[Coco] CoCoNet status and ideas

Diego Barizo diegoba at adinet.com.uy
Sat Dec 13 22:18:30 EST 2008


FWIW, I wrote some kind of HTML viewer in BASIC a while ago.
Since it does all the text rendering using DRAW, and was the first 
program I was writting since the 90's, it's quite slow and poorly 
written, but might give some ideas to others...
http://yaccs.info/PROGRAMAS/NETSCOCO/netscoco.html

Diego


Roger Taylor wrote:
>
>
> 10 DRIVE 0,"c:\coconet\coconet.dsk"
> 20 DRIVE 1,"d:\workdisk.dsk":DSKINI 1
> 30 DLOAD 1,"http:\\www.coco3.com","index.htm"
> 50 OPEN "I",1,"INDEX.HTM"
> 60 ...... do something with the web page .....
> 70 CLOSE #1
>
> Anybody have a CoCo HTML viewer in BASIC yet?  Now's the time.
>
> I'm working now to put in an automatic DOS command on power-up, or RUN 
> "*.BAS:0" which only gets executed if the option is selected either 
> from the PC server app or the CoCo.
>
> DRIVE 0,DOS or some other keyword will be used to do this.  Every time 
> you turn the CoCo on, the DOS command would get called.  The PC server 
> app can turn it off.




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