[Coco] 6809 compilers

tim at franklinlabs.com tim at franklinlabs.com
Fri Aug 8 06:32:13 EDT 2014


Forgive my naivete but where is the toolshed repository kept? Bitbucket? I can't
seem to find it.
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On August 7, 2014 at 11:29 PM William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:
> I believe that has already been done. I think you'll find the result in
> the toolshed mercurial repository.
>
> On 14-08-07 08:32 PM, tim at franklinlabs.com wrote:
> > 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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