41778 8JUN88-2154 General Information
COCO 3 PATCH
From: NORLAM1 To: ALL
DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A PATCH FOR
THE PROGRAM “DISK UTILITY, VERSION 2.1
FOR THE COCO 3? I HAVE A FRIEND
WHO WON’T USE HIS COCO 3 TIL HE
FINDS A PATCH.
P.S. WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A PENPAL FROM
DENVER, CO.
THANX. NORLAM1
41791 9JUN88-0055 General Information
RE: COCO 3 PATCH (Re: Msg 41778)
From: MARTYGOODMAN To: NORLAM1
The current version of Disk Utility works on a CoCo 3. I personally
did the patch for it. (there is one flaw.. the LOAD command
no longer works properly… but that is minor).
Spectrum Projects before they left the CoCo market sold the CoCo 3
capable version. Microcom may now sell it.
I personally have no record of the patch I made, and do not
have the time to do it all over again. Anyway, the patch would
be difficult considering the fashion in which Disk Utility
was stored on the disk.
Any assembly language programmer can fix it, give about an hour
or two of time: All you need do is look for memory test code
that writes over $FE00 thru $FEFF. There are about 3 places
where the top limit of such operations has to changed… lowered
to $FDFF from $FEFF, or from $FF00 to$FE00… one or the other.
—marty
42148 17JUN88-1639 General Information
RE: COCO 3 PATCH (Re: Msg 41791)
From: NORLAM1 To: MARTYGOODMAN
THANKS, FOR THE MESSAGE, NOT VERY GOOD
AT PATCHING THINGS UP, BUT WILL
TAKE A LOOK.
THANKS AGAIN…