[Coco] 6809 compilers

[tim at franklinlabs.com]

Has anyone done this....

I took the Color Basic Unraveled Series (Color Basic so far) and text grabbed
the source code to a text (.asm) file. I brought it into the Dunfield assembler
and after some cleanup and error correction I no have a fully sourced CoCo O.S.
ready for modification.

Why did I do this? Why does anyone climb a mountain? Because it's there! LOL

Anyway, I haven't ran it on a CoCo yet but I see no reason to think it shouldn't
run.

I plan on doing the ECB and DECB also. If anyone wants a copy, let me know.

-Tim



On August 7, 2014 at 9:58 PM Greg Law <glaw at live.com> wrote:
> Joel Ewy wrote:
>
> > Actually, it looks like the LRtech Superboard was a SCSI adapter for the
> > CoCo (3) from a little later on in the '80s, so it might have been code
> > for the rma assembler instead. I'm not sure I could tell the difference
> > at a glance. May have been developed on a CoCo 3 in OS-9 Level II. But
> > it is definitely OS-9 device driver and device descriptor code.
>
> Assembler sources for the asm assembler have a mod statement toward the top
> and an emod statement near the end whereas sources for the RMA assembler
> have psect/csect/vsect statements. Sources are system modules (kernel,
> managers, device drivers, and device descriptors) all use the asm assembler
> because (if I'm not mistaken) the RMA assembler can't generate the strict
> layout required for system modules.
>
>
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