[Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 23:21:00 EST 2014


the second pin is not connected on a coco 1/2

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, I want to test this in a CoCo 2 using a CoCo 3 joystick. These ROMs are
> for replicating some functions of SECB on previous CoCos.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Juan,
>> It would be hard to test what you're doing on a Coco 3 as most of the
>> functions already exists on a Coco 3 in the new basic cmds.
>> It would be hard to tell if the hdbdos command was getting results or
>> SECB....
>> Also, most of the hooks you would be using on a Coco 1 & 2 will sometimes
>> be already in use by SECB as it does it's own patching into basic.
>> I've got a feeling the functionality of a 16k hdbdos for Coco 1 & 2 and
>> hdbdos for the Coco 3 would be completely different in what could and would
>> be patched in.
>> As I said, most of things you are working on are already supported on the
>> Coco 3 so are not needed and leave room for things more suited for the Coco
>> 3. Like the ability to save & load hires graphics, DW4 support, a better
>> line editor (full screen), memory bank switching, ram disk, Mutiple
>> programming running (windows), file browser, etc
>> With the Coco 3, there's so much more memory to play with and the
>> possibilities are endless.
>>
>>
>> Bill Pierce
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>>
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com>
>> To: Lista CoCo <coco3 at googlegroups.com>; CoCo List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sun, Feb 16, 2014 8:47 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Having fun with hacking HDB-DOS
>>
>>
>> Now I implemented the BUTTON() function. Could somebody test with a CoCo 3
>> joystick to see if both buttons work?
>>
>> ROMs: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/16kroms.zip
>> Source patch:
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/hdbdos-16krom.patch
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Now LOCATE works. Even in 32x16 mode. Same links, updated files.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > Now the WIDTH command works and drops you in the PMODE 4 screen if the
>> > > argument is 51 or 64. WIDTH 32 takes you back to text mode. Also, all
>> > > CoCo 3 tokens are recognized. But, of course, all but WIDTH will give
>> > > you an error.
>> > >
>> > > Next up: LOCATE. Then... BUTTON? ERR/ERNO/ERLIN?
>> > >
>> > > ROMs: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/16kroms.zip
>> > > Source patch:
>> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15643089/hdbdos-16krom.patch
>> > >
>> > > Juan
>> >
>>
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