[Coco] cocotape update

[Roger Taylor]

At 05:53 PM 11/28/2009, you wrote:
>I remember reading on the coco3 website that the author of cocotape 
>was going to update the program because of some problems with it 
>loading certain files onto a real coco. Anyone know if a new version 
>has been made?



The first releast of CoCoTape was mainly for debugging 
purposes.  People were asking to get it now so I put it out there 
before it was really complete. I'm too busy to update CoCoTape right 
now due to trying to catch up on pak orders.  The program is written 
in HLA for Windows and although my plan was to port it over to VB.NET 
to finish it, I think I just need to get the 
multi-record/segment/origin part working and it's done.  Right now 
that mode sends a demo screen to the CoCo proving that it's possible 
to CLOADM a ML program of that fashion from the PC.  The other file 
types should send CLOAD or CLOADM into the CoCo ok.

I might just release the source code and let everybody have their way 
with it.  Most coders can probably eye translate the HLA source into 
something more portable, although HLA is becoming a more portable 
compiler/assembler these days and is available for the Mac I think, 
Linux, and Windows, and possibly more.  I'm moving into the Visual 
Studio realm so any project previously built using HLA/RadASM has 
slowed down until the ports to VS.NET are done.

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~ Roger Taylor