[Coco] 6502 to 6809 translation

[gene heskett]

On Monday, August 01, 2011 11:21:57 PM Stephen H. Fischer did opine:

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> From: "gene heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
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> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 6502 to 6809 translation
> 
> > On Monday, August 01, 2011 10:17:45 PM Stephen H. Fischer did opine:
> ...
> 
> >> I do not know if my original disks from Edgar M. (Bud) Pass, Ph.D.
> >> are readable.
> > 
> > I may have some originals, and I do mean original, level 1.00.00 defs
> > and all, disks around someplace. I used that as a framework, Bud's
> > code is very well composed, and anyone who took his classes was being
> > taught by the
> > best.
> 
> Those disks are so old that you had better do a full format before
> looking at them!
> 
> If you can find the disks, I will put then next to the DOC's  given
> before.
> 
> > My site has a Sleuth that I updated to level 2 defs, and I believe I
> > later fixed it for 6309 codes too. But I didn't touch the 6502 stuff
> > it can also do. I always considered the original 6502 as on a KIM-1,
> > as being one of the two early cpu's, the z-80 was the other, that
> > were at best dane bramaged.
> 
> Actually AFAIK the 6502 was the next CPU designed by the folks that did
> the 6800.
> 
> I put your sleuth next to it's DOC's given before. Thanks!
> 
Those docs are going to be a bit 'dated' I think.  Unless someone else also 
worked on sleuth too.  I got perms from Bud to do that, FWIW.  But back in 
those days it was a big buck ($99) program, so I never spread it around 
until the last couple of years.

> If you liked sleuth so much, if it were not for your intense MS/INTEL
> dislike, I have a dissembler for x86 that blows any other dissembler
> that you would have liked.
> 
> It actually is an emulator that simulates executing the instructions
> thus determining on it's own what is data and what is code. Very
> good!!! And the only way to do an dissembler right.
> 
> But I purchased the version that does not do 32 bit binaries, I was not
> aware that it did not do them. I got busy and never purchased the better
> version. By that time programs had gotten so complex that only the
> hackers used that dissembler before generating even better dissemblers.
> (Ever wonder how the groups competed with each other delivering cracks
> so fast?).
> 
> SHF
> 
> 
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Cheers, gene
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