[Coco] CoCo related question? (From scanner to emulator)

[Diego Barizo]

What I do is get the file to notepad (or Edit) and save it as a .BAS file.
Then, using PORT.EXE from JV's emu, move it to a DSK file.
Seems to works better than the paste option in mess.
Diego


Albert Stinger wrote:
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>My questions, but first let. I'll ramble on some. I did a scan from the

>Rainbow magazine and sent it to Note Pad with ORC'd text. I figured

>it would be faster then typing in the whole listing from scratch. (Could

>somebody or anybody please post the Rainbows on disk to a safe

>place on the web. Please!) I went through the listing correcting any

>obvious errors I found. I copied the text to the windows clipboard. I

>then opened mess, and I pasted the clipboard data into it. When I saw

>the listing being pasted into mess, I was ready to fall in love, but mess

>couldn't handle the entire listing and I ended up with only the first part

>of the listing in memory, so not trusting the rest. So much for love. I

>also found that if I saved the listing in ASCII format, I would have

>garbled text and line numbers missing from the listing. I need.

>Depends.

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>The listing ended up pretty good after all the edits. What with going

>back and forth between XP and DOS. Yikes! There is still bugs in

>the listing. With no easy way of finding the errors. I found myself with

>questions. Is there a way that the (Rainbow Check Plus) program be

>used to check against the listing or are there any other ways to test for

>logical type errors in a typed listing?  Is someone or anyone making a

>slightly better edit for the coco3.rom? Please! Full screen editing to go

>in the wasted rom space would be nice.

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>Albert Stinger.

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