[Coco] Fooling around with assembly in RS-DOS environment

[Bill Pierce]

Also, I'm pretty sure there's a patched version of EDTASM that uses the 80 column screen amd possibly even lower case.
Running it on VCC gives the feel of a Coco, but the convenience of a PC keyboard. I hate trying to type "special" characters on the Coco, it's always been a pain.

But both the LWTools and ToolShed packages are nice if you want to stay in the PC environment. There's also Roger's RainboIDE wich gives you an IDE to work in as well as several assemblers. I use this quite often :-)

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Patterson <lee at 8bitcoder.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Apr 10, 2016 9:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Fooling around with assembly in RS-DOS environment

Rich,I found it really quick and easy to edit the assembly file(s) in my native machine (Mac) then use lwtools for compiling. Then run in your favorite emulator. If you fancy a little debugging, and register inspection (which you should), Simon recently got me hooked on using XRoar and EDTASM's ZBUG. MAME does have a debugger, but it doesn't feel as nice to use as EDTASM.Have a peek at my article http://www.8bitcoder.com/optimizesprite/ where I talk a little about using ZBUG. It's not a complete tutorial by any stretch. I also list the location of EDTASM's manual there.--- -- -  -www.8BitCoder.com> On Apr 10, 2016, at 8:21 PM, Rich Carreiro <rlcarr at gmail.com> wrote:> > The other day I was able to unearth my copy of Barden's> CoCo Assembly book.  I'd like to start reviewing/reteaching> myself the material.> > I don't have the time to learn OS/9 (never used it back> in the day, either) so I was wondering what there was in> the context of an emulated RS-DOS environment to assemble> programs.> > I'm not a purist on this -- it does NOT have to be EDTASM> running on the emulated CoCo (in fact, I'd probably prefer> it wasn't, since I don't feel like dealing with 32-char line> lengths and all-caps when programming).> > Are there any CoCo assemblers that can run in Windows> or Linux that can create executables that a CoCo emulator> can load and run?> > Thanks!> > -- > Rich Carreiro             rlcarr at gmail.com> > -- > Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco