[Coco] [Color Computer] MAS/EDT

[Arthur Flexser]

I was a fan of MAS, but didn't much like EDT.  I much preferred to just use
Telewriter-128 as my editor, which gives a nice readable 80-column display on
the CoCo 3 that allows for longer comments attached to the code without
impairing readability by having them spill over onto multiple screen lines.
Pretty much any CoCo-3 word processor would be equally usable.

Art

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, David Bush wrote:

> MAS/EDT is an assembler/editor package that used to be sold by Tom Mix
> Software, and written by Sonburst Software. I have MAS and I regard it
> as the best assembler for 6809 ML assembly, better than the EDTASM
> rompack or disk version, better than EDTASM3. I would really like to
> find a copy of the EDT editor to work with it. EDT had many nice
> features which coordinated well with MAS. For example, MAS allowed for
> local labels. If a block of code is separated by blank lines from the
> rest of the code, you could place a local label there (essentially a
> lowercase letter a-z) and any branch to it would be recognized, even
> if the same label exists outside of that code "island." EDT allowed
> for easy generation of the next local label which has not been used
> yet in the current code island. Also, EDT would keep the line you are
> typing in the middle of the screen, which is easier to look at than
> the bottom. It had all sorts of cool stuff like this.
> 
> Does anyone know where I can get EDT? I did purchase a copy a long
> time ago, but my first CoCo was stolen. I would also like to buy a copy
> of the manual which came with it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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