[Coco] Extended BASIC Helper Utilities

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Given that both ADOS and Coco3 added more token numbers, and that ADOS didn't 
take the care of numbering them from the end of the available range, there was a 
conflict which would cause ADOS's additional Disk Basic commands to appear as if 
they were Coco3-specific commands (HCIRCLE or whatever). Did ADOS-3 include a 
converter tool for those .BAS files, or was it handled transparently, or did the 
author just have to rewrite every conflicting token manually using EDIT or POKE ?

Just curious. I remember running ADOS3 a bit, but not programming for it, and 
I'm not sure I tried the original ADOS, and I don't even remember what's in 
ADOS3, but I did notice the conflict while browsing a text file.


Le 2017-03-02 à 00:19:00, Steve Ostrom a écrit :

> I fully agree with Art.  I purchased both ADOS and then ADOS-3 from Art soon 
> after he began selling them, and relied heavily on these excellent products. 
> My other favorite utilities back in the 80's and 90's were Color Disk 
> Manager and Color Tape Manager.  As Coco owners, we had some unbelievably 
> talented software writers that made using and programming the Coco a 
> wonderful experience.  And the development continues today with HDBDOS, 
> NitrOS9 , the Coco SDC, and the awesome products from Cloud-9.  (Can you 
> tell I'm still in love?)
>
> --- Coco Steve ---
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Arthur Flexser
> Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 9:38 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Extended BASIC Helper Utilities
>
> I hesitate to plug my own product (now available free in the list
> database), but I know of no better enhanced editing environment for BASIC
> on the CoCo 3 than that provided by Extended ADOS-3 along with ADOS-3.
> ADOS-3 can be run from disk, and allows you to use the arrow keys to move
> up and down in your program, with right arrow putting you into edit mode
> when you reach the line you want to edit. You can also edit the last
> direct-mode command.  Extended ADOS-3, which must be burned into a 16K
> EPROM along with ADOS-3, adds key repeat, which allows you to move right or
> left by holding down the spacebar or left arrow, and the ability to block
> move or copy ranges of lines.  The effect is to combine the best features
> of line editing and screen editing, in my biased opinion.
>
> (There are many other features as well, not pertaining to editing.)

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