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

[Albert Stinger]

That's exactly what I did except I used the wingtool from mess.
This tool works good and I like it. I did have to use the JC/JV
emulator to get any dependable work done on the listing though,
which means I have to boot into MS-DOS.

"Diego Barizo" <diegoba at adinet.com.uy> wrote in 
message news:42419670.20406 at adinet.com.uy...
> 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
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> 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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Albert Stinger.
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