[Coco] Relocatable ROM monitor

[Arthur Flexser]

Well, I'm not 100% certain it was relocatable.  But for the disk version,
it would have been a convenience.  And it may have been planned from the
outset that there would be other versions besides the rompack one.

Art

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:

> That’s interesting.  You wouldn’t ordinarily expect that a program
> originally written to reside in ROM at a fixed location on a program pak
> would have been written in relocatable code since that generally is a
> little more complicated and the resulting binary is not quite as dense as
> non-relocatable code.
>
> Dave
>
> > On Oct 2, 2018, at 10:36 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > It may be the ZBUG, included with Disk Edtasm+ from Radio Shack, already
> > handles everything you want.  I believe the Disk version of ZBUG includes
> > its own versions of CHROUT and POLCAT, though I'm not 100% sure about
> > that.  It's probably in the archives here.  It has also been patched by
> > third parties for 80-column output and some other niceties (Robert
> Gault?)
> > I'm pretty sure it is relocatable.
> >
> > Art
> >
> >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:14 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes it is. Thanks you very much!
> >>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 5:54 PM Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I got the monitor working on the CoCo.  It’s not relocatable and it
> >> relies on POLCAT and CHROUT right now: https://youtu.be/dcT5mnyPtCw
> >>>
> >>> It’ll take me a little time to write a keyboard scan routine, character
> >> out routine, re-format for 32 columns, and re-write a few sections for
> >> re-locatable code.  It allows you to view/edit memory locations, do a
> dump
> >> of memory from a specific address, and execute code at a specific
> address.
> >> Is that kind of what you want?
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>>> On Oct 2, 2018, at 1:35 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> 32.
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:34 AM Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yeah, that makes it a little more difficult since I'd have to write
> >> the
> >>>>> keyboard scan and text display routines from scratch.  They are
> >> normally
> >>>>> just a simply read/write to a UART.  What text mode do you plan on
> >> using
> >>>>> for the monitor (32,40,80)?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dave
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 10/2/2018 1:19 PM, tim lindner wrote:
> >>>>>> I love to see it. But it'll prolly also need adjusting to read the
> >>>>>> CoCo keyboard and output to the CoCo video.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm looking for something that doesn't depend on POLCAT or CHROUT.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:16 AM Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>>> I have a monitor that I’ve used for years on embedded systems. It
> >> probably wouldn’t be too tough to make sure it’s relocatable. It uses a
> few
> >> locations in direct page RAM though.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Dave
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Oct 2, 2018, at 10:16 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Does anyone know of a relocatable ROM monitor program for the
> CoCo?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Something I can load in to RAM arbitrarily and start peeking and
> >>>>>>>> poking RAM, ROM and peripherals?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
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