214

Mike,
I am in the process of building a parallel port as described in your
ppia.ar file and have run into a slight problem. The 74ls133 is not in
my ttl databook, (it says to look in the supplement, which I don’t have)
and I need pin-outs. Could you send me the pin-outs? My other question
is regarding the db25 connector you talk about in the text file.
I have a pc clone type printer cable laying around and was wondering if
you knew the pin assignments of that particular cable? (It has a male
db25 connector at one end and a 36pin centronics at the other.)
Now for some opinions. After reading your file (very good work, I must
say) I can see that with the correct driver, these 2 parallel ports can
be bi-directional, now I wonder what kind of performance is possible
in bi-derectional mode. ie. Is it fast enough to utilize some of the
pc compatible parallel port devices such as hard drives and tape backups?
Also, I have seen a few external modems that have a parallel port to
hook up to a pc parallel port for VERY high speed comunication. (28.8k and up)
I know that these types are extremely expensive at this time, but how
difficult would it be to utilize (ie. write the proper driver) one of
these modems with the Eliminator style parallel port?
Thanks,
Wayne

Hello all,

On behalf of my friend Jason, I’ve posted in the classifieds here
in the SIG, an AD describing his MM1 that he would like to sell.
The AD should be available in the next 24 hours. Thanks to all
that respond to the AD. All inquiries welcome!

Jeff Yoder, (JAYODER) N2ZDS

Hello everyone,
I have been experiencing these little anomolies that drive me batty.
First of all, does anyone know why I am losing my cursor every time I
leave MAIL? Working without a cursor is like driving a car at night
with the lights out. Another thing are these random characters I
get when I sit idle as in reading a message here. My cusror
moves of its own accordd and leaves random characters behind. In pairs.
Most of the time I get “..” but other times I get characters That I do
not think the CoCo is capable of generating.

I read in a message that someone has a 63c09 processor in thier CoCo.
I have a HD63B09EP. What, if any, is the difference between the “b”
and the “c”. These random characters are driving me crazy! I
have a hard time determining where I am in this text. If I have to back-
space, I have to take into account that I have X number of characters I
did not type. If I backspace I need to backspace -X number of random
characters. Anyway, back to the processor. I would like to find
out anything about the difference, please. Thanks for any input, in
advance. See ya.

LONG LIVE OS-9! ** In whatever form it is in!

-= 01GEN40 =-

Starting Dec 1 ’94 to the end of the year, all remaining DISTO products will
be sold at a 15% discount. Leave email for availability. -Tony.

Just in case someone asks, or wonders where I am–I’m going off the
figurative air for what I hope is a short interval. I am about to (finally!)
start the process of moving stuff to a new hard drive, which entails making
one last backup and moving everything over to the new drive. Once the smoke
clears, I’ll fire up ix again and be back in the–aw, heck, I was about to
use some “information superhighway”/cyberpunk cliche. bubbles emerging from mouth> But anyway, during the interval, I don’t want
to change files or accumulate new ones.

So…back shortly.

Opinions herein are solely those of their respective authors.

Clipper Chip: Big Brother Inside

What does -b do? We ran into a major problem with ix caused by
shell+ stubborn isnsistance that every program have at least 8K
of data space. (ix needs 1 page, or 256bytes). Perhaps klondyke
trips the same bug.

Paul Seniura published a modpatch script (in system? dbase)
that is very clever but doesn’t work as written. The gist of it
is-

l shell
c 130f 1f 01
v

get his file for more info. Also, the diskcat/ix thread here….

-ricku

Rick Ulland CoNect
rickuland@delphi.com 449 South 90th St.
“Operating System Nine”- 268m Milwaukee WI 53214

I couldn’t get it to work with Shell + either. When i boot from a stock
shell, I can run with the -b option. I have no idea if it’s due to shell +
or some other module though.

-Mike Rowen

I need help. I’m having trouble with Klondike. When I try to run it
using the command line “klondike -b” I get an error 187 illegal arugment.
If I use “klondike” the game run perfectly.

I’m using shell +. I have 512k and 314k free after boot. In my startup file
I merge stdpats_4,stdfonts and stdprts,mostly for multivue whenever I use
it.

Thanks for any help in advance!

James

***OS-9 Late Night***
Monday, November 7 at 10:00pm est
Topic:Open Forum

Okay folks, this week I DIDN’T forget the reminder Everyone
is welcome to attend tomorrow. It is another Open Forum so everything
and anything OS-9/Coco/Computer whatever related is welcome. I’m
always up for good Basic09 Chat myself if anyone is interested, or
perhaps shell Programming with ShellPlus. That’s just me, so bring
what interests you

See Ya Tomorra
>Chris<

*Cybermania ’94*, the first annual interactive game awards show, is ending
as I type. Results of interest to OS-9/CD-i users:

Best Comedy: *The Wacky World of Miniature Golf*
Best Sports: *Caesar’s World of Boxing*
Best Actress: Grace Zabriskie, *Voyeur*
Best Actor: Robert Culp, *Voyeur*

(Drat! I should’ve taken notes, because I have a feeling I’ve forgotten
something. They’re going to immediately rerun it, probably for the West
Coast contingent, so I’ll post any additions needed. One thing that I
should add is that there were other CD-i nominees, one that comes to mind
being Mickey Rooney for *Great Day at the Races*.)

I guess *Burn:Cycle* wasn’t up for an award, having come out *very*
recently, BUT there was a very good segment on it, and if there’s ANY
justice on this earth (*pace* Larry Niven and *Ringworld*), it ought to
sweep everything for which it’s nominated next time around. (I just
got my copy, and words fail me.)

Opinions herein are solely those of their respective authors.

Clipper Chip: Big Brother Inside

There is a “BUG” in the play mode of Shanghai. It doesn’t severly interfere
with the game play,, and is over looked by those who have seen it.
This doesn’t include the rare unsolvable puzzle.

The first one with an answer,, will recieve a very nice prize,, yet to be
announced. (choice RS or OS)
Note: I’ve also posted this on th Rs or CoCo SIG. While they (RSDOS’ers)
are more likely to beat out an OS’er. I thought I’d give you
a shot at it.
Terry Simons UPGRADE Editor

I just downloaded a text file and my terminal program reported that the
transfer averaged over 1,000,000 characters/second ! (LiveWire running
under os/2 (ack!) )

Next, i’ll plug the modem into the 220 volt line and see if it’ll do
2 million.

Re: Tim Kientzle’s suggestion:
> Check on kermit.columbia.edu for the latest and greatest C-Kermit
> 5A(190). It’s been compiled for OS9, and should compile pretty painlessly
> on OS9000. Properly configured, it’s comparable in speed to ZModem.

Dave, C-Kermit 5A has already been ported to OS-9000, as has STerm (which
of course has basic XModem). I have copies of both. They may be in the
database here.

As Tim mentioned, modern (C)Kermit provides good throughput.
————————————————————————–
Ken Scales Delphi:KSCALES Internet:kscales@delphi.com CIS:74646,2237

If you can (or know someone who can) digitize FMV from videotape
send mail to DIGIGRADE. For more information check out message #6543 in
the Graphics SIG. PLEASE VOTE on weather you would purchase a voyeur/
night trap type game for your MM/1. The game will use OS9 windows to it’s
advantage.

Dave Pellerito – Digigrade Productions

Chris,
I’m wondering if I have the wrong impression on what the CDplayer
program does. Is it used to just control the playing of the different
tracks, and I need to take the audio from the phone jack or does it
pull the audio into the MM1.
Why I’m asking, is that the program seems to be working ok, when
I plug the headphones in the CD is working, the vcdp program will step
through the different tracks. I even tried the CDIDIR utility and got
a directory off a cdi disk. So it looks like its all working, I guess
I just assumed that the audio would be being sent down the scsi buss
too the MM1 also.

Larry

—– Larry Olson —–

Hey gang – for the last couple days, my local Sprintnet node
has been answering at 14400. If we got that speed way up here
in Saginaw, everyone should have it soon.

John Wainwright

ps – InfoXpress handled it fine, but my Osterm autolog is choking
on it — gotta fix that.

Some interesting tidbits of information.

Our own Tim Kientzle has written an article for Dr. Dobbs Journal explain-
ing the protocol he developed which automatically determines which XModem
or YModem dialect is being used. This is the protocol he incorporated in
the recent ‘xy’ and ‘xyz’ programs he uploaded and a few are beta testing.
Excellent article, Tim. For those who want to read it, it is in the
December, 1994 issue. Look forward to getting Tim’s book. It’s due out
early next year. My order is in.

Microware has a new publication ‘SIGNALS’. Don’t know if this supplements
or replaces ‘PIPELINES’.

Some info from SIGNALS -

> MW has announced that more than 15 manufacturers have started
> building DAVID-based set-top boxes.

Won’t be too long before almost every household in the US will be running
OS-9. This will make OS-9 the most widely used OS in the world. Imagine
what the third party market will be for hardware and software!!

> OS-9 for PowerPC is available for the entire line of PowerPC offerings,
> including the 601, 603 and 604. Also, for Motorola’s MPC 505 and
> IBM’s Power PC Embedded Controller 403GA.

Comment – MW isn’t quite ready to deliver OS-9 for the PowerPC to the world
but it is in Beta test by several of MW’s customers. Current hardware
supported is Motorola’s VME boards. Support for other hardware will follow.

> OS-9 available for Motorola 68060.

> Third Edition of OS-9 Insights by Peter Dibble available. Price is
> $75.00 + s/h. To upgrade from either the first or second edition,
> send in the title page from your book and receive the new edition for
> $45.00.

My order is in. Looking forward to it.

> Coming soon – the OS-9 Primer by Mark A. Heilpern

Mark has been a trainer at MW for the past two years. Should be a great book.

MW is looking for a bevy of software engineers and managers. Positions are
available for entry level to senior level personnel. For those who want to
work in the leading edge of software, contact MW. If I were a few years
younger, I think I would apply. Iowa can’t be too bad a place to live .

And to think it all started with a 6809.

Ed

I am pleased to announce that all remaining UpTime subscriptions will be
filled by “the world of 68′ micros”. This will begin as soon as I get a complete

subscriber list from Jordan (UpTime). For every two issues subscribers were
to get of UpTime, they will receive one issue of 268′m. This is more than fair,
considering UpTime averaged 8 pages while 268′m averages 28. I made the offer
to fill UpTime subscriptions at my printing/shipping cost. In fact, I’ll be
“losing” .10-.15 for every issue. But hopefully the reward will be in more
subscribers in the end. Those who already subscribe to “68′micros” will have
there subscriptions extended by the same number as stated above.

EFFECTIVE 01 JANUARY 94 the subscription rate for “68′micros” will go up to
$25 per year. This is in part to accomodate rising production and shipping
cost. This increase is totally unrelated to the UpTime merger. You will start
to find more CoCo Basic support in the future while I retain the amount of
OS-9/OSK support. I do expect to keep all issues in the future at 30 pages
or more. As long as subscriptions hold over 200, this will be no problem.
Right now, current subscriptions are around 225 with 40 now due. Reminder
cards have beesent. If subscriptions drop below 200, another price increase
of $3 per year will have to be levied. It costs me .25 each to send third
class, .75 first (3rd class requires over 200 pieces). The only thin I make
on each issue is the .50 saved in postage by sending 3rd class. I can’t put
a publication out on a break-even basis! It takes 24 hours to put each issue
together. At 250 issues, that’s only $5.20 per hour. And that doesn’t include
ANY overhead costs (various necessary supplies, on-line time, research, etc.).
So it is really half of that amount ($2.60/hr). Anyone want to do 24 hours
hard work at that rate? In order to keep YOUR costs down, please subscribe
NOW!

Also, from now until the end of the year, I’ll send a FREE sample issue to
all who request it and let me know there primary interests: OS-9, OS-9/68K,
or CoCo Basic. I’ll send a back issue with the regular mailings (first of
December, mid-January). Send $1.00 (to cover postage) ir you prefer having
an issue sent first class immediately.

FARNA Systems
Box 321
Warner Robins, GA 31099

Phone 912-328-7859
Internet dsrtfox@delphi.com

Well, with Halloween rearing it’s ugly head last night, it came
as no suprise that the conference was a tad dead. We had a few people
stop by last night so it wound up being OK, but nothing great. I have
excused everyone who didn’t show, THIS TIME for 2 reasons(but don’t
let this happen again).
One, I forgot to post the Sunday reminder. I apologize about
that. I didn’t make it last week myself, so having that week off threw
me off track. My bad. Two, It was Halloween after all, and since this
is the only time of year that OS-9 diehards will get to go out and egg
Microsoft headquarters, without sticking out, well, I have no choice
but to excuse you.

Ok, on to the GOODer news Frank Swygert of Farna Systems
dropped by last night to officially announce that he has taken over
the subscriptions to Up-Time magazine and merged it in with ‘The World
of 68 Micros’! This could mean great things for the two publications,
as they consolidate and make 1 better magazine

Email ‘Dsrtfox’ for more info, if he hasn’t already posted
details here.

Btw, all conferences for this month will be Open Topic, so don’t
be afraid to stop by for some laid back conversation.

>Chris<

#: 49748 S6/Philips CD-i
Mon 31-Oct-94 17:03:54
Sb: #CD-i Software Support
Fm: Lucy Lediaev (Philips) 72056,1130
To: All

Dear Forum Members,

I am pleased to announce that as of today, Monday, October 31, 1994, a group at
Philips Interactive Media in Los Angeles is responsible for all support of
Philips Media CD-i and CD-ROM software products in the United States. (Those
outside the US should obtain support from the Philips organization in the local
country.) The telephone number for this group is 800 340 7888; this is the
number that will be on software packaging in the US from now on.

This new group is comprised of experienced CD-i software support personnel, a
PIMA product test veteran and some new employees. We are able to answer gneral
consumer questions about CD-i, about specific titles in both CD-i and CD-ROM
formats, about title availability, and we can take orders, and give gameplay
hints. We can also send an information package to prospective developers.

Phone hours for the new software support group are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. M, T, W,
and F; 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Pacific
Time.

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions about US phone support
for Philips CD-i and CD-ROM titles.

We look forward to supporting our CIS forum friends,

Lucy Lediaev
Director, Customer Support
Philips Interactive Media

P.S. CD-I hardware and accessory support is available from Philips Consumer
Electronics at 800 531 0039.

Oops. Hit enter twice by accident.

Anyway, let me see if I understand correctly. Your saying that IFF and
SND digitized sound files basically follow the Mac and Amiga sound file
format (which as I understand it are the only ones that Play plays)??

Can you provide me with OS9 Level II Play command line arguments?

I have several versions of Play distributed in archive as play3, play4,
and play5.

I’d really appreciate any additional help you could provide.

Many Thanx
Dave

To all of those interested in CD-i stuff, apparently, next Sunday at
sometime in the afternoon/evening there’s going to be some kind of games
awards program on cable station WTBS Atlanta. I forget the name of the
program, something like Cyber something I think. It should be on around
8:00 pm Eastern time. In the commercials I’ve seen for this show, there are
quick screen shots of Caesar’s World of Boxing, Voyeur, Escape from Cyber
City, and a version of 7th Guest that looked so clean it had to be the CD-i
version. I believe there’s also prizes which viewers can win, one of which is
a CD-i player.

I’m not quite sure what the whole thing is about, but it looks interesting.

..Eric…

Ken,

If you’d happen to be interested in this, earlier this week the games
Burn: Cycle and Mutant Rampage: a.k.a. Bodyslam came into Incredible
Universe. Unfortunately for me my charge account is with Best Buy, which
apparently may not even stock these titles, so I may have to wait till
Christmas to get them.

I talked to our local CD-i rep, Trevor Coleman. Pretty nice guy, though
not completely accurate with some of his info. He told me some interesting
stuff about CD-i support in the valley. According to him, there is a Sears
store or two which are doing CD-i support some justice. Also, he said that
the best local CD-i support is being provided by a place called Jerry’s
Audio and Video or something like that.

Anyway, if you pick either of these titles up, let me know how you like
them.

..Eric…

Chris,
I don’t know if you remember me, but I was the one that bought your
NEC CD player at the Atlanta fest. The bad news is that I have been
unable to get it to work. I am hopeing that you can shed some light
on what I may be doing wrong.
I currently have 1 hard drive and 1 floptical on the SCSI buss. The
hard drive uses SCSI controller ID $00, and the floptical uses ID $02.
This is on a 8 meg MM/1. I havn’t gone with the MM/1a yet.

The CD drive was set up to use SCSI ID $01, so I thought I was all
set, so on my first attempt to hook it up, I just crimped a 50 pin
connector on the SCSI ribbon cable, powered up, loaded the CD programs,
and tried vcdp &. The program screen would come up but the access lights
on the hard drive and floptical would come on and go into a state where
the computer was locked up. I had seen that the CD drive had the switch
set for internal termination, and thought that that might be the problem
so I switched termination off. With termination OFF, the hard drive and
floptical didn’t lock up, but doing an access of the hard drive would
take about 4 times longer than normal. The player program would come up
but none of the functions would work. The buttons would click up and
down but I didn’t seem to be getting anything from the player. The QUIT
button wouldn’t work, the only way to get out was to shut off the computer.
I thought that I might be having cable problems, so I ordered new
connectors and cable, and when they showed up, I made a new SCSI cable,
but I still had the same problem, the program didn’t appear to be
reading the CD, none of the pushbuttons did anything, and the hard drive
access time was a whole lot longer than normal.
I even disconnected the flopitical drive from the SCSI cable to see
if that might be the problem, but still the same results.

Do you have any ideas on what the problem might be ?

Larry Olson

—– Larry Olson —–

Well, rats…my first publication in a LOOOONG time (maybe since the Nov/Dec
1978 *Creative Computing*), and it has a blatant error.

It merits correction, and thus I do so here: the tree traversal used in the
Pythagoras tree program is, as anyone who’s taken a data structures course
will know, but which I evidently forgot, a *pre*-order traversal.

Error aside, there is *one* thing that’s unusual about that article (in the
(alas) final issue of *UpTime*), and I wonder who’ll notice what it is.

Opinions herein are solely those of their respective authors.

Clipper Chip: Big Brother Inside

Greg,

Long time no talk! It’s good seeing you on the forum. Guess you haven’t
completely forgotten us OS-9 types .

Question re INTERNET.

I’m looking for an method of getting files from other sites besides ftp’ing
them. I ‘heard’ there is a way files can be requested via the BITFTP
server at Princeton University. Supposedly, you send an e-mail message
to them requesting file(s) and they will be transmitted to your work space
just like ftp’ing them does. I’ve noticed that some of the sites are
very slow. Can take almost as long to transfer a file as it does to down-
load them and this is at 3 or 4 in the AM.

BTW, I do pay the extra 3 bucks a month so I can take full advantage of
INTERNET from DELPHI. I’m asking here because I believe many others on
this forum would also like to take advantage of this feature. Any info
on this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ed

How many times have you come into the OS9 SIG and started to type
chd /dd/whatever ? Strangely, lately Iv’e done it alot.

Dave

I see (Item #7) Claude Cote in theh for sale is still there. Months
ago, it was pointed out, Claude cannot be contacted via Delphi.
Is the FOR SALE base “ever” updated???
til then,,, Terry g

I need oto duplicate a PAL chip. I didn’t know they were programmed??
And have no idea how. But do need to duplicate a PAL in my DS69B.
any suggestions???
Terry Simons UPGRADE Editor

Hi All!!

Just a quick note. If anyone is interested; the old VIS machine listed
in the 1995 Radio Shack catalog, is available from Tiger Software. It’s
not in their catalog, but, if you call they will offer you the VIS player
with 30! titles for $99!!! My brother called them for something else and
was told that it was a CD-i player (aanngghhh! WRONG!!!) and called me for
more info. Too bad it isn’t compatible. :-<

Chris

Oh, Yeah! 1 800 666 2562

:-> :-> :-> :-> :-> :-> :-> Chris “HAWKSoft” < -: <-: <-: <-: <-: <-: <-:

Delphi: HAWKSOFT Internet: HAWKSOFT@DELPHI.COM

******************< Uploaded w/ InfoXpress vr. 1.02.00 >******************

Once again I am soliciting help with OS9000 software. Anyone who has
OS9000 and would be interested in porting some communications stuff over
please contact me. Specifically, I’m interested in a Zmodem or Ymodem program
to facilitate the transferring of files between two machines via modem.
The Microware-supplied Kermit is too slow for my needs. I’ll be glad to discuss
reimbursement for such work.

-Dave

Can anyone direct me to a file that will guide me to the COCO area on the
INTERNET. I am a beginner on the net would like some clues before I call
long distance to explore.
Don

Help! My Magnavox 1CM135 monitor fried last week. I’m getting by on a CM-8
loaner (thanks, Boisy!), and I’m liable to have the Magnavox repaired if only
to have a backup monitor, but…

1. The Magnavox really isn’t all that wonderful as far as dot pitch is
concerned.
2. The MM/1 overscan mode screens definitely overlap the edges, so that
all those neat buttons in kved and ost are hard to reach.

..so, I’d really really like to find a monitor that is better in those
regards. I expect I’ll go back, do a “read nonstop subj monitor”, and
check the accumulated wisdom–it’s depressing to see that 15.whatever
KHz scan rate-capable monitors were mentioned as fading out two years
ago–but if anyone has any more recent leads on better monitors, I’d
be interested. (I’m checking out the Amiga mags, since they have the
same scan rate constraints. If anyone else has gone that route, I’d
be interested in hearing your experiences.) Thanks!

Opinions herein are solely those of their respective authors.

Clipper Chip: Big Brother Inside

Zap. Found the bug. Seems that SCF is throwing a SS.Close call in between the
display statements and multi-byte control sequences that are received
separately. Okay perhaps, but CC3IO stores any get/set stat calls in the SAME
spot that it stores char outputs! So what happens?

CC3IO stores the first 1F of the 1F22 call (underline on), then the SS.Close
($2A) gets stuck on top of the 1F, then the 22 comes in…. CC3IO etc gets
confused and thinks we have a 1B call, and grfint tries to do a “1B 22 ….”
overlay window setup!! Oooops.

Solution is to just not store the stat calls, and change a LBRA to go around a
little thing (tech talk- sorry). If I’m too far off here, change the following
in CC3IO when nothing else is going on:

Offset Old New
778 A7 12
779 C8 12
77A 1F 12
79F 4B 4E
9EE A7 12
9EF C8 12
9F0 1F 12
A2D BD C0

and of course reverify CC3IO and save it out or recobbler the disk. This should
fix things. – Kev !

***OS-9 Late Night***
Topic: Open Forum
Monday October 24 at 10:00pm Est

Bring your q’s,comments, and ideas. This is free for any OS-
9/Coco or whatever discussion. I might not be able to make it, because
I have to work Tuesday morning(covering someones vacation hours), and
have to be up rather early. I’ll try and make for the first half hour
or so, but if I can’t make it, it shouldn’t be any big deal. Just
‘talk amongst yourselves’ >

>Chris<

Hi all,

I just purchased a TEAC FD-55GFR 1.2MB 5.25″ floppy drive for my
MM/1. I cannot seem to read CoCo OS-9 formatted disks with the
following dmode parameters:

name=c1
drv=1 stp=3 typ=$24 dns=$01 cyl=40 sid=2 vfy=1 (off) sct=18 t0s=18
sas=8 ilv=3 tfm=0 toffs=0 soffs=1 ssize=256 cntl=$0000 trys=0 lun=0
wpc=0 rwr=0 park=0 lsnoffs=0 totcyls=80 ctrlrid=0 rates=$10
scsiopt=$0000 maxcount=65535

When I attempt to read, I get an error #247. The light comes on and
the drive is apparently trying to read the disk.

I recall hearing discussion that some 5.25″ drives use a different
spin rate to read hi-density while others use a different data rate.
While I’m not trying to read a hi-density disk in this case, I wonder
if this drive will work as a 1.2 meg floppy?

Does anyone have any experience with this drive on the MM/1? I would
appreciate any answers. If I can’t use the drive, I’m taking it back.
–
Boisy G. Pitre__ __ __ Delphi: BOISY
|_ _| \ \/ / CompuServe: 74464,3005
I use… _| |_ > < Internet: boisy@os9er.waukee.ia.us
|_____|NFO/_/\_\PRESS 1.2.0 OS-9 — King of Operating Systems

If any MM/1 owners, and particularly programmers, haven’t downloaded Boisy
Pitre’s program LinkUp yet, please do so immediately. This is *exactly* how
MM/1 programs should have been looking over the last 4 years!

This program has been released as freeware, and yet it puts most other MM/1
programs, including most commercial releases (and, I’m ashamed to admit, the
utilities I’ve written), to shame.

This program has set a new standard. Can we match it?

EXCELLENT work Boisy!

..Eric…

Well,, Boisy,, here I am at 9600 (thanks to you of course).
Now I can leave typo’s & mispelled woids 4 times as fast.

Terry Simons UPGRADE Editor

Is there any way you or your fellow MM/1′ers could come up with a CoCo II/III
player for the MM/1 IFF/SND sound files? I, as well as many CoCo users, fell
left out because we simply cannot afford MM/1′s or any major upgrades in
hardware.
Thanx
Dave

PS. If the answer is yes, it would be nice if there was a RSDos version
as well as OS9.

I picked up a ViVa 14.4k Fax/Modem today from Best Buy for an
unbelievable price: $99.95 new in the box! It was too good of a deal
to pass up; if anyone is interested in it, I’d like to sell it for he
cost + something for shipping.

This game is for the $200 add-on digital video cartridge…RIGHT?

I’m stuck at the arrows in INCA. Anyone passing this point..please
advise in private mail. Thank you.
I’ve tried all the PC GAME SIGS and World of Video etc with no answers.

Frank, your interest is peeking into CD-i but be aware that a game
rental place here is Phoenix is selling a Phillips (single speed) for
$150.00 used. Even my local Sears still has one in the basement that
was their floor demo for a while. Make sure that the Phillips is
a current model befor you buy. The little Magnavox units are all
new and will be double spin speed but I do not know about ports. Mine
has a wired joystick, an external power supply, top loads and has
5v port for who knows what and the video and stereo outlets. The
digital video cartridge can be installed though the top. Some of
the more deluxe Magnavox units could be of the older issue as well.
I have found that here, the best prices on software are from Best Buy.
Whereas the best variety is available at Incredible Universe and it’s
prices are still somewhat less than the mail-order list prices.
Best (not Best Buy) is also marketing the Magnavox unit like mine but
their software prices are at list (strange for a discount store).
Service Merchandise does discount software a little but not much here.
Hope this helps with your LEAP.

Someone brought up the fact that LinkUp doesn’t do CIS B+ Protocol.

Well… as of this morning, it does. I added it in, and it works well
in both receive and transfer modes. With a bit more testing and
a few bug fixes, LinkUp should be due for another release shortly.

Thanks to Mark Griffith, BTW, for generously allowing me to use his
CIS B+ code from STerm.

I just received a new CD-i title (read OS-9 software) called Burn:Cycle.

This game is absolutely amazing. I cannot *believe* the graphics and
animation. And it doesn’t even require the Digital Video Cartridge.

Show this one to your friends. Tell ‘em it’s OS-9 software.

They’ll pass out.