[Coco] 6809 compilers

William Astle lost at l-w.ca
Fri Aug 8 10:52:53 EDT 2014


You'll find it over at sourceforge where the project is hosted. 
(toolshed.sf.net I believe).

On 14-08-08 04:32 AM, tim at franklinlabs.com wrote:
> Forgive my naivete but where is the toolshed repository kept? Bitbucket? I can't
> seem to find it.
> '
>
>
> On August 7, 2014 at 11:29 PM William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:
>> I believe that has already been done. I think you'll find the result in
>> the toolshed mercurial repository.
>>
>> On 14-08-07 08:32 PM, tim at franklinlabs.com wrote:
>>> Has anyone done this....
>>>
>>> I took the Color Basic Unraveled Series (Color Basic so far) and text
>>> grabbed
>>> the source code to a text (.asm) file. I brought it into the Dunfield
>>> assembler
>>> and after some cleanup and error correction I no have a fully sourced CoCo
>>> O.S.
>>> ready for modification.
>>>
>>> Why did I do this? Why does anyone climb a mountain? Because it's there! LOL
>>>
>>> Anyway, I haven't ran it on a CoCo yet but I see no reason to think it
>>> shouldn't
>>> run.
>>>
>>> I plan on doing the ECB and DECB also. If anyone wants a copy, let me know.
>>>
>>> -Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On August 7, 2014 at 9:58 PM Greg Law <glaw at live.com> wrote:
>>>> Joel Ewy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Actually, it looks like the LRtech Superboard was a SCSI adapter for the
>>>>> CoCo (3) from a little later on in the '80s, so it might have been code
>>>>> for the rma assembler instead. I'm not sure I could tell the difference
>>>>> at a glance. May have been developed on a CoCo 3 in OS-9 Level II. But
>>>>> it is definitely OS-9 device driver and device descriptor code.
>>>>
>>>> Assembler sources for the asm assembler have a mod statement toward the top
>>>> and an emod statement near the end whereas sources for the RMA assembler
>>>> have psect/csect/vsect statements. Sources are system modules (kernel,
>>>> managers, device drivers, and device descriptors) all use the asm assembler
>>>> because (if I'm not mistaken) the RMA assembler can't generate the strict
>>>> layout required for system modules.
>>>>
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