[Coco] Hacking the SuperIDE

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 03 October 2012 17:43:49 Retro Canada did opine:

> I want to make an interrupt routine to allow when pressing F1/F2 to
> move the drive offset. This would allow mutiple disk games like The
> Contras to be run from the superIDE. Maybe some patching in the game
> is need to not disable the keyboard interrupt.
> 
> For coco1/2 games this would work out of the box since they ignore the
> keyboard interrupt.
> 
> But I need to learn more 6809 assembly. I only program Z80 for now :P,
> being a MSX user for so long...

Gahhh!  That Z-80 will teach you very bad habits, they should have a pill 
to make you forget it. ;)
 
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Mark Marlette <mmarlette at frontiernet.net> 
wrote:
> > This is GREAT to see. Someone is in the dirt and playing hard. :)
> > 
> > Another approach would be to create a partition manager, allow it to
> > modify the offset location in groups of 256. This way the app would
> > have access to all drives, not just the current offset drive as Gene
> > indicated.
> > 
> > Keep them coming!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Mark
> > http://www.cloud9tech.com

Cheers, Gene
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