[Coco] assembly programming on a 16K CoCo 2

[doctorx0079]

Okay, so what are the pros and cons of ROM Paks versus floppies? What
hardware do I need to get my PC to make ROM Paks and CoCo floppies? Making
ROM Paks on the PC and running them on the CoCo 2 sounds good, since I'm not
going to mass-produce them anyway. And with the floppy drive I just wanted
to know if there was a way to get it to work with a 16K machine, using
assembly language. Apparently you can't get at it through standard Color
Basic but I thought you could maybe access it with assembly. Of course you
wouldn't have a way to get the software going anyway, unless you could come
up with a short program using POKE's that would load it from the floppy. Is
there a way to do that?

>
> Many would agree, Rainbow IDE and the M.E.S.S. emulator is the
> best new way
> to develop CoCo games because you can go from source code to emulation in
> one click and start testing right away.  You just keep repeating
> this cycle
> anytime you make enough changes to your source code that you want
> to see in
> action.  It would take hours longer to do this on a real CoCo
> using EDTASM
> because you have to assemble to disk, exit EDTASM, load your
> program, test,
> then reboot EDTASM.
>
> What's better?  ROM Pak development!  As soon as you click Go to assemble
> your game/program, it starts running immediately.  This is truly the most
> seamless and convenient form of CoCo development known to man.  If you
> haven't tried it, you're in for a treat.  In fact, you can easily develop
> your programs first as 'ROM Paks' then later change the ORG (Origin) to
> lower memory so that they load from Disk.  You can do this to
> avoid having
> to type LOADM "GAME" at the CoCo prompt each time M.E.S.S. is launched.
>
> Ofcourse, any software that uses hardware that an emulator can't emulate
> should be further tested on a real CoCo.
>
> --
> Roger Taylor
>
>
>
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