[Coco] Relocatable ROM monitor

[Arthur Flexser]

I might have been thinking of Sigmon from DataSoft, which almost certainly
was relocatable.  Might have been written by Steve Bjork.  In the archives
anywhere?

Art

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:34 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> Well, I'm not 100% certain it was relocatable.  But for the disk version,
> it would have been a convenience.  And it may have been planned from the
> outset that there would be other versions besides the rompack one.
>
> Art
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>
>> That’s interesting.  You wouldn’t ordinarily expect that a program
>> originally written to reside in ROM at a fixed location on a program pak
>> would have been written in relocatable code since that generally is a
>> little more complicated and the resulting binary is not quite as dense as
>> non-relocatable code.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> > On Oct 2, 2018, at 10:36 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > It may be the ZBUG, included with Disk Edtasm+ from Radio Shack, already
>> > handles everything you want.  I believe the Disk version of ZBUG
>> includes
>> > its own versions of CHROUT and POLCAT, though I'm not 100% sure about
>> > that.  It's probably in the archives here.  It has also been patched by
>> > third parties for 80-column output and some other niceties (Robert
>> Gault?)
>> > I'm pretty sure it is relocatable.
>> >
>> > Art
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:14 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Yes it is. Thanks you very much!
>> >>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 5:54 PM Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I got the monitor working on the CoCo.  It’s not relocatable and it
>> >> relies on POLCAT and CHROUT right now: https://youtu.be/dcT5mnyPtCw
>> >>>
>> >>> It’ll take me a little time to write a keyboard scan routine,
>> character
>> >> out routine, re-format for 32 columns, and re-write a few sections for
>> >> re-locatable code.  It allows you to view/edit memory locations, do a
>> dump
>> >> of memory from a specific address, and execute code at a specific
>> address.
>> >> Is that kind of what you want?
>> >>>
>> >>> Dave
>> >>>
>> >>>> On Oct 2, 2018, at 1:35 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 32.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:34 AM Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Yeah, that makes it a little more difficult since I'd have to write
>> >> the
>> >>>>> keyboard scan and text display routines from scratch.  They are
>> >> normally
>> >>>>> just a simply read/write to a UART.  What text mode do you plan on
>> >> using
>> >>>>> for the monitor (32,40,80)?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Dave
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> On 10/2/2018 1:19 PM, tim lindner wrote:
>> >>>>>> I love to see it. But it'll prolly also need adjusting to read the
>> >>>>>> CoCo keyboard and output to the CoCo video.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I'm looking for something that doesn't depend on POLCAT or CHROUT.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:16 AM Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>>>>> I have a monitor that I’ve used for years on embedded systems. It
>> >> probably wouldn’t be too tough to make sure it’s relocatable. It uses
>> a few
>> >> locations in direct page RAM though.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Dave
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> On Oct 2, 2018, at 10:16 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Does anyone know of a relocatable ROM monitor program for the
>> CoCo?
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Something I can load in to RAM arbitrarily and start peeking and
>> >>>>>>>> poking RAM, ROM and peripherals?
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
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