[Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS

[Bill Pierce]

Juan,
It would be hard to test what you're doing on a Coco 3 as most of the functions already exists on a Coco 3 in the new basic cmds.
It would be hard to tell if the hdbdos command was getting results or SECB....
Also, most of the hooks you would be using on a Coco 1 & 2 will sometimes be already in use by SECB as it does it's own patching into basic.
I've got a feeling the functionality of a 16k hdbdos for Coco 1 & 2 and hdbdos for the Coco 3 would be completely different in what could and would be patched in.
As I said, most of things you are working on are already supported on the Coco 3 so are not needed and leave room for things more suited for the Coco 3. Like the ability to save & load hires graphics, DW4 support, a better line editor (full screen), memory bank switching, ram disk, Mutiple programming running (windows), file browser, etc
With the Coco 3, there's so much more memory to play with and the possibilities are endless.


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com>
To: Lista CoCo <coco3 at googlegroups.com>; CoCo List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 16, 2014 8:47 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS


Now I implemented the BUTTON() function. Could somebody test with a CoCo 3
joystick to see if both buttons work?

ROMs: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/16kroms.zip
Source patch:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/hdbdos-16krom.patch


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now LOCATE works. Even in 32x16 mode. Same links, updated files.
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now the WIDTH command works and drops you in the PMODE 4 screen if the
> > argument is 51 or 64. WIDTH 32 takes you back to text mode. Also, all
> > CoCo 3 tokens are recognized. But, of course, all but WIDTH will give
> > you an error.
> >
> > Next up: LOCATE. Then... BUTTON? ERR/ERNO/ERLIN?
> >
> > ROMs: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/16kroms.zip
> > Source patch:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/hdbdos-16krom.patch
> >
> > Juan
>

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