[Coco] What happened to the list?

[Robert Gault]

Frank Pittel wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:06:45PM -0400, Robert Gault wrote:
>> Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>>> A challenge!
>>>
>>> Robert Gault is the Disk EDTASM king and sells an excellent patch.  I don't use it, but I have in the past, and it's definitely top choice for doing assembly work directly on a CoCo in the BASIC environment.
>>> --
>>> Boisy G. Pitre
>>
>> Thanks for the plug!
>>
>> If anyone is interested, you can review the specs for EDTASM6309 at
>> http://aaronwolfe.com/robert.gault/Coco/CoCo_main.htm
>> Just go to the Software I Sell link and see what Disk EDTASM can be
>> made to do. You will need to own the original Tandy package as my
>> patch is used to convert it. That avoids any copyright problems.
>
> I've been trying to talk myself into getting the patches you sell for a while
> now. I'm sure I will in the next month or so as time permits. Currently I'm
> working on to many things at once and am getting to little done!!!!
>
> Do your patches ease any of the problems I mentioned with edtasm? Things like being able
> to actually read, scroll back through, etc the assembler output? Like I said in
> my original email I don't understand now how I was ever able to work with edtasm
> in the past. It's particularly fussy about syntax, spacing, etc and find errors as they
> scroll past is an excercise in futility.
>
> Frank
>

Frank,

For better or worse, EDTASM6309 is still a line edit format. However, it will 
run in any screen size 32 Coco1&2 and 40 or 80 Coco3. That makes using the 
program much easier.
The arrow keys permit moving through the source code line by line in any 
direction. Pa:b or P#:* permits viewing blocks of code or the entire source from 
low to high line numbers. SHIFT/ALT will pause the listing.
If you want to see the binary output as it is compiled, EDTASM will do that but 
only from low to high addresses.
Finding errors is simple even with the stock version. You just enter
A/NO/WE   which means assemble, don't generate an output file, and pause on 
errors. Any key will restart the assembly which will stop at the next error.

Read the description of EDTASM6309 for all the enhancements over the stock 
version. You may find many of your complaints have been addressed.

You might consider this cheating :) but if you use EDTASM6309 with VCC or MESS, 
you can easily extract the source code from the disk image for full screen 
editing with the PC program of you choice.
EDTASM6309 makes this easy, because you can save or load source code files 
without line numbers. The line number get regenerated when loaded into the program.

Robert