EDTASM+ for the Dragon 32/64

[zephyr]

Attached below is Radio Shack's EDTASM+ which has been converted for use on the Dragon 32/64 by Stephen J. Woolham. A copy of the original EDTASM+ manual is included.

The most powerful assembler ever written for the CoCo 1/2 is now available for the Dragon.

[pser1]

Thanks a lot to Stephen and to you for this great work.
Do you know if there is any chance to upgrade this converted EDTASM+ to 63x09?
I mean if the EDTASM6309 patch by Robert Gault could be of use in a Dragon machine (EDTASM++)
thanks in advance
pere

[zephyr]

The 6309 patch is for the disk version of EDTASM+. I don't know if it would be compatible with this version. This is a question that only Robert may be able to answer.

Even if the patch is directly (or indirectly) compatible with this version, you would need to buy a copy of the patch from Robert, and patch it yourself. The patched 6309 compatible version of EDTASM+ can't legally be distributed.

[pser1]

thanks for this advice,
I didn't know that this patch were still available from Robert.
I own the CoCo EDTASM+ cartridge, that I think is mandatory to legally apply the 6309 patch.
By now I am reading the manual and making the recommended practices to learn how to work with it.
It's very good, but working whith tape files is only acceptable in XRoar, in a real Dragon would be painful.
I think that there exists "Disk EDTASM" that should solve this drawback.
DskDream, by now, keeps being my preferred choice on a Dragon.
pere

[zephyr]

I own the CoCo EDTASM+ cartridge, that I think is mandatory to legally apply the 6309 patch.

No. It has to be the original disk version.

REQUIREMENTS

YOU MUST ALREADY OWN TANDY'S DISK EDTASM TO MAKE USE OF THIS ENHANCED VERSION.
!!!!! PROGRAM WILL NOT WORK WITH ROMPAK VERSION !!!!!!

There is a PATCHER program on the product disk which will automatically convert your program for use. Selection of Coco 1&2 vrs. Coco3 version is automatic. Coco 1&2 versions do require 64K RAM, the Coco 3 version will work with 128K of RAM.

http://aaronwolfe.com/robert.gault/Coco ... sm6309.htm

It's very good, but working whith tape files is only acceptable in XRoar, in a real Dragon would be painful.

I don't mind waiting for the 30 seconds or less that it takes to load most source code from cassette. I dont even mind waiting for the 4 to 5 minutes that it takes to load some of the biggest games from cassette.

[zephyr]

The attached zip archive contains a quick start guide for EDTASM+.

[pser1]

thanks zephyr, it is a very nice options recopilation. Very easy to have at hand to search special options for some commands.
I have the original documentation, the one with the assembler explanation and all of the mnemonics detailed (for CoCo)
I have used it for a while and it is really as easy as is Dream.
Cannot see any functional differences between them, I can enter and edit source files, assemble, save, load and debug, tracing with as much as 8 beakpoints in both cases.
pere

[Alastair]

I don't mind waiting for the 30 seconds or less that it takes to load most source code from cassette. I dont even mind waiting for the 4 to 5 minutes that it takes to load some of the biggest games from cassette.

You're a masochist! When I wanted to play a quick game of something the ten minute loading time of Buzzard Bait due to that dongle always made me think twice about loading that game, so more often than not I would play something else. That dongle put me off copy protection for life: which I suppose is no bad thing .

[zephyr]

When I wanted to play a quick game of something the ten minute loading time of Buzzard Bait due to that dongle always made me think twice about loading that game, so more often than not I would play something else. That dongle put me off copy protection for life: which I suppose is no bad thing .

Waiting 10+ minutes for the dongle protected Buzzard Bait to load (or not) was a pleasure!

[zephyr]

Even that 10 minutes (cassette loading time slowed down by the dongle) for Buzzard Bait is very fast compared to the loading times of most Commodore 64 games. I remember waiting for up to 30 minutes for some games to load on my friend's C64.