[Coco] What was used before EDTASM+?

[John Guin]

Gene,

You mentioned the 1802 in one of these replies.  This modern kit computer uses an 1802 to re-create the COSMAC Elf - a Popular Electronics build from the 70s.

Link http://www.sunrise-ev.com/1802.htm

Currently making the rounds - IIRC, this bubbled up on Hacker News recently.

Enjoy!
John

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> On Behalf Of gene heskett via Coco
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 7:38 PM
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Cc: gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
Subject: Re: [Coco] What was used before EDTASM+?

On 8/2/22 20:22, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> Also, I think the "Super Sleuth" stuff (editor/assembeler, disassembler, monitor, etc) came out pretty early on. I don't exactly remeber when. The manual I have says "Copyright 1983" but they could've had earlier version.
That was from Professer Bud Pass, who was the master of machine code IMO, the copy I have is original, as he sold the source code, you had to assemble it and make it work.

Written in os9 level 1 version 1.00.00 asm complete with its 5 digit labels. It looked pretty easy to adapt it to the later nemonics, so I contacted  Bud and asked his permission to see if I could bring it up to date, and got a firm yes with a big smiley.

So I first brought it up to the later nemonics, then when Chet Simpson spelled out what the HD6309E could do, I added that, so it was a full level 2 disassembler for nitros9 stuff for me. And what a disser it was, the only disser we ever had that could give you src code that when re-assembled, had the same crc as the original. Xero mistakes.

We have others that are less tomfoolery to use, but while their output ran usually ran like the original, the CRC was different.

Anybody who took Buds classes at the U. of Georgia was truly being taught by a master.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Cc: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> Sent: Tue, Aug 2, 2022 7:00 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] What was used before EDTASM+?
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>> On Aug 2, 2022, at 5:46 PM, Christopher R. Hawks via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>>
>>      I used an editor/assembler written in BASIC typed in from the 
>> Color Computer News for my first projects.
>
> I'll go looking for that one. Revisitng these earlier years is very interesting, especially in hindsight.
>
> I just read through the 1983 Rainbow article that Curtis mentioned and it's a great intro to what OS-9 was. I wish I had gotten in to it sooner, but I just wanted to write BASIC and play games.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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