[Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS

[Juan Castro]

No, I want to test this in a CoCo 2 using a CoCo 3 joystick. These ROMs are
for replicating some functions of SECB on previous CoCos.


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
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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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