[Coco] Converting MC-10 Basic to Coco Basic

[Charlie Pelosi]

Hi Robert.
The MC-10 allows entering the text graphics right from the keyboard when 
holding the control key. The same way it allows entry of basic commands with 
a single key stroke. If you look at the keyboard you can see the commands 
and text graphics silk screened on the computer. If I remember right, you 
cycle through the color used with the text graphics using control 0. Maybe, 
it has been a long time.
Here is a good page that shows the keyboard.
http://www.system-cfg.com/detailcollection.php?ident=114
Charlie

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From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:16 AM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: [Coco] Converting MC-10 Basic to Coco Basic

> I saw that an MC-10 program was recently uploaded to the
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ with an interesting name, SwelFoop; 
> actually Swell Foop aka Fell Swoop. I just had to look at that game. :)
>
> Well the upload was in .c10 format which when changed to .cas did load 
> into MESS. However as the tokens for MC-10 Basic don't match those for 
> Coco Basic the results were not useful. I did find an MC-10 emulator into 
> which the game loaded correctly. I then printed it to a PC file which was 
> loaded into MESS as an asci Basic file.
> The game with LIST was almost correct with a few strange results.
>
> It seems that MC-10 Basic permits placing low res graphic characters 
> directly into PRINT"" statements without using CHR$(). When the program 
> was LISTed in the MC-10 emulator the PRINT statements displayed the 
> graphic characters. When LISTed on a Coco, you got PRINT at T+32,"";. The 
> content did not display even though the data could be seen when the 
> program was examined on disk.
>
> I can't even guess how such data was entered into those PRINT statements.
>
> Anyway, I've uploaded a Coco version of the game to the archive.
>
> Robert
>
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