[Coco] Burke & Burke Book?

[Joel Ewy]

Leonard,

The B&B book is called "The 6309 Book:  Inside the 6309 Microprocessor" 
By Chris Burke.  (C)1992.  It's about 252 pages.  The layout of the book
is similar to "Programming the 6809" by Zaks and Labiak, and like that
book, it could be used as a complete programming reference.  The
sections are:
Section 1 Processor Overview
Section 2 Addressing Mode Reference
Section 3 Instruction Reference <- The majority of the book (149 pages),
contains comprehensive instruction descriptions, 1 per page.
Section 4 Application Information
Appendix A 6309 Programming Card <- A table of op. codes, mnemonics,
addressing modes, instruction sizes, and clock cycles in emulation mode
and native mode for each instruction.

If you can still find this book I would recommend it highly.

JCE

Leonard wrote:
> I saw someone reference a book by the title Burke & Burke 6309 book.  Can
> someone give me a description of the book?
>
> Leonard
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of tim lindner
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 4:42 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Is the 6309 worth it?
>
> Phill Harvey-Smith <afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> It's a real shame that Tandy did not do what Dragon did with their dos
>> and have a jump table at the beginning of the ROM for things like 
>> reading sectors,
>>     
>
> There is a documented subroutine for reading/writing sectors.
>
>   
>> opening/closing files etc.
>>     
>
> This is what was missing in documented ROM subroutines. Though Tandy did
> distribute Kilgus DOS that suppilied this functionality for their Disk
> EDTASM product. It ran on top of DECB so it had a large memory
> footprint.
>
> Did Tandy ever say it was OK to redistribute Kilgus DOS for programs
> that used it?
>
>   
>> Since I hopefully have a couple of 6309s on order, is there a good 
>> document on the extra modes/instructions anywhere ?
>>     
>
> The best I found was the Burke & Burke 6309 book. Two years ago he will
> still selling them. I'll dig up the email I used and forward it to you.
>
>