Re:
On Jun 5, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Richard wrote:
In article <29891C54-D49F-40A5-9C5A-1764B40AD620 at
allegro.com>,
Stan Sieler <ss at allegro.com> writes:
(Of course, later TinyBASIC was ported to the
HP2645A)
I'd like to hear more about this; is there a link online somewhere?
IIRC, Frank McConnell should have a copy. I thought I did, but it's
not online like I thought it was. I'll continue to look for it.
There were a number of games/programs ported to (or written for) the
HP 264x series of terminals. Many required having an extra memory
board (e.g., 64 KB of memory), and (IIRC) Tiny BASIC was one of those.
I remember loading Tiny BASIC from a cartridge tape into my "fat" HP 2645
and running BASIC. (And, it might have been my 2648 ... but I'm not
getting confused with the HP 2647 :)
Other games I recall: "Keep On Drivin'", and possible Pong or Centipede?,
and Space Invaders. (All were distributed on cartridge tape, most were
capable of being loaded via the serial port as well.)
Stan