[Coco] Re: Re: CoCo related question? (Better edit for coco3.rom)

Albert Stinger albertstinger24 at canada.com
Wed Mar 23 15:20:40 EST 2005


So, what your saying is patch the edit command to map in the wasted 7376
author bytes with the new code put there and jump into that segment. Is it
possible to fit a screen editor into 7376 bytes? What does a screen editor
need to do to make it nice enough?  Things like cursor key movement. How
much interfacing to Extended Color Basic is required for it to work?

Albert Stinger

<jdaggett at gate.net> wrote in message 
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> Albert
>
> Not a lot. The Color basic Rom Code 1.2 from $A000 to $BFFF has
> about 10 bytes or so. The Extended Color Basic Rom is full and
> Super Extended basic Rom has 1012 bytes free from $FA0C to
> FDFF.  Finally DOS 1.1 ROM has 167 bytes free.
>
> Not really much room to do a screen type editor.
>
> Now if you map the 8K space from $C000 to $DFFF as internal rom
> and get rid of the author's picture you can recover about  7376
> bytes. Otherwise you have about 1172 bytes give take a few. Could
> be more depending on how much of the old DLOAD code is
> patched and what isleft of it can be overwritten with a patch.
>
>
> james
>
>
> On 23 Mar 2005 at 13:07, Albert Stinger wrote:
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>> More questions,
>>
>> Exactly how much rom space is available in the coco3 rom and
>> could be used to make a better edit command?  Where is this
>> rom space located in the rom image?  What would be the best
>> way to interface to the edit command so you could have full
>> screen editing with the cursor keys?
>>
>> "Albert Stinger" 
>> <albertstinger24 at canada.com>
>> wrote in message news:d1s26r$ipo$1 at sea.gmane.org...
>> > Is someone or anyone making a slightly better edit for the
>> > coco3.rom? Please! Full screen editing to go in the wasted rom space
>> > would be nice.
>> >
>> > Albert Stinger.
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