21 Nov
2014
21 Nov
'14
7:25 a.m.
On 11/20/14 11:10 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
TTFN - Guy
On 2014-Nov-20, at 10:40 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
I have the binary tape image for HP BASIC somewhere other than in the core of my
HP2116. The source is up on bitsavers scanned (and OCR'd) from a listing that I have
had since 1971. Indeed, that's the source we're working from (we spoke of
this on the list a few weeks ago).
I've actually extracted (an almost complete) machine code / binary image from the
assembly output listings you provided on bitsavers, but it's more interesting to
fulfil a complete assembly from the source, so we're waiting for that before trying to
load & run.
I have a cross assembler for the 21xx written in 'C' (I
didn't write it)
but I don't recall where I got it from. :-( It produces an absolute
binary image that is suitable for loading using the binary loader.
There should be the BASIC tape images on bitsavers.
With the configuration I have (assume I can get 32K
words of core, and have the I/O cards
I listed) what can I run on it?
Aside from blinkenlight programs, in the
not-to-distant future there should be a stand-alone version of HP BASIC available. A
friend and I are working on assembling it from source. (There are probably old binaries
out there somewhere but I haven't obtained one).
A bunch of tape images for HP stuff is up on
bitsavers (http://bitsavers.org/bits/HP/HP_1000_software_collection). I also came into a
fair number of HP paper tapes but I haven't yet had the time to check them against
what's on bitsavers to see if I have anything that isn't already there.
..
always be interested to hear if there's more period 2116 software, although I'm a
little limited as my 2116 currently has only 8KW memory.