20 Dec
2018
20 Dec
'18
9:16 a.m.
Santo,
I finally got down to the TSC 6800 Assembler source file on your site :)
Lots of great information on 6800 to digest!
Thanks,
Monty
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 7:49 AM Monty McGraw <mmcgraw74 at gmail.com> wrote:
Santo,
What a treasure trove of 6800 information!
I just started looking at your site - although I haven't found the TSC
assembler source code file yet.
I could not read the code in your file "Article Introducing the 6800
Disassembler".
I found a much better scan of that article on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud197707, very readable and very useful!
I've been looking for 6800 programs to run on my Tektronix 4054A computer
- that although it has a bit-slice microprocessor, the microcode supports
the complete 6800 8-bit opcodes and adds 16-bit for floating point, 16-bit
registers and supports 16-bit address space with 128KB of memory, 64KB for
the BASIC ROMs and 64KB for RAM. It uses the 6800 SWI instruction in user
space assembly code programs in RAM to access ROM global entry points - so
I can't use 6800 programs that include SWI without changing that code.
Monty
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 5:06 AM Santo Nucifora via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi AJ,
I also have some TSC documentation here that you might find useful
including the TSC Assembler System 1.4 source code and the TSC
Disassembler
too.
http://vintagecomputer.ca/files/SWTPC/
Hope this helps.
Santo
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 3:21 AM AJ Palmgren via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
into
I am
Bill, thank you for this thoughtful response.
hand-punching is no small
thing. That is amazing dedication, and from what I know of you, I am
not
at all surprised...
Yes, it was absolutely an assembler for the 6800 processor.
Thanks for mentioning the cassette for the Altair, that would be super
retro-geeky cool to play with...but yes, this is an extremely busy
season
for most, if not all of us.
It looks like Monty McGraw might have come through with something, so
let's
check out his page suggestion.
Thank you!
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 3:44 AM Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 4:46 AM AJ Palmgren via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org wrote:
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> Would anyone here happen to have access to the original early 80s
binary
>> files to to run TSC Assembler?
>>
>> http://bit.ly/2rLsORe
>>
>> I'm looking for the vintage software that this document refers to:
TSC
>> Floating Point Package by Technical
Systems Consultants.
>>
>> I know there's a fair number of more modern assemblers that will
>> accomplish
>> essentially the same thing (LWASM, A09, etc), but I was curious to
see,
> and
> play with, the old-school version of this on one of my vintage
machines...
>
> Thanks, everyone!
> AJ
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
> AJ Palmgren
>
AJ .. I did not read the code to determine for myself but what is the
processor / instruction set that goes with the TSC assembler, 6800? I
once
> hand punched the entire TSC BASIC to a papertape so it could be read > an Altair 680 via Teletype. Given the date
on the assembler, and
their
BASIC, it
is very possible that at that time TSC sold an assembler for
the
6800 then. It should not take long to determine
what instruction set
your
> TSC doc pertains to. I might have it in cassette for the Altair but > kind of busy to archive it unless no one has
it otherwise. Busy time
of
the
year.
Bill
>
--
Thanks,
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