[Coco] Programs larger than 32K?

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 16:59:51 EST 2019


On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:26 PM Allen Huffman wrote:
> The Dragon 64 had a way to relocate the ROMs to give 40K to BASIC. I don’t know if KEY264 did something like that, or if anyone ever ported the Dragon trick to CoCo, but that would be useful.

The Dragon 64 has a second BASIC ROM, with the same code (except
bootstrap) assembled at origin $C000 instead of $8000. A pin on PIA1
switches between the ROMs. It should be possible to do the same with
the CoCo BASIC, and load the high BASIC from disk.

Tormod


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