Recently, I've embarked on building modern copies of microcomputer systems utilizing "the big three" micros avilable at the dawn of the personal computing era - namely, the 8008, the 8080, and the 6800. I wanted each to run a high level language. The only HLL I could find for an 8008 was SCELBAL, a BASIC-like language for the 8008 and 8080, written in 1975/76. It was never apperantly released except in book form; I have put in in computer readable form, and written an assembler for it (it uses somewhat old fashioned assembler syntax). In order to test it and to make it rommable, I needed to debug it, so I wrote a debugger/emulator for it, and one thing lead to another, and I wound up making a fairly fully-featured emulator/debugger for the 8008 complete with virtual UART, terminal, and the ability to output to a COM port (yeah, I could have done Telnet, but, hey, it's an 8008, fer goodness sakes...). Although the program was written in VB6 (when all's you got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail), some trickery permits 8008 code to execute approximately as fast as a real 8008 when the emulator is run on a PII-450. The COM port feature is nice because you can put SCELBAL to the com port, hook up a terminal at 300 baud to the back of the PC, and pretend you have an 8008. The code is in "kinda beta" form now, but it is quite usable; I may improve it if there is any interest. I think it is one of the only 8008 emulators available. It's at: ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/sloboyko It consists of a READ.ME (please read it), the ZIP (an installer), and a patch that consists of a newer EXE which should replace the one installed by the installer. Feel free to download it if you are interested, but if you're only mildly interested, please don't, because I don't have infinite bandwidth usage available on this account. Let me know what you think of it. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com