[Coco] [Spam] Re: 4K CoCo 1 & EDTASM+

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Wed Jan 14 20:49:53 EST 2015


As far as I can see, saving using the Edtasm Editor should produce a good
file regardless, either with or without ECB, but the file will only be
loadable under ECB.  Saving from Zbug, either under Color Basic or
ECB, should produce a file that will load regardless of whether ECB is
present.

Art

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14 2015, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>
> It isn't quite clear from your description whether the version saved from
> > Zbug works under Color Basic, or only with Extended Basic.  That is, does
> > the ?FM error under Color Basic occur both with versions saved from the
> > Editor and from Zbug?
> >
>
> Using the P command within Zbug in a 4k CoCo Color Basic 1.0 is the only
> way to get a good object file; attempting to go by the book using assembly
> to tape within the Editor will result in a bad object file (CLOADM crashes
> into ?FM ERROR).
>
> As long as there is ECB present in the CoCo (16k, 32k, 64k RAM), assembly
> to tape from the EDTASM Editor will create a proper object file which will
> not crash CLOADM when loading.
>
> This is with the EDTASM+ Pak.
>
>
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