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2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
ADOS
ADOS
ADOS was developed by Art Flexser.
It came in three versions:
- ADOS for the CoCo 1 and 2
- ADOS 3 for the CoCo 3
- Extended ADOS 3 for the CoCo 3
It was 100% compatible with Disk BASIC if you didn't need to patch Disk BASIC itself, and added features, noteably 40 and 80 track drive support.
ADOS came on a disk, and could be loaded into the CoCo, or you could customize ADOS, program an EPROM, and use the EPROM as your disk ROM, therefore booting your CoCo with ADOS.
This was a neat, because many users then set their CoCos to boot with the 80 column screen.
It also ran the CoCo at double-speed, even during disk and printer I/O, featured auto line numbering, arrow scroll through listings, auto edit of errors, macros, etc.
Extended ADOS 3 added things like parellel printer output (assuming you had the right hardware), wildcard filenames, and a RAMdisk.
This was arguably the most popular modified Disk BASIC used with the CoCo.