[Coco] CoCo 2 and CoCo 3 BASIC mods

[Barry Nelson]

I would love to get a copy of those CoCo 2 and CoCo 3 BASIC mods. Any chance you might find them?

On Apr 26, 2015, at 5:11 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 02:37:56 -0400
> From: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rom2Ram (was) Easy way to copy 40 track disks to
> 	the CoCoSDC?
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> Darren, good idea. I haven't looked at that routine in 20 years. The one I used most was a "basic loader" that poked the code from data statements. I'm sure it had the interrupts blocked while copying. I had gotten the routine from Rainbow back in the early 80s. I know at one time I had used EDTASM to make a rom2ram.asm file as well as an ML file loadable by basic, by using zbug on the poked code.
> I haven't even seen that code in years, though I know it's on one of my dsk images if not 20 or 30 of them.
> I used it as part of a routine for my Coco 2 to set up several enhancements to ECB and eventually to DECB, like OS9 style direct entry i.e:
> 
> LYRA<ENTER>
> as opposed to
> LOADM"LYRA":EXEC<ENTER>
> (Yes, it worked on basic and ML programs)
> 
> Other enhancements were "current drive #" (i.e."D0:")instead of "OK:" prompt, alternate cursors, drive 0 & 1 as drives 0,1,2,& 3, and HPOKE which was a "word" poke (poking 2 bytes at once). I also added a highly modified version of Steve Bjork's "Mouse" utility to the bunch, with 51 column pmode 4 screen, dual fonts, changable mouse pointers, and loadable fonts. I included almost every mod I could find in my old Rainbows & Hot Cocos. All the routines were stored above DECB. I know I have the BIN file, but I'd probably have to disassemble it to get a source file as I think that disk got trashed during the flood of hurricane Floyd. It was all done in EDTASM. Originally, it started as the "Mouse" program for cassette, then I added a couple of mods to that (51 column screen), then I bought my disk drive and started adding the drive enhancements.
> 
> Once I got my Coco 3, I no longer needed most of the stuff and the program was left behind. I think I did do one Coco 3 version with the disk mods and the direct enrty. It still resides on all my old Coco disks (and images). It was titled "DOS/BIN" and when I started my Coco 2 (& 3), I would put in a disk and type LOADM"DOS":EXEC.
> Of course after I got heavily into OS9 L2, I rarely went back to basic for anything other than running LYRA or games and since I wasn't a big gamer, that was rare :-)
> 
> I also used the rom switch (no copy) on my highly modified version of Rainbow's "CocoDraw" which I modified to access 5 extra pmode 4 screens (under the roms) and "*PAINT" by H. Allen Curtis which allowed CocDraw to paint in 256 colors (dot patterns) and quite a few other mods. I had added "almost" every feature that was in CocoMax II.
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> Those were the good ol' days :-)
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> Bill Pierce
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