Teaching kids about computers... (CoCo assembler)

At 18:28 -0600 11/28/07, Sean wrote: At 18:28 -0600 11/28/07, Mark M. wrote: I'd agree completely, *except* that if you want to do Assembly (conveniently), you also need the EDTASM+ ROM cartridge, and prices/availability for those seem to have gone a little wonky in the past 6 months. EBay prices yield systems for $5 to $10 (plus shipping), but the EDTASM cart is over $30. I have not found a non-eBay source that actually had a cart for sale at all. I don't quite have the knowledge to do it, but something I'd really like to see is a reverse-engineered equivalent (editor, assembler, monitor) implemented and available as an inexpensive cassette tape or downloadable sound file that could be played into the cassette port (or even, shudder, READ-DATA/POKE basic program to type in) and an accompanying public-domain manual. I know this would be vulnerable to getting overwritten by an out-of-control assembly program, and the ROM version is preferable, but it sure would turn a cheap, otherwise very capable BASIC platform into a cheap, very capable Assembly language platform that one occasionally had to re-load. I note that there are good emulators and cross-compilers available for both Mac OS-X and Windows: Toolshed for OS-X rocks: http://sourceforge.net/projects/toolshed/ David Keil's Windows emulator gets excellent reviews: http://www.discover-net.net/~dmkeil/index.htm no relation either way. -- - Mark, 210-379-4635 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Large Asteroids headed toward planets inhabited by beings that don't have technology adequate to stop them: Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.