NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! For the Color Computer 3 WITH Disk Extended Color Basic Version 1.1 ONLY! NOT compatible with Disk Basic 1.0, ADOS or any other DOS * SUPER COCO-3 Command & Function Enhancements * * COPYRIGHT (C) 1986, 1987 by Roger A. Krupski * TO USE: Just LOADM"NEWCMD.BIN" The "OK" prompt will be replaced with "READY" to show that NEWCMD.BIN is installed. NEW COMMANDS & FUNCTIONS ADDED: FAST Sets COCO at 1.78 mHz clock. SLOW Sets COCO at 0.89 mHz clock. OLD Restores a BASIC program erased with NEW COLD Re-starts the machine (Cold start) FIRST Returns the RAM address of the BEGINNING of a BASIC program in DECIMAL. Typical usage: PRINT FIRST or X=FIRST LAST Returns the RAM address of the ENDING of a BASIC program in DECIMAL. FIRST$ Same as FIRST, but returns the BEGINNING of a BASIC program in HEX as a STRING Typical usage: PRINT FIRST$ or X$=FIRST$ LAST$ Same as LAST, but returns the ENDING of a BASIC program in HEX as a STRING LOWER ON Sets Upper/Lower case mode. Commands entered in Lower Case WILL be accepted. LOWER OFF Sets All Upper Case Mode (Shift Locked) LIST"FILENAME.EXT:DRV" Will send the contents of ANY file to the screen for viewing. SHIFT-@ starts and stops the listing. LLIST"FILENAME.EXT:DRV" Same as LIST, but sends file to the printer. Useful for printing text files without the need to OPEN, INPUT, CLOSE etc. LIST"FILENAME.EXT:DRV",I Returns the START, END and EXEC address of any BINARY file. An OFFSET may be added to the command line to show where a binary program WOULD load. Typical usage is: LIST"FILENAME.EXT:DRV",I,&H1000 SCREEN # fg,bg Sets an 80 column screen with the colors specified by fg (foreground) and bg (background). Typical usage is: SCREEN#63,0 (63=white fg, 0=black bg) PCLEAR 0 to PCLEAR 18 PCLEAR now accepts values from 0 to 18 and is used to allocate memory as eeded. NOTE! CARE must be used since PCLEAR 0 causes BASIC programs to start at $E00. Any graphics commands such as PCLS will ERASE the program!a LAST NOTES: Many of the BUGS that are in a normal COCO-3 have also been fixed (patched). One of the more noticable fixes is that HSCREEN no longer clears the Hi-Res screen so that a previously drawn picture may be viewed. Programs written using the HSCREEN command will now have to be followed by the HCLS command if you wish to start with a cleared screen. The new commands and functions WILL be lost if RESET is pressed. They may be restored by LOADM'ing the NEWCMD.BIN file again. There is NO NEED to type EXEC after loading. The program is self booting. Typing "EXEC" will simply cause a ?FC ERROR.