ANNOUNCE--Altair32 version 2.1 released!

Hello, all: Just a quick announcement. Today was the official release of version 2.1 of the Altair32 Emulator. Yeah! It's been about four months since the 2.0 release and a lot has happened since then. Floppy disk images for CP/M, Altair DOS and Disk BASIC are fully functional and the Altair32 now has an integrated debugger, courtesy of Jim Battle's Sol-20 emulation project. These two items alone took over half of the time between releases and integrating the debugger required a major overhaul of the 8080 emulation code. On the negative side, a small regression error has crept in and 4k BASIC will no longer run. This is not so bad because if you could run 8k BASIC there's no reason to run 4k BASIC. The next phase of the project will hopefully include some or all of the following: Continued code cleanup; minor fixes to IMSAI conditional Further testing of the debugger (it's been only lightly tested with the Altair32) A set of Windows-based tools to manipulate diskette images (to enable people to download programs from http://www.retroarchive.org and get them onto diskettes) Support for BBS software Support for different floppy controllers/disk formats and maybe a pseudo-floppy hard drive. That's it for now. As always, you can check out the project at: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/Altair32.htm Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/