[Coco] Anyone tried this disk?

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Fri Apr 2 16:50:58 EDT 2021


Come to think of it, maybe the version that the question was raised about
didn't work because there was a Basic loader program (not in the original
version, perhaps) that this version required to be run in order to have it
boot up correctly?

Art

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 2:24 PM Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> My recollection is that UNPATCHED Edtasm will work in 80 columns when
> started from an 80-column screen, but there's some trivial response to its
> first prompt that must be typed in blindly (or a line added to a Basic
> loader program that does the equivalent) in order to get it going.
>
> Art
>
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 8:49 AM Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>
>> There is a "patched" version of EDTASM in the colorcomputerarchive disk
>> section that claims to be patched to use 40 or 80 column screens. The disk
>> is called EDTASM80.DSK.I have tried it and it still uses a 32 column screen
>> and does not do anything if you start from a 40 or 80 column screen.
>> Has anyone tried this zip package and if so, what were the results?
>> Robert
>>
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