[Coco] cartridge edtasm image for vcc

[Frank Pittel]

John,

Funny you should mention that. I was on the phone with John from gccc and I mention that
I've been thinking about using mamou as an assembler for a number of years.
Shouldn't even need a make file a short shell script should be able to handle the
assembly and create the disk image. I'm going to have to put some time and effort into
this! :-)

the other Frank


On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:54:11AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:01:25PM -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been working on a program downloads data from a datalogger via the bitbanger
> > > and then processes it. It's not a huge amount of data but enough that I will
> > > need to page switch the memory and currently my best attempts have been very good
> > > at hanging the emulator! :-)
> > >
> > > That results in me having to reload the goofy edtasm dos and restarting edtasm and
> > > finally reloading my source file. I remember back in the day when using the cartridge
> > > version of edtasm that it's an autostart cart and all I would need to do is reset the
> > > emulator and then reload the "tape" version. In either case the disk or tape image is
> > > really just a disk file and while still slower then "disk" the small files I'll be
> > > loading should still load faster then restarting disk edtasm. Does this make sense to
> > > anyone but myself?
> > 
> > You might find MESS useful here.   It has a debugger that lets you
> > halt, step through instructions, inspect/edit multiple memory areas at
> > the same time, set breakpoints, view registers, etc.  It's very nice
> > for debugging tricky code.  You can also save/restore the machine
> > state an any point.
> 
> While you are at it, you should consider switching to mamou(*) for your
> assembler.  Then you could use sane tools on your modern system to
> edit/manage your sources, etc.  A little Makefile magic could build
> your code and generate disk images automatically for you.  Then you
> just load your code from disk in the emulator to test w/o having to
> deal w/ 30 year old tools on the target.
> 
> Just a thought... :-)
> 
> John
> 
> * Mamou is a good choice because it understands the RSDOS BIN format
> already.  There are also any number of other "absolute" assemblers for
> the 6809 that can be pressed into service.  In that case you either
> add the BIN format header and footer yourself or in most cases you can
> 'trick' the assembler into doing that work for you -- ask me how! :-)
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