[Coco] What was used before EDTASM+?

[gene heskett]

On 8/2/22 22:56, John Guin wrote:
> 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

Yes John, but the Quest Super Elf could actually do something. In this 
case, control a 3/4" u-matic tape
recorder that you loaded a video tape into it, searched to find the 
first frame of a commercial to be seen on the air, and once the start 
frame, and length was entered, would drive the tape in reverse for 10 
seconds, put it back in record and record a new, timed to that first 
frame, beep tone that timed a 5 second pre-roll, recording
a new digital academy leader from 9.9 to 2.0 seconds, shut the recording 
off, but put another tone on
the second audio channel 5 seconds before the end of the commercial to 
trigger the next commercial in
another machine.

I built all the interfacing including generating those huge characters 
in the video so the operators could
read them from 20 feet away on a 5" monitor in the control room. We had 
5 players, so we could do
a station break with 5 commercials with one button push.

I was learning, so that was fun.
> -----Original Message-----
> 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+?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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+?
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Allen Huffman - PO Box 7634 - Urbandale IA 50323 - 515-999-0227
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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