19 Dec
2006
19 Dec
'06
4:27 p.m.
Those interested in running Scelbal, the old Basic for the Scelbi-8 8008
based system, can download the following file :( windows executable, ca
6.5 M )
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/dreesen/I8008.zip
It is an emulation of a 8008 machine I might build, (Time
Permitting...), and comes with very a very terse help in the form of the
"scelbal.txt" file.
This tells you how to start Scelbal.
The emulator is rather crude, but was only intended as a proof of
concept. Some source code is provided.
Looking through the Scelbal source code really shows you how limited the
i8008 is. You need 8K to implement a Basic that is on a par with a 4K
TRS80 Basic... You are forever shuffling around pointers, incrementing
and decrementing them "by hand" .
Jos Dreesen