#coco 3

not me smiling at my screen🙄🙄 bae cmere lemme kiss u :((

ask game

YES YES it’s like fancy classy but i use it negatively too so 😆

For all the suspicions I’ve had over the years about the promotion of OS-9 never quite managing to say “end users will find value in the many programs available for it,” this issue did offer a program to keep track of “OS-9 files and programs.” So far as the promotion mentioning “advanced programming languages to write your own applications” went, this issue also reviewed a C compiler for the Color Computer’s more limited Disk Extended Color BASIC. One ad proclaimed “The 2nd Annual ‘Last’ CoCoFest” would be held at the Holiday Inn Elgin in Illinois at the start of the next month.

BABY1.RLE, displayed on a Tandy Color Computer 3.

While OS-9′s most basic “windowing” mode wasn’t as graphical as Microsoft’s, there was a graphic user interface named Multi-Vue that ran on top of the Color Computer 3 operating system. This issue focused more on programs that could move your files from Disk Extended Color BASIC discs to OS-9 disks (their formats weren’t compatible), although they weren’t offered as “type-ins.” Lonnie Falk’s editorial mentioned working examples of all three “Color Computer successors” were in the Falsoft office, and that the Delmar System IV featured the month before had started as an “industrial” computer adapted to home (hobbyist) users.

Thinking to check in on the Color Computer 3 emulator VCC a little while ago, I found a new version of it had become available. It promised a somehow intriguing amount of enhancements for a version number change from “2.1.9.1” to “2.1.9.2...”