2 Jan
2006
2 Jan
'06
5:39 p.m.
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:
Speaking of 6502s, I happen to have a whole bunch of
those, and some 6510s,
and 6522s and 6526s, and perhaps even some 6551 (?) UARTs too. Anybody have
anything particularly nifty that these would be good for? I kinda like Garth
Wilson's workbench computer, and definitely don't want to go the route that
some have gone (found on the web) where multiple floppy drives and writing a
bloody dos for it and all that sort of thing get involved. Anybody know of
some simple monitor-type software that's out there?
How adaptable is the KIM-1 monitor? IIRC it had both the keypad and
a TTY mode where it would use the UART. I used KIM-1's but never got too
much into poking around everything the monitor could do/did do.
There was also the Apple II monitor with its built-in disassembler
(and miniassembler with the right INTBASIC toolkit ROM, right?) It'll have
a lot of hooks into the Apple II video range but if those are somehow
rip-outable then it might be a start (worse comes to worse, you know that
you can use the PR# and IN# hooks for character in and out). And
also in the toolkit ROM was SWEET-16... Wow, going back a couple
of decades, that was fun back then!
Tim.