[Coco] What is the next "step" in my education?

[Barry Nelson]

I use both approaches. I find the list of peeks, pokes and execs extremely handy. Since others have already replied with memory maps, etc, here is a link to the peeks, pokes and execs documents.

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Books/500_POKES_PEEKS_'N_EXECS.pdf

http://www.coco3.com/community/2009/10/reference-list-of-pokes-peeks-and-execs/

For the CoCo SDC

http://subethasoftware.com/2015/01/06/cocosdc-for-trs-80-color-computer-part-6/

> Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu 
> Fri Jun 24 14:53:28 EDT 2016
> With PEEKs and POKEs, there's both a "dumb user" and a "smart user"
> approach.  The "dumb user" approach is to just find a reference that lists
> some of them and use them where needed, without understanding how they
> work.  There's a booklet called something like "500 PEEKs, POKEs, and
> EXECs" that was published by Microcom and is probably somewhere in the
> database associated with this list.
> 
> The "smart user" approach involves a lot more work:  you have to both learn
> 6809 assembly language and also familiarize yourself with what is in the
> CoCo ROMs.  There's a complete disassembly of the ROMs available online in
> the "Unravelled" series of books from Spectral Associates, but to make much
> sense of them, you probably have to know assembler.  Though the books have
> a lot of technical information in them besides the disassembly, so it is
> possible that they might be somewhat helpful in any case.
> 
> Art