[Coco] Cryptic BASIC program

[Salvador Garcia]

Likewise, thanks Barry! Salvador




-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 27, 2015 9:41 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Cryptic BASIC program


Well, thanks, Barry!  (Though I'd characterize ADOS as a set
of enhancements to
Disk Basic, rather than being an alternative to it, as
OS-9 is.)

Art

On Sun,
Sep 27, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Barry Nelson <
barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com>
wrote:

>  You can use the 64k of RAM to run a really cool alternate disk BASIC
like
> ADOS too, right Art? :)  The software is available at
>
http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Operating%20Systems/ADOS%20(SpectroSystems).zip
>
It is an excellent alternative to disk basic written by a fantastic
> programer.
;-) It was almost lost, but Art, who is the original author,
> sent me one of
the last disks with a working copy, which I was fortunately
> able to read with
error and create a disk image to save this software for
> prosperity. It has
many enhancements over standard disk basic. It works
> with a real disk
controller or the CoCo SDC. Actually, if you have a CoCo
> SDC, you can load
ADOS into one of the flash slots and load it that way.
>
> > Arthur Flexser
flexser at fiu.edu
> > Sun Sep 27 19:24:44 EDT 2015
> > Officially, Tandy took
the position that in order to use 64K, you needed
> to
> > use OS-9.  64K was
not supported under Basic.  However, there were ways
> to
> > take advantage of
the presence of 64K without OS-9.  One was to copy the
> > ROMs to RAM, and use
that either to modify the ROM code or to use unused
> > areas of the space in
high memory not taken up by ROM code for other
> > things.  Telewriter-64 and
some other word processors switched out the
> ROMs
> > (as OS-9 does) and used
the space for storing text.  There were some
> third
> > party programs that
enabled 64K memory to be used for Basic programming.
> > One was KEY264K, which
allowed you to switch between 32K banks which both
> > contained Basic
programs.
> >
> > Art
>
>
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