#: 5907 S1/General Interest 06-Aug-90 21:25:48 Sb: #5672-#To Meg or Not to Meg ! Fm: DENNIS SKALA 73177,2365 To: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104 (X) I'm in the process of updating and correcting the Microcom ramdisk package (I guess I should mention this is legal - I'm the author) to work properly with the Disto one meg memory upgrade. What's your system configuration? I'll need a beta tester or two to make sure the thing actually works --- I'm still at 512K here. ***** Dennis ***** There is 1 Reply. #: 5963 S1/General Interest 10-Aug-90 01:21:00 Sb: #5907-To Meg or Not to Meg ! Fm: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104 To: DENNIS SKALA 73177,2365 (X) SO there actually is a real person called Dennis Skala. I guess that there is also some truth to the rumour about some new version of os9 as well !!!! Just kidding ! My system doesn't have the 1 meg upgrade in it. I installed it in a friends system, since he is not too good with a slobbering iron. But just for the record, I have 512k. I would be happy to ask my friend to be a beta tester if you are willing to send him /me the driver and information needed. But it will have eto wait for a while as He is going on a business trip this Ssaturday for 1 week, and I will be leaving for vacation for 2 weeks, a week from this Friday (8-10). I hope I can find an os9 system back there to goof around on. 2 weeks without LII can be considered cruel and unusual punishment ! Please leave me a message as to how/when you woul like to do this. Thanx for the info. TC #: 5908 S10/Tandy CoCo 06-Aug-90 21:44:16 Sb: Planet Engine 1.1 Fm: James Jones 76257,562 To: All Just got my copy of Planet Engine 1.1, and it's one of the more fun things I've found in a long time. It essentially gives you your own personal planetarium and orrery. An astronomer would find it quite useful--I think it's a heck of a lot of fun. Well worth the $$$. (I should nudge him to consider a version for the MM/1.) The above is, of course, solely my personal opinion. #: 5909 S10/Tandy CoCo 06-Aug-90 22:38:58 Sb: #Transferring Apple FIles Fm: Ladd Temple 73647,2154 To: all I seem to recall that there was once a program to enable reading data from Apple disks under OS-9 and copying the files to an OS-9 disk. Some what like pc-dos does for ms-dos disks. If my memory is correct, is the file available in this forum? Does such a program truly exist? Help - I have 92 data files on apple disks for a research project I need to have transferred Thanx for any assistance, guidance you can offer. Randy Temple There is 1 Reply. #: 5915 S10/Tandy CoCo 07-Aug-90 09:46:57 Sb: #5909-#Transferring Apple FIles Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 To: Ladd Temple 73647,2154 (X) Ladd - The only Apple/OS9 interface I was aware of was a card called the MILL, and a version of OS9 ported to it that was written by Steve Childress (my ex boss). Other than that, I don't know of any disk read/write tools for the apple.. Sorry! Pete There is 1 Reply. #: 5926 S10/Tandy CoCo 07-Aug-90 22:14:05 Sb: #5915-#Transferring Apple FIles Fm: Ladd Temple 73647,2154 To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X) Thanx for your help Pete. I guess my memory isn't as good as I thought it was. I'll have to figure out some other way to get my data over. <<>> There is 1 Reply. #: 5930 S10/Tandy CoCo 07-Aug-90 23:43:36 Sb: #5926-Transferring Apple FIles Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 To: Ladd Temple 73647,2154 Ladd - Best/most universal way is to get a terminal emulator up on both machines, and rig a null modem type RS-232 cable. I still do that here with OS9 boxes and PC's. Pete #: 5910 S6/Applications 06-Aug-90 22:59:56 Sb: #what is? Fm: Everett Chimbidis 76370,1366 To: 72746,3451 (X) Hew what is vt220? There is 1 Reply. #: 5911 S6/Applications 07-Aug-90 02:11:17 Sb: #5910-what is? Fm: James Jones 76257,562 To: Everett Chimbidis 76370,1366 (X) It's a terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation--think of it as "son of VT-100." #: 5912 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 07-Aug-90 07:40:12 Sb: #5820-#TOP - Munich Release 2.0 Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76 To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X) Ok. Just wondering if it is necessary to dl 1 and 2 again. Guess I still don't know .... Carl There is 1 Reply. #: 5914 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 07-Aug-90 07:59:35 Sb: #5912-#TOP - Munich Release 2.0 Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 (X) Carl, If you've not had any problems with your copy, it should be unecessary to re-download. Message 5375 was still on the board today when I checked. It explains what the problem was... as I thought, difficulties expanding to a directory. Steve There is 1 Reply. #: 5949 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 09-Aug-90 09:09:32 Sb: #5914-TOP - Munich Release 2.0 Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76 To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X) Ok, thanks. Problem is that I have been too busy to keep up with all the forum traffic, so I missed 5375. And I don't know if they burst right or not. Will have to look again. - Carl #: 5913 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 07-Aug-90 07:42:43 Sb: #5867-#TOP - Munich Release 2.0 Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76 To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X) All the other's decompress and detar ok. I use stuff off usenet for compress and tar. Tar reports that top12.tz has a bad header and a hex dump seems to confirm that - there is garbage where there should be nulls and so on. Carl There is 1 Reply. #: 5966 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 10-Aug-90 05:00:25 Sb: #5913-TOP - Munich Release 2.0 Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 Carl - Will re-upload top12.tz. Thanks for the feedback. Ed #: 5916 S10/Tandy CoCo 07-Aug-90 14:51:18 Sb: #Basic09 Windows Fm: Floyd Resler 72500,2572 To: All I am having a problem with BASIC09. I am trying to kill the current window and recreate a 16 color graphics screen with a window occupying the lower half and two other windows in the corners (upper left and upper right). He is my code for occomplishing this: DIM uleft,uright:byte RUN gfx2("dwend") RUN gfx2(1,"dwset",8,0,12,40,12,0,2,2) RUN gfx2(1,"select") OPEN #uleft,"/w" OPEN #uright,"/w" RUN gfx2(uleft,"dwset",0,0,0,20,12,2,0,0) RUN gfx2(uright,"dwset",0,20,0,20,12,2,0,0) Every time I run this I get a parameter error in the RUN gfx2(uleft,"dwset",0, 0,0,20,12,2,0,0) line. What am I doing wrong? There is 1 Reply. #: 5917 S10/Tandy CoCo 07-Aug-90 16:30:37 Sb: #5916-#Basic09 Windows Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 To: Floyd Resler 72500,2572 (X) Try doing a: RUN gfx2(1,"dwprotsw","off") after the first DWSet call. Zack There is 1 Reply. #: 5919 S10/Tandy CoCo 07-Aug-90 18:47:36 Sb: #5917-Basic09 Windows Fm: Floyd Resler 72500,2572 To: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 (X) Thanks! I'll give it a shot. #: 5920 S9/Utilities 07-Aug-90 20:03:06 Sb: #go? Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 To: Pete Lyall Pete, I'm trying to find a copy of your GO utility. Is it here on CIS? Thanks, Zack There is 1 Reply. #: 5928 S9/Utilities 07-Aug-90 23:37:23 Sb: #5920-go? Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 To: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 (X) Zack - I modified it, but it wasn't mine... I believe it came from the UGLIB, which still has a number of really neat tools that most folks haven't checked out. I *think* Bill Dickhaus might have also whacked on it, so check with him as well - or possibly Mark. In any case, Mike Ward can extract it from the UGLIB archives and upload it for you, if you need it. Pete #: 5921 S1/General Interest 07-Aug-90 20:05:10 Sb: #I'm a new member Fm: TOSHIAKI MATSUO 74060,2030 To: SYSOP and ALL (X) Dear ALL OS9 forum members; Myname is Toshiaki Matsuo forty-two year old,family are wife son and daughter my work electric component sales company name SANSO ltd , a location is yokohama city in japan TEL:045-864-7446 FAX:045-861-2399 I can little speak english now study english language I look forward to hearing from you soon ** Good-bye see you again ** ID:PAG02030 1990,AUGUST,eights AM 10:00 There are 2 Replies. #: 5925 S1/General Interest 07-Aug-90 21:45:51 Sb: #5921-I'm a new member Fm: James Jones 76257,562 To: TOSHIAKI MATSUO 74060,2030 (X) Hello, Toshiaki-san! Douzou yorosiku onegai simasu! (I'm still not used to kunrei-siki.) It's good to hear from you. Do you use OS-9? I've only been in Japan once, to attend a wedding, for only four days, but I have seen OS-9 for the Sharp X68000 in stores in Akihabara. Welcome to the OS-9 SIG; the people here are friendly and willing to help. I speak very little Japanese, but I study it, and listen to lessons on NHK. #: 5927 S1/General Interest 07-Aug-90 22:16:51 Sb: #5921-I'm a new member Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 To: TOSHIAKI MATSUO 74060,2030 (X) Welcome to the Forum! Just speak up if you have any questions/problems/anything you want to talk about! Zack #: 5922 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 07-Aug-90 20:16:15 Sb: #STERM13 Fm: Bud Hamblen 72466,256 To: Simmule Turner 70651,67 (X) STERM13 in DL 12 appears to be cooked. It will crash OS-9/68000 v 2.3 on a PT68K-2. Any attempt to use an escape option that requires an input string from the console (such as esc-S or esc-X) will crash the system, with plenty of garbage appearing on the screen. OS-9 appears to be attempting to execute the contents of the console input buffer. Other programs are better behaved, so I'm not sure if the crash is caused by a bug in STERM13 or the PT drivers. The esc Q option, which requires only a single character input, doesn't cause any problem. There are 2 Replies. #: 5924 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 07-Aug-90 20:46:32 Sb: #5922-#STERM13 Fm: SIMMULE TURNER 70651,67 To: Bud Hamblen 72466,256 (X) I'll look at the problem, and get back to you. If I haven't responded within a week send another message. simmy There is 1 Reply. #: 5938 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 08-Aug-90 21:19:22 Sb: #5924-STERM13 Fm: Bud Hamblen 72466,256 To: SIMMULE TURNER 70651,67 It might be the monokbd driver that is cooked. STERM 1.3 works fine with the sc68681 driver running an H19 terminal. I'll check with Fred Brown at PT about the monokbd driver. Thanks for the reply! Bud #: 5932 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 08-Aug-90 07:51:07 Sb: #5922-#STERM13 Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 To: Bud Hamblen 72466,256 (X) Bud, Ed Gresick is using Sterm on his PT68K. I do recall him mentioning driver difficulties. Perhaps he can shed some light. Steve There is 1 Reply. #: 5939 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 08-Aug-90 21:20:39 Sb: #5932-STERM13 Fm: Bud Hamblen 72466,256 To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X) Please see message #5938. I'm gonna talk to Fred Brown about this. Thanks! Bud #: 5923 S10/Tandy CoCo 07-Aug-90 20:22:02 Sb: help Fm: Gilles Conte 73357,1103 To: sysop (X) Hello Mr. Sysop I will like to know what file I should use to copy a program witch is on a dos disk to a os9 disk ? The program in question is a file that I download from the midi forum and it's a .ARC file so question number two. Does the AR or Pak program will unarc this file once in os9.??? thank you!!!! #: 5931 S1/General Interest 08-Aug-90 03:18:56 Sb: BIOS Fm: David Jones 76256,1223 To: 76703,4227 Kevin, I was wondering if you could me how to disable the BIOS rom in a WD1002-WX1 Hard drive controler? I am using the B&B interface and two miniscrib drives. The reson I ask is because I want to use a powered Y-Cable I bought the system used from COCO PRO, it came with the older user's manual (version 2.0) and the new software drivers for os9. I have everything else under control! Anyway if you could helpit would mean a great deal. I would like to get rid of the MPI because everything else is in an IBM Case.. Thanks, #: 5933 S4/MIDI and Music 08-Aug-90 11:35:07 Sb: #help Fm: Gilles Conte 73357,1103 To: [F] All hello, I have a d-10 roland keyboard, and i will like to know if there a program in os9 that will let me build a librairy of sound with my different bank I got. Also is there any sequencer recorder in os9 ? i think its not possible is it right?? thanks There is 1 Reply. #: 5934 S4/MIDI and Music 08-Aug-90 15:05:43 Sb: #5933-#help Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 To: Gilles Conte 73357,1103 (X) Gilles - I also have a Roland D10 (among other synths, samplers, and rack toys). There were some MIDI tools written in OS9/C, but most were for the Casio CZ-101/1000 family. Almost all the other stuff is written for the RSDOS environment. Biggest reason is that MIDI requires a 31250 baud port, and a computer and buffering scheme that is capable of keeping up with it (at least in bursts). Because of interrupt latency, and time slicing, OS9/6809 really cannot do the job unless a) You have a smart interface card that does processing and buffering or b) You cheat out OS9, and lock your process into the saddle. There are lots of programs for the IBM, Atari, and MAC that are wonderful for use with the D10. If you were motivated, writing one under OS9 might not be too weird... as I said, Richard Johnson wrote a Casio Ed/Lib using technique b) above. Good luck. Pete There is 1 Reply. #: 5935 S4/MIDI and Music 08-Aug-90 15:50:51 Sb: #5934-help Fm: Gilles Conte 73357,1103 To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X) Well, thanks anyway for the answer. But I dont think that Im good enough in OS9 for doing that sort of program myself. But I was thinking that I can use a program for the Mt32 like mt32 Panel to do the job what do you think about it?? Thanks Pete for your help!!! Gildo #: 5936 S10/Tandy CoCo 08-Aug-90 17:32:41 Sb: #Spoker.PAK Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117 To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 (X) Joseph, I downloaded your Spoker.PAK and then discovered I didn't have Tim Koonce's View utility. I have looked in the libraries and can't find it. Where can I find Tim's view? Thanks. Ernie There is 1 Reply. #: 5945 S10/Tandy CoCo 08-Aug-90 23:31:39 Sb: #5936-#Spoker.PAK Fm: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 To: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117 (X) I cannot find it either, it may not be here. I cannot find my copy (in archive format), I must have deleted it. Can anyone here upload view40.ar? Can anyone upload tetris.ar? thanks . . . There is 1 Reply. #: 5954 S10/Tandy CoCo 09-Aug-90 19:25:53 Sb: #5945-Spoker.PAK Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117 To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 (X) I know I couldn't find it. I thought I already had it but the view in my CMDS directory is Jim Peasley's file viewer. Thanks. Ernie. #: 5940 S1/General Interest 08-Aug-90 21:21:11 Sb: disk frags Fm: DICK SHARP 75266,2621 To: 76070,41 (X) Mark, Thanks for the info. My information about OS9 disk fragmentation comes from mainly a review in Rainbow about Chris Burkes "FILE SYSTEM REPACK " and the Burke and Burke advertisments. The implications is that all you have to do is "think hard disk" and things get so bad that the system almost grinds to a halt . I had the feeling that I would have to "repack" my disks constantly to be efficient . Thanks again,I'll sleep better tonight. I am new to the OS9 opperating system and need help from time to time. Best Dick #: 5941 S14/misc/info/Soapbox 08-Aug-90 21:47:17 Sb: #hard drive info Fm: BRETT 72057,3720 To: all Greeting- I have a large 5.25 inch toshiba drive. it looks like it says it is a model mkm0353 e OZO1. I think it is an 80 meg unit. Anyone got any idea about heads cylinders etc for this thing. It has an st506 interface. I am planning on using this via an adaptec scsi adapter on my MM1 when it finaly arrives. Help! I would like to format and test on the coco now. -Brett There is 1 Reply. #: 5944 S14/misc/info/Soapbox 08-Aug-90 23:17:52 Sb: #5941-#hard drive info Fm: Randy Wilson 71561,756 To: BRETT 72057,3720 (X) Brett, Here's what I got on Toshiba 506 drives: MODEL ST-506 MFM CAP CYC H RWC WPC ENC RATE ACCESS SPT COMMENTS MK53FA 5.25 FH 43 830 5 831 831 M 5 30 MS 17 MK 54FA 5.25 FH 60 830 7 831 831 M 5 30 MS 17 MK 56FA 5.25 FH 86 830 10 831 831 M 5 30 MS 17 ST-506 RLL MK53FB 5.25 FH 64 830 5 831 831 R 7.5 23 MS 26 MK 54FB 5.25 FH 90 830 7 831 831 R 7.5 25 MS 26 MK 56FB 5.25 FH 130 830 10 831 831 R 7.5 25 MS 26 As you can see, no exact match, but 830 cyls looks like a good bet. :> Randy There is 1 Reply. #: 5957 S14/misc/info/Soapbox 09-Aug-90 22:05:48 Sb: #5944-#hard drive info Fm: BRETT 72057,3720 To: Randy Wilson 71561,756 Greeting- Thanks for the info. I could only find a .arc file in the IBM forum. the description said it may have had the info, but I do not have msdos and can not dearc. Unless someone here knows of a program to dearc msdos arc files under os9. If anyone has more specific info I am still looking. If I do not get something better I will run with this. -Brett There is 1 Reply. #: 5960 S14/misc/info/Soapbox 10-Aug-90 00:12:02 Sb: #5957-#hard drive info Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 To: BRETT 72057,3720 (X) Brett - Hmmm.. there should be a DEARC in DL9. Pete There is 1 Reply. #: 5974 S14/misc/info/Soapbox 10-Aug-90 22:39:37 Sb: #5960-#hard drive info Fm: BRETT 72057,3720 To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 Greeting- Thanks will look for dearc in dl9. I was wondering where I might find the source to uptime? Seems tha author is some guy that used to have a gimix in calif. For some reason when I got it I only snarfed object. Big mistake when you want to change something latter. -Brett There is 1 Reply. #: 5979 S14/misc/info/Soapbox 11-Aug-90 08:38:28 Sb: #5974-hard drive info Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 To: BRETT 72057,3720 Brett, Are you still on Mark's system? I should have a copy of the source here. I could UUCP it over if you'd like. Steve #: 5943 S6/Applications 08-Aug-90 22:25:20 Sb: Uemacs editor for 6809 Fm: BRETT 72057,3720 To: all Greeting- Get ready for OSK now. I just sent up to dl6 ue.ar It is a termcap driven version of Micro emacs for os9 6809. has multiple windows even over serial lines. I do not have the source, but if you send me email to internet:marob.masa.com!davidge!wa3yre!wynkoop I will tell you who to pester to get the source. 'Course then you must promise to send it to me. -Brett #: 5948 S3/Languages 09-Aug-90 06:19:51 Sb: #Password functions Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41 To: Carl Kreider, 71076,76 (X) Carl, There seems to be a problem with the password functions. In the example below, the second call to get the name returns NULL in all cases. If you swap the functions, then same thing happens, i.e., the second call always returns a NULL even if the name or uid exists. Apparently something is not getting reset in endpwent() ??? Any ideas? if (getpwuid(atoi(pw[ID]))) { fprintf (stderr, "\nUID %s is already used\n", pw[ID]); endpwent(); exit(0); } endpwent(); /* close password in case getpwuid fails */ if (getpwnam(pw[NAME])) { fprintf (stderr, "\nUser %s already exists\n", pw[NAME]); endpwent(); exit(0); } endpwent(); /* close password in case getpwnam fails */ Mark There is 1 Reply. #: 5950 S3/Languages 09-Aug-90 09:10:12 Sb: #5948-Password functions Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76 To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X) I will look at this off line and get back. - Carl #: 5953 S10/Tandy CoCo 09-Aug-90 18:24:15 Sb: Windint Fm: PHIL SCHERER 71211,2545 To: [F] Kev 76703,4227 Hi Kev--I've been trying to get the code in Rainbow July to run and I cant. The problem is in the window section line 7000 onward. When it opens the new window I cant bounce back to the old one until the new one is gone. When the called procedure ends, the new window wont go away unless I bounce a little with the clear button. Then the original window comes back. Dale Puckett said he thought it was my windint and that I should check with you. If you haave any thoughts on it I would appreciate your input. Thanks. #: 5956 S10/Tandy CoCo 09-Aug-90 19:37:25 Sb: #SPoker Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 To: Joseph Cheek I d'loaded and have played you SPoker program. It runs fine except that the stitle.vef and opps.vef files do not load correctly. When I try to view them with the view utility, nothing comes up on the screen. When starting the program, I have to hit break in order to get the thing started. Any ideas? Hugo There is 1 Reply. #: 5958 S10/Tandy CoCo 09-Aug-90 23:26:32 Sb: #5956-#SPoker Fm: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 To: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 (X) Opps.vef and STitle.vef show up black because all the palettes in the pivture are black. SPoker sets the palette up so that you can see them when it is run. As for having to press BREAK, I do not know. Can you give me a little more information? What happens, when do you hit break, what happens after youo hit break, etc. Your problem seems to be unique so far. Please tell me a little more so I can best determine how to solve your problem. There are 3 Replies. #: 5971 S10/Tandy CoCo 10-Aug-90 15:42:04 Sb: #5958-SPoker Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 That was pretty tricky, the way you load in a picture from a VEF file and then POOF! it's there! Zack #: 5978 S10/Tandy CoCo 11-Aug-90 07:33:45 Sb: #5958-SPoker Fm: Richard Taylor 73137,3324 To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 Does anyone know where I can find the view utility for Spoker. I would like to get it up and running but have had know success in finding the utility needed. Thanks.. #: 5981 S10/Tandy CoCo 11-Aug-90 08:51:09 Sb: #5958-SPoker Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 Apparently, it never does reset the palettes. I have to hit break a couple of times. Then the first screen I get is the one which asks you which opponent you want to play against. Hugo #: 5959 S6/Applications 09-Aug-90 23:31:18 Sb: #ue.ar Fm: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 To: all Please help, I downloaded ue.ar (lib 6?) and cannot get the program to run. I put termcap in /dd/sys and put ue in /dd/cmds with e/pe attributes, but when I type ue it gives me 'unknown tty line' or something similar. I've tried ue -e and ue -t=c3 but it will not work. The termcap entry mentiones something about a cc3io patch for two-byte screen codes, what is this? Is this my problem? It doesn't seem like it would be. Please help. There is 1 Reply. #: 5961 S6/Applications 10-Aug-90 00:14:24 Sb: #5959-#ue.ar Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 (X) Joseph - You should also have a file /dd/sys/ttytypes (or ttytype), and it should have the name of the terminal type for the device you're on, i.e.: /term coco /w1 coco /w2 coco etc.... Pete There is 1 Reply. #: 5968 S6/Applications 10-Aug-90 12:46:01 Sb: #5961-ue.ar Fm: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X) Thanks for the info, I will try creating a sys/ttytypes and see what happens. #: 5962 S10/Tandy CoCo 10-Aug-90 01:19:27 Sb: Privledges in BASIC09 Fm: steve Crump 71550,3115 To: All Everyone, I have been working on a sound playing module for BASIC09 that will play .pla (macsound) files. I disassembled the newest PLAY command and discovered that its author uses 4 system mode calls (AllRam, MapBlk, ClrBlk, and DelRam) to play up to 2 meg for sound. I have tried this techque from BASIC09 using SYSCALL but it won't work I get an "ILLEGAL MODE" error. I assume OS9 is telling me I can't use those calls from a user program... but if not why can PLAY also a user program get away with it. I have disassembled SYSCALL and it makes no checks so the error must be coming from OS9 (right?). Is there anyway around this problem and if not how do I go about "un-protecting" the system mode calls as is mentioned in the manual I know someone out there must know. Any help would be great. Steve Crump [71550,3115] #: 5964 S10/Tandy CoCo 10-Aug-90 01:22:56 Sb: #RS Catalog for 1991 Fm: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104 To: ALL I thought you all would like to know that I just saw the coco 3 in the new 1991 Radio Shack Catalog along with some games/programs. Must have been a misprint ! TC There is 1 Reply. #: 5972 S10/Tandy CoCo 10-Aug-90 15:43:40 Sb: #5964-RS Catalog for 1991 Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 To: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104 WOW! It's still in the catalog! Will wonders never cease! #: 5965 S1/General Interest 10-Aug-90 01:39:17 Sb: Sound Master Fm: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104 To: Jim McDowell Jim I finally got sound master to work after stripping down my system to the point where I was almost at RSDOS again. Just kidding ! But I did have to remove unused window descriptors and modify my startup file so MV wouldn't start. When I finally got done I had 432K free, and soundmaster finally worked. It was impressive to see such a graphical representation. But I couldn't figure out a few things. When I turned on the oscillators, I could here a ticking, like a metronome in the background, as well as the tone that was being generated. Your doc file didn't say anything about that so I was kind of puzzled. Also I was just playing around with the controls, and the SSpak started talking to me. I'm not kidding ! It mumbled a few letters / sounds, but it was speech. Your doc file did not say anything about this either, and I have not been able to get it to do it again. I think the user interface needs some work, like mouse control instead of arrow keys, and it neds to be able to run while multi vue is up ! I kept getting error 207 even without multi vue in memory (gshell) and only TERM running. Also you mentioned the chance of doing it in C instead of Basic 09. Got my vote here. For the pre-canned sounds that you included, it seemed that even when they were playing the oscillators were all set at 0, so where were the sound being generated ??? It was fun playing with it, and will look forward to talking to you about this. THANX. TC #: 5967 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 10-Aug-90 10:26:54 Sb: #We're in Beta! Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332 To: all Hey all (especially Kevin, Mark G, Carl, etc), About 2 years ago I got feedback on this forum for a multiplexing protocol convertor we were putting together. It is "soaking" with what we believe are the last bug fixes presently in a test lab and should go to Beta early next week. After 7 weeks in Beta, it will go into the 4 largest Digital Central Offices in the world to allow various Support Systems enhanced access to the switches and monitoring equipment located therein. After that, it will be gradually released to other Digital Central Offices. FWIW, here's what we ended up with: 1 Motorola MVME 147 (68030, 8 mb, 150mb disk) running os9, a board-to-board routing application, X.25 network access applications, and Support System interfaces. 1-18 Motorola MVME 333-2 (68010, 512kb ram, 64kb rom) running os9, and level 2 and 3 of any of several protocols, or a user-interface. These have 6 ports available for async protocols and 2 ports for sync. We have our own block-serial file managers (bfm and pfm) that handle (along with block-serial drivers) data transfers between the 147 and the 333's and read and write access to the 333's ports. The 333's are just devices to the 147 (/slot3, /slot4, etc) and vice-versa (/host). We get about 400 512-byte packets/second composite backplane data transfer with our application fully loaded and running. Bill West, Inc (comprised of Bill West) wrote the backplane driver and file manager with help from developers on our team. GCOM, Inc licensed the X.25 level 2 and 3 drivers for network access and access to equipment that has X.25 interfaces directly to us. Thanks for the input at the time! Mark There is 1 Reply. #: 5973 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 10-Aug-90 18:31:36 Sb: #5967-We're in Beta! Fm: James Jones 76257,562 To: Mark Wuest 74030,332 Excellent! Have you considered writing about the system? I bet that MOTD, Pipelines, or any of several technical magazines would be interested. #: 5969 S1/General Interest 10-Aug-90 14:08:13 Sb: CoCo 3 Acctng. Progs Fm: Gerry herring 71477,667 To: all I need some help. I need some accounting-type software so I can run my what I need is like A/R, A/P, G/L. Inventory Mgmt., + a spreadsheet. would appreciate all suggestions.no t worried if D/L ob CIS, a BBS, or purchased. just need some ideas! if on a BBS, leave me baud/parity and full # BTW i have a Novation Professional 2400 Baud modem. #: 5970 S1/General Interest 10-Aug-90 14:11:15 Sb: addt'l info for acctng Fm: Gerry herring 71477,667 To: all and [D [D #: 5975 S7/Telecommunications 10-Aug-90 23:32:19 Sb: MUYX BOX Fm: Greg Morse 72746,3451 To: 74030,332 Mark - I work for a Telco. Maybe we need your system. How do I get ordering info and what does it do? Greg Morse #: 5976 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 11-Aug-90 05:32:29 Sb: #TOP - Munich Release 2.0 Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 To: sysop (X) Sysop: I have re-uploaded top12.t. Please delete the old file top12.tz. Ed There is 1 Reply. #: 5982 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 11-Aug-90 09:20:11 Sb: #5976-TOP - Munich Release 2.0 Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 Ed, I've merged in the correction as we type. Thanks for the re-upload! Steve #: 5977 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 11-Aug-90 05:34:45 Sb: top12 Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 To: Carl Kreider Carl: I've re-uploaded top12. I did not compress after 'tar'ing the files. I think the problem may have been caused by the fact that the individual files are already compressed by TOP. Thanks for pointing out the problem. Ed #: 5983 S10/Tandy CoCo 11-Aug-90 09:54:29 Sb: Graphics Viewer Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 To: ALL I just uploaded Tim Kientzle's (AKA Tim Koonce) graphics viewer program, VIEW (Version 4.0, the latest) to DL10. It is what everybody needs to run the new Poker program. Supports a multitude of formats, and saves screens to a file also. I Filename is view40.ar. Will be available as soon as the sysop processe4es [Dit. Zack ex Press !>