The Salora Manager and Laser 2001 roms only differ in version number, keyboard mapping table for funky characters and tape timings. Otherwise they are identical, and you can apply the tokens.s patch at offset $19F over the existing token name table. If you were going to change a real machine, I woul...

Attached is the Salora Manager ROM and token name listing amendment.

This is to enable using the functions which are in the BASIC rom within an emulator.

I have removed the redundant MUSIC and FLASH token names, as they do nothing, and added POP, DEF, FN and USR.

The Salora advert is strange, in that it just advertises creatiVision software.

Now we need to find a Laser 2001 advert!

Put the JOY back in Salora BASIC just needs a little bit of ASM to keep the BASIC engine happy. 10 FOR X = 0 TO 77 20 READ B 30 POKE 17408 + X,B 40 NEXT X 50 CALL 17408 60 PRINT PEEK (208) 70 GOTO 50 1000 DATA 72,138,72,162,3,169,0,149 1010 DATA 208,202,16,251,162,31,181,0 1020 DATA 157,192,3,202,16...

USR The USR function is also still there as a token (213). All it does is jump to ZP $0A. As in AppleSoft BASIC, the JMP vector defaults to the ILLEGAL QUANTITY ERROR text. 100 A=USR(100) Salora BASIC would be 100 A=SGN(100) then replace the SGN token with 213 ($D5) The difference between the CALL ...

DEF FN Again these exist as tokens only - so POKEing the program is the way to go! An example of the standard function 10 DEF FN A(W)=W*1000 20 PRINT FN A(10) When run, the result 10000 is displayed. So how is this achieved on Salora Manager BASIC? Step 1 Use SGN token as a place holder. 10 SGN SGN...

POP Applesoft had a useful function called POP, which essentially converts a GOSUB into a GOTO by removing the return address and continuing. So, how do you use it in a program? A little bit of jiggerry POKEerry is needed. 10 GOSUB 100 20 PRINT "RETURNED OK" 30 END 100 RETURN 110 PRINT "POP OK" 120...

Complete with red LED

Just need to age the case to be more used and abused, and stick on ebay as an attic find

The 6502 just jumps to the vector at $FFFC and executes from there. There are a couple of code areas at initialisation which could sit in a loop forever and they are tied to the PIA. For example, to silence the PSG, the logic is place byte on bus and wait for acknowledge. fe77 8d 02 10 STA DAT_1002 ...

Here's a super speed up for any code which has been tested and does not need user input - think mandlebrot et al. BASIC has a JMP vector at ZP $38. This usually points to a routine at $EDF8. This function polls the keyboard and flashes the cursor - but wastes a fair bit of time doing this. Here's th...