[Coco] Portal-9 IDE

jdaggett at gate.net jdaggett at gate.net
Fri Aug 26 10:03:22 EDT 2005


Bob

Looking at the disassembly from the unraveld II series, ,it really 
looks as if some of the functions could be consolodated. LIke 
HDRAW and DRAW and others. Could possibly recover several 
kilobytes of Rom space to do a GUI.

james 

On 26 Aug 2005 at 5:17, Robert Emery wrote:

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> One thing I'd like to see is what Nick M. mantioned a little while
> back, but it appeared to generate little interest. We need an updated
> Disk Basic. Nick wanted to incorporate a gui, which some of you know
> is an interest I share. I'd like to see a new DECB rom for the CoCo3
> with the following features: *DECB/HDBDOS software compatible
> *supports read/write to MSDOS formatted disks (default mode)
> *compatible with original RSDOS/OS9 formated disks (compatibility
> mode) *supports (requires?) RTC for file date/time stamping *built-in
> gui interface with hi-res joystick support
> 
> This is all just speculative dreaming. This is a project I think I
> could contribute a lot to, and could learn from the process of
> comparing my Basic programming methods with ML development.
> 
> Bob





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