[Coco] Rainbow IDE 2.0 Basic and Gold in the works

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 01 January 2007 03:06, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
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>From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 6:29 AM
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Rainbow IDE 2.0 Basic and Gold in the works
>
>> That's a great idea but far far beyond what SourceIII does if the OP
>> is Fedor.
>
>The Reference was to Source III.
>
>I may have confused it to "Sourcer", a 8088 to Pentium Commenting
> dissembler by "V Communications Inc." (1993).
>
There is also a Sourcerer, written for os9 systems by a comp-sci prof 
named Bud Pass.  This was a very capable utility, but he wrote it for os9 
level 1's original version 1.00, with its shorter define names and such.  
A friend of mine bought a copy, (it came as src code only, you had to 
build it) but couldn't make it build & asked me to see what I could do.  
It was very well organized code, so bringing it up to the new version 
defines we're all familiar with was a piece of cake, and later adding 
things for level 2 and even later for nitros9 was quite easy.  Prof. Bud 
Pass, in a communication with him at the time basicly gave me permission 
to do whatever with it.

Unfortunately, while it was dead accurate when used correctly, it also 
requires many many runs as you have to co-write as you go, a descriptive 
file that changes its behavior when it runs across an FCC of FCS, so its 
a lot of trouble and I found Ron Lammardo's Disasm with 6309 stuff added 
was easier to use in the long run. I don't know if a copy still exists on 
my system or not, that was way back when all I had was a couple of 
floppies & a gleam in my eye that seems to have faded to the undetectable 
level now.

Have a Healthy, Happy New Year everyone.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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