[Coco] White plug n power controller on the coco3

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Ah… that program is loading overtop the Disk Basic data area (which starts at 1536) - so it was written with only tape in mind. It might work if you use a pre-loader like ROML (which attempts to map the disk BASIC roms out).

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Feb 3, 2018, at 1:14 PM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tried to SAVEM "LIGHT",1536,4017,1536.      But the coco doesn't want to save to disk.    I tried saving to my SDC, my HARD Drive, and my Physical floppy
> 
> I set my MPI to slot 4(physical disk) and CLOADM the program. When I SAVEM the program it turns  the drive motor of DRIVE 1on  but does nothing else
> 
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> After you CLOADM, you can get start,end & exec addresses using peeks:
> Start address: ?PEEK(487)*256+PEEK(488)
> Exec address: ?PEEK(157)*256+PEEK(158)
> End address: ?PEEK(126)*256+PEEK(127)
> 
> (Hope I am remembering those right).
> 
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
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> 
> 
>> On Feb 3, 2018, at 5:12 AM, Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Somewhere in The Rainbow magazine there is a program that locates those addresses and SAVEMs to disk. Those addresses have specific locations that can be polled for the answer too. However the possibility exists that the cassette software locates it's self in a location incompatible with Disk Basic.
>> Bruce W.
>> 
>> 
>> On 02/03/2018 12:27 AM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
>>> Hi. Just noticed that the software for the coco1 (grey controller) can be used with the white controller and the coco3 to turn plug n power modules on and off
>>> Only problem is that the software is currently on tape. I need some of you smarter people to help me CLOADM then SAVEM the HOA program. I don't know the START, END, EXEC to SAVEM to disk
>>> Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.
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