etrmg@levels.sait.edu.au (09/10/90)
Hello: I am looking for a 6809 CoCo to PC (8086) code converter. Vice versa too. It is for a co-worker here at the Institute. I hear from him that a program "XENOCOPY" may be used for this. Can any one verify this? Or help us out? Thanks for any poop. Ronn
smcgee%albion.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Mcgee) (09/11/90)
In article <15384.26eb8258@levels.sait.edu.au> etrmg@levels.sait.edu.au writes: >Hello: > >I am looking for a 6809 CoCo to PC (8086) code converter. Vice versa too. >It is for a co-worker here at the Institute. I hear from him that a program >"XENOCOPY" may be used for this. Can any one verify this? Or help us out? >Thanks for any poop. > >Ronn Ronn, there are several program around that will copy a text file from a coco disk to a pc disk but that only helps with TEXT files. Due to the tremendous differences between 6809 and 8086 machine code (not to mention likely/possible hardware differences!) I don't think there is any way to write a program that will convert 6809 (binary) code to 8086 code. The only way to convert coco programs to pc programs is to take C or Basic source code, convert to the other disk format and attempt to recompile it. C shouldn't be TOO hard and simple Basic code can probably fiddled enought to get it to work, although, I wouldn't even bother with a big basic program unless you know both machines pretty well and peeks and pokes are totally non-compatible. If what you need is just to transfer text, however, then yes there are such programs. Scott Buttered bread always lands * Scott McGee butter side down! (Unless * email : smcgee%albion@cs.utah.edu it sticks to the ceiling!) * Would YOU mistake these opinions as anyone's but my own?