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2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
OS-9
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Home / Programming - OS-9
Welcome to the Programming section of the CoCo Wiki. Here you will find information about programming the 6809 in OS-9.
This section needs help with the Assembler, Pascal and C.
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Basic09
From the Basic09 manual: Basic09 is an enhanced structured BASIC language programming system specially created for the 6809 Advanced Microprocessor. In addition to the standard BASIC language statements and functions, Basic09 includes many of the most useful elements of the Pascal programming language so that programs can be modular, well-structured, and use sophisticated data structures. It also permits full access to almost all of the OS-9 Operating System commands and functions so it can be used as a systems programming language. These features make Basic09 an ideal language for many applications: scientific, business, industrial control, education and more.
Basic09 is unusual in that it is an Interactive Compiler that has the best of both kinds of language system: it gives the fast execution speed typical of compiler languages plus the ease of use and memory space efficiency typical of interpreter languages. Basic09 is truly a complete programming system that includes a powerful text editor, multi-pass compiler, run-time interpreter, high-level interactive debugger, and a system executive. Each of these components was carefully integrated so the user "sees" a friendly, highly interactive programming resource that provides all the tools and helpful "extra" facilities needed for fast, accurate creation and testing of structured programs.