[Coco] Color BASIC program on a cartridge?

[John W. Linville]

Yes, you could stash ML code in the ROM as well. Many things are
possible, with some changes to the loader required in some cases.

John

On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 10:05:04AM -0500, David Ladd wrote:
> 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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