[Coco] What was used before EDTASM+?

[edward jaquay]

I had this thing called sigmon that let me modify assembly code in memory.
I remember using to defeat the encryption on Zaxxon by adding a breakpoint
after the decrypt and then saving the result to disk.

On Tue, Aug 2, 2022, 4:50 PM Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> I have been working on a series of blog articles about the original CoCo
> OS-9 release in the 1984 Radio Shack catalogs. This was also the year a
> stock-64K model appeared to be “New for 1984”. (Was this really the first
> time Radio Shack sold a 64K CoCo?)
>
> 1984 was also when DISK EDTASM first appeared.
>
> The ROM-Pak EDTASM+ has a 1981 copyright, and shows up in the 1982 Radio
> Shack Computer Catalog (RSC-6). I don’t see it listed in the previous 1981
> edition.
>
> So what were folks using to write assembly in 1980-1982 before this came
> out? Hand assembly?
>
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