[Coco] Color BASIC program on a cartridge?

[David Ladd]

John,

Thank you for letting us know.  This will be very useful. :D

It should be possible to put your basic program & any ML sub routines into
the ROM space yes?

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On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 9:51 AM, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
wrote:

> One of the objections some people have had to distributing their
> programs in cartridge form has been that their programs were written
> in BASIC. With the help of some ancient knowledge from the Internet
> (aka an old Geocities page from "PaulD"), some more recent advice
> from Robert Gault, and my own experimentation, I have documented on
> the Retro Tinker blog a means of loading Color BASIC (and Extended
> Color BASIC) programs from a ROM cartridge:
>
> http://retrotinker.blogspot.com/2017/08/color-basic-
> program-on-cartridge.html
>
> The technique (including the Errata changes described in the comments)
> seems to be working for me. Elsewhere Barry Nelson pointed-out that
> the technique doesn't work with CoCo3 "Super Extended Color BASIC"
> programs. I did a bit more experimentation and I think I have that
> working as well -- but that will have to wait for the next blog
> post... ;-)
>
> Enjoy!
>
> John
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