[Coco] CoCoRX

[Daniel Campos]

Yes. We lack a good diags cart for the CoCo. There is the "CoCoChecker" 
but we still need to load it from a disk or cassete...

Daniel

On 28/05/2015 14:58, Mark Marlette wrote:
> John makes a great point here.
>
> It really should be on a cart, otherwise all kinds of assumptions are being made to get the program loaded. There are assumptions on the pak approach as well, just not so many.
>
>
>   Mark Marlette
> http://www.cloud9tech.com
> mark at cloud9tech.com
>
>        From: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
>   To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>   Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:22 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCoRX
>     
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:12:42PM -0500, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>> I am working on an idea for a CoCo program…. CoCoRX
>>
>> The vision is a complete system test program that checks out a CoCo from top to bottom including:
>>
>> - RAM
>> - Video
>> - Cassette
>> - Serial
>> - Joysticks
>>
>> It’s a 6809 assembly program, and must work on any CoCo. Adaptability to test CoCo 1/2 as well as CoCo 3 features is a must.
>>
>> I’d like to make this an open source project on GitHub, but only if I can get committals from people who can contribute.
>>
>> If you’re serious about working on this with me and have the 6809 skills and understanding of the components of the CoCo to test, let me know!
> I could probably get into this.  I've never really written any diag
> stuff, but it could be a good skill to develop.
>
> Are you thinking of using some sort of test harness to exercise
> the external ports too?  Will you be producing a cartridge for the
> software? :-)
>
> John


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