[Coco] CB, ECB, DECB, & SECB

Wayne Campbell asa.rand at gmail.com
Sat Jun 10 04:16:47 EDT 2017


Thanks for the correction, Art. I was not completely certain that I was
getting it right. Yes, I remember that the DOS command was in DECB. When I
started with OS-9 Level 1 I had to type that RUN *.* or whatever it was to
boot it, then switch to the system disk to have OS-9 available. I liked the
DOS command much better.

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> Almost correct.  There is no such thing as a Super Extended Color Basic ROM
> per se.  Super Extended Basic is contained in a portion of the CoCo 3's
> internal ROM, along with Color Basic and Extended Basic and quite a bit of
> setup code that puts everything where it belongs in memory and initializes
> various things.  (Plus, they used 6K of left over space in that 32K ROM to
> put the picture of the 3 Mugateers that you see when you hit reset with the
> shift and control keys down.)
>
> (Also, the DOS command is in Disk Basic, not Super Extended Basic.)
>
> Art
>
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> >  These are:
> > Color BASICExtended Color BASICDisk Extended Color BASIC
> > Not sure what SECB is... Super, Supreme, Superior... ?
> > If I understand correctly, these are all the ROMs that were released by
> > Tandy/Radio Shack in the Color Computer.Is that correct?
> >
> > Thanks! Salvador
> >
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Wayne

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