[Coco] CoCo Questions

[David Roper]

Hi Dan,

Welcome to the list!
 
Where in this great wide world are you based, by the way? We've got 
members all over the place!

No doubt some of the more technical list members will be able to assist 
you, and we'd love to hear about how your projects progress over time

Once again, a warm welcome, and we look forward to hearing more about 
you and your CoCo adventures!

Kind regards,

David Roper


Dan Olson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the list, I've recently gotten interested in the CoCo again 
> and haven't had any luck finding much useful information on the 'net 
> so I hope I'm in the right place.  I've been thinking about trying my 
> hand at building my own cartridge, but I hate to tear apart one of my 
> good ones, as I have so few...and it looks like there's a screw under 
> the label. Does anyone have one in the junk pile that they'd be 
> willing to part with? I've also been wondering, on a 64k machine, I 
> know that part of the memory has to get mapped out in order to use the 
> BASIC ROM, can BASIC actually make use of the full 64k of memory 
> (without pokes and peeks) or is the ROM always mapped in instead of 
> RAM?  Also, I've seen some mention of sound cartridges and other 
> things that plug into the cartridge slot (aside from the more common 
> MPI, disk, RS-232) but have seen little more than that. Is there a 
> more complete list somewhere?  For that matter, any pointers to web 
> sites with technical info would be great too.  Sorry about all the 
> questions (jumping all over the place) for a first-e-mail, hopefully 
> someone out there can point me in the right direction!  Thanks.
>
>     Dan
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