[Coco] disassembling

jdaggett at gate.net jdaggett at gate.net
Wed Jan 14 18:37:12 EST 2004


Robert 

Where can one obtain that software?

james


On 14 Jan 2004 at 16:52, Robert Gault wrote:

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> Roger Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Is there much disassembling going on today?  I've had a request or
> > two for adding a disassembler mode to Portal-9.  It sounds
> > interesting enough that we could take one of the many CoCo .rom
> > files or .bin files and turn them back into source code that is
> > ready to be reassembled.
> > 
> > If I add this mode, it would work by taking a preloaded binary file
> > and then converting it into another edit window as CCASM source
> > code.  I think a panel of switches should be available so the user
> > can quickly toggle some modes, change a few params, then do it again
> > until the source code is workable, cutting down on how much manual
> > editing will be required, if any.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > ----------
> > Roger Taylor
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Use the CerComp Source III as a model. This disassembler has a fast
> mode which works like the EDTASM debug, but it also has a full mode
> which saves the created source to disk as an .asm file.
> 
> The best thing about this program is that the user can enter addresses
> for blocks of fcb, fcc, and skip. The full mode will then take the
> byte table into account during disassembly. The byte table can be
> saved to disk so that multi-session disassemblies are possible.
> 
> The program has ascii and hex dump window to facilitate creating the
> above byte table.
> 
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