24 May
2006
24 May
'06
6:03 a.m.
On 5/23/06, Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
You must have had it on a cartridge. The TIM monitor _did_ come in
ROM on the BASIC 2 and BASIC 4 PETs - I was so happy when I discovered
it on my 2001-32K (sold as a 3032 in Europe) - the instructions I had
included loading TIM off of tape, but they were the instructions for
BASIC 1 (8K static) PETs.
I wrote a Scott Adams game engine using TIM - I did all the work on
paper and typed it all
in, one subroutine at a time, in hex. Eventually, I got a nicer ML
monitor with a line-at-a-time assembler/disassembler. My productivity
soared!
I _wish_ the C-64 had come with a monitor, with or without an
assembler/disassembler. It was annoying to have stuff crash to the
blue screen when I forgot to load the monitor (or there wasn't room).
-ethan
Sure a machine code monitor would have been even
nicer, but...
Agreed. One of the dandiest features of puters like
the C64. But come to think of it maybe that was on a
separate cartridge. It's been a while...