I wanted to exercise my Dazzler and since I don't have
joysticks yet, I wanted a non-interactive program. I
looked around on the net and, while I found lots of
references to it, I had a very hard time finding the
kaleidoscope program itself. I finally found a paper
tape image of it in a zip file on Dave Dunfield's web
pages. There is a warning that there may be errors in
these images so I disassembled the program to see where
it should go in memory and whether it looked OK in
general. The result is here:
http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/kscope_dis.txt
I don't claim to exactly understand how it works, but
it looked OK so I loaded it up and it works. So that I
could easily load it up under Cromemco RDOS, I relocated
it to 0x3000 and made a file that you can push straight
into RDOS with a terminal program that supports "transfer
text to host". That file is here:
http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/kscope_rdos.txt
If you want to see the display that Stan Veit says stopped
traffic in Manhattan, you can load it up under Richard Cini's
Altair emulator with Dazzler support.
Bill Sudbrink