[Coco] DriveWire bootstrapped off MP3 player!!! No floppy or controller required!

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Tue Sep 28 13:53:10 EDT 2004


alsplace at pobox.com wrote:

> Wasn't there a DLOADM too? I'm pretty sure I used to that to get my 
> first (binary) XFER program back in 1982 on my grey case CoCo 1 in Houston.
> 
> Is the DLOAD code completely gone in the CoCo 3?  Since they (Microware) 
> could only "patch" the Microsoft BASIC code, isn't DLOAD still there in 
> the Extended Color Basic ROM area?  Meaning someone could do a poke to 
> go back into CoCo 1/2 ROM mode then use DLOAD(M) on a CoCo 3?
> 
>     -- Allen
> 
> 

For as I know there is no DLOADM. DLOAD is not intact in the Coco3 and 
switching back to ROM mode will not recover it. DLOAD used to start at 
$8C1B but that is now the start of Ex.Basic Warm Start amongst other code.




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