🚀 go-pugleaf

     Eric/Baron/Chummer :-)

     Post to list since the other address barfed all over me.

     I've been using the 2meg/6309 combo for about a year now.
Let me split them up. The 2 meg upgrade has been flawless. decb
thinks there is a 512K board there, and OS9 usually shows just
a bit more than a meg free after my herculean attempts to fill
the box totally. No ramdisk failures on either system and even
with a page full of mdir OS9 hangs on. The only limit is cpu
speed- with a meg full the poor 8 bitter is hurting just a tad if
you are working that much RAM (vs lots of static storage like
700K RAMdisks).
     The 6309 on the whole has been flawless as well. Effective
speed under OS9 can be thought of as 3MHz. Technically, it's of
course the same clock, but effective thruput is just about
another 'VitaminE poke'. I have found exactly one program that
will not go on my 6309 patched+boosted system- and I am sure you
will mourn the loss of Home Publisher as much as I do:-).
     Under decb, the nicest thing about the 63 is it does 68
pretty good. (To anyone-did Chris ever fix decb boost?). There
are sorta fixes for actual decb (ie ROM BASIC) programs, but most
'decb' programs are actually 6809 assy, so nothing is gained,
since the assembler did something stupid like assume the stack is
of a known size, and there is no layer of system coding to
upgrade- somebody would have to take the source and recompile it
for each 'decb' program. (Anyone have a good Max10 disasm?)
     CoNect (thats me) sells quite alot- perhaps 95percent of the
Tandy catalog and 15 percent of the rest at one time or another.
All of the packages I've ever seen have at least been given 10
minutes on the 2meg 6309- 1 failure in about 300 titles, and that
includes ROMPaks! Compatable, yes!
                              -ricku