[Coco] Disk image

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 27 July 2015 04:03:55 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 27 July 2015 03:31:49 Dave Philipsen wrote:
> > So, are you still in contact with Bud?  I haven't talked to him
> > since probably 1991.  Does he care if the CSC assemblers or any
> > other of his work is disseminated?
>
> I never asked about the assemblers, just Sleuth.  I got the impression
> that he was more intersted in seeing it used, than in any miniscule
> amount of money he could make selling it.
>
> > Actually, I bought the source code from him for
> > the assemblers.  I also remember using Sleuth.  In fact, Sleuth
> > probably helped me land a job at the corporate HQ of a company down
> > in Texas back in the 80s because I believe it was Sleuth that I used
> > to reverse engineer a little 6809-based controller board and the
> > company needed some firmware changes.  The original company that
> > designed the board was unwilling to make the changes so I stepped up
> > to the plate. They hired me on in no time.
> >
> > Dave Philipsen
>
> I'd have to go back thru my email corpus here to locate my last msg
> from Bud.  I have around 13 years worth, and I expect its been most of
> 10 years since we last msgd each other.
>
> Except that when I fired off the search, it reports scanning 1447
> messages, so my inbox housekeeping is good.  So now I have sent it to
> look at the coco folder which is a couple gigabytes.  And this will
> take some time. This is only a quad core phenom, but amanda is running
> too. My backup program...
>
> Humm, 87324 messages searched for sleuth in the subject, pass in the
> from, and no hits.  Strange.  I'll send another search party out in
> the morning when I have a bit more of the machine to use.

Did that, not a great bit of luck, so I must have called him on the 
phone.  At the time I did it, the phone number in the docs was valid.  
Might have to do some googling to find a current number.  He was in 
Conyers GA at the time. I have faint memories of talking to him twice.

At any  rate, Bill Pierce has dl'd what I have, and has now fixed the 
character case usages to match our current defs, and has added most of 
those defines Boisy has newly defined.  And apparently I did not add the 
6309 stuff, so someone with adequate 6309 docs still needs to do that.

Bill Pierce, if you've time to pack up what you've done in one of our 
later archiveing tools, and send it to me, I'll put that up on my web 
page too.  No use of others haveing to re-invent that same sized wheel 
repeatedly. A .dsk would be handy since many of us have drivewire.

> > On 7/27/2015 1:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Monday 27 July 2015 01:56:01 Dave Philipsen wrote:
> > >> EDTASM+ was the first assembler I ever used and it was the first
> > >> accessory I ever bought for my 4K Color Computer.  I learned 6809
> > >> assembler with it and my Lance Leventhal book back in 1979 I
> > >> think. It's an excellent starting point but I must admit that
> > >> after I got started I quickly moved on to the assembler that came
> > >> with OS9 L1 then L2 then the AS assembler.  Now, for standalone
> > >> embedded applications without an operating system I use the
> > >> CSC6809 assembler that is probably at least 25 years old but very
> > >> capable. I have the 6801/11, 6502, 8048, and 8051 versions of it
> > >> too along with some nice utilities for manipulating object code
> > >> files.  These programs were written by a guy named Bud Pass (PhD)
> > >> down in Georgia.  I have no idea if he still markets them.
> > >>
> > >> Dave Philipsen
> > >
> > > No. But when a friend bought a copy of sleuth, and found it was
> > > src code that he had no clue how to assemble, it got handed off to
> > > me, where I also found that its asssembly nemonics and names were
> > > still the original 5 byte long versions from the first ever
> > > release of os9 level1 version 1.00.00 style and incompatible with
> > > the defs files I had from version 1.01.00 (the $29.95 upgrade to
> > > level 1).  And by then the coco3 had been out long enough that I
> > > had one.
> > >
> > > So I emailed Bud and asked for his permission to bring it up to
> > > date and his reply was a most gracious yes.  I've since brought it
> > > up to level 2 and 6309 compatibility.  Due to the way it was
> > > organized originally, that was relatively easy.  I've since been
> > > given permission to post it on my web page for all to use.
> > >
> > > This is not a 1 pass disassembler, as you must build up a file it
> > > references to tell it when to treat what it reads as vars/strings,
> > > and what is executable code.  So it takes a bit of work to use it,
> > > but the end result will then re-assemble to the exact same crc.
> > >
> > > I will also state that anyone who took Bud's course, was taking
> > > the course from a true master of the craft.
> > >
> > >> On 7/27/2015 12:05 AM, Kip Koon wrote:
> > >>> Hi Bill,
> > >>> Here's some dropbox links for you.  The EDTASM.zip file has both
> > >>> Tandy's EDTASM and Robert Gault's upgrade EDTASM++.  EDTASM.dsk
> > >>> is the TANDY EDTASM I believe and EDTASM++.dsk and EDTASM++.txt
> > >>> is Robert Gault's Upgrade of EDTASM++.  The upgrade was adapting
> > >>> EDTASM to the 6309 microprocessor.  I'm giving you both just in
> > >>> case you might someday need it.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>