Hi Bill,
Any chance of your making binary copies of your
working disks available? That would be a boon to the
rest of us OSI owners.
Dave
--- Bill Sudbrink <wh.sudbrink at verizon.net> wrote:
Well, since my C4P-MF has been rock solid stable
since I
fitted the new power supply and cleaned the drive
head,
I've been going through a bunch of 25 (and more)
year old
diskettes to see just what I have.
Lo-and-behold!
On a diskette simply labeled OS65D 3.2 (not
originally mine,
acquired I don't know where), I found really nice
machine
code implementations of Space Invaders and
Asteroids! You
don't usually see machine code programs on OSI
diskettes, the
OS was too crude to have a simple binary loader.
Diskettes
usually have BASIC programs, with maybe a couple of
USR$
sub-routines in data statements. To load and
execute the
programs, you have to EXIT from BASIC into the
sub-monitor and
then load the diskette tracks into memory one at a
time. Once
you have it loaded, then you GO to the starting
address. I
think that these programs might have been originally
intended
to be loaded from cassette tape. Fortunately, the
diskette had
two BASIC programs, each of which PRINTs the
instructions for
loading the machine code programs. I'm really happy
about this!
People usually see OSI boxes running rather slow
interpreted
BASIC programs. These two programs show just what
an OSI box
can do. There is no attribution for the Asteroids
program, but
the Space Invaders is copyright 1980 by Michael
Kincaid.
Can't wait to show these at TCF!
Bill
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