[Coco] Roger Schrag's patches for Edtasm

[Arthur Flexser]

An important additional feature was that it greatly expanded the memory
available for program storage by using the RAM at $8000 and above, switching out
the ROMs and temporarily switching them back in when ROM calls were needed.  
This was the first program that I am aware of that made use of this technique;  
prior to then, the only use of the upper RAM space I'd seen was to copy the ROMs
there and use the space above the ROM code for storage.

Art

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Robert Gault wrote:

> Roger's patches were for the cartridge version of EDTASM. Disk commands 
> were added so that files could be loaded and saved from/to a disk and a 
> directory could be obtained within the editor and debug. Tape commands 
> were removed. A repeat key function was added and some cosmetic changes 
> were made.
> 
> Tony C wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have documentation on what Roger Schrag's patches did for
> > Edtasm?
> > I remember his name/patch from many years ago, but that's it :-)
> >  Were new commands /features added to Etdasm with this patch?
> >    It's wierd how one's memory works. Even after 10-12 years of not having
> > used a Coco, I associated the name "Roger Schrag" with some patch for
> > edtasm, but that's all I can remember.
> > However, when trying to load a program from a .DSK image the other night, I
> > typed load "filename.bas":0 like I had not stopped using the coco :-)
> >  thanks
> > 
> 
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