[Coco] emulator questions

[LM]

The good news is I finally got the MESS emulator working.  I tried
imgtool, but just couldn't get the files into the archive properly.
However, the retrieve tool some of you mentioned works beautifully.  I
just retrieve the files from the 5 and 1/4 disk and MESS seems to be able
to read them from the dsk file on my hard drive.  The port utility also
looks useful, but seems a bit finicky, because I need to exit before it
writes my files.  Retrieve appears to be working fine in a DOS box in
Windows ME (which is good because I no longer have a dual boot to DOS).  
Anyway, I'm really excited a lot of my old programs are actually still
accessible and working.

I have some public domain and shareware CoCo disks.  Is there an archive
to share these kinds of things anywhere?  I just converted about 7 disks
from The Public Domain Software Copying Co. to disk images using retrieve
and I have the MCTRUG Color Computer Software Library Catalog in another
disk image.  (Will have to check if I still have some more of the MCTRUG
disks around.)  Was wondering how members of the list share/swap pd or
shareware CoCo software.

Roger Taylor wrote:
>It's funny you asked about tokenized BASIC programs because I am adding 
>this now to the Portal-9 IDE.

Do have any reference material as to which bytes represent which functions
in basic?  I started on a short program to convert from the tokenized
basic to straight ASCII and it appears to be working really well.  I just
don't have all the correspondences between byte codes and BASIC
instructions in yet.  Now that MESS is working, I could just compare
listings of some of my games with the basic files viewed through a hex
editor.  Was hoping someone might have a list already created to save some
time though.

>How'd you find this list?  Glad you're trying to keep your CoCo stuff 
>alive.  That's what we're best at.

Ran across it in a search engine.  Glad to find other CoCo
enthusiasts trying to preserve their CoCo programs.

Best wishes.

Laura
http://www.distasis.com/cpp/