TSC Assembler?

[Monty McGraw]

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:
>>
>> > 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
>> into
>> > > 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
>> I am
>> > > kind of busy to archive it unless no one has it otherwise.  Busy time
>> of
>> > > the year.
>> > >
>> > > Bill
>> > >
>> > >>
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > AJ Palmgren
>> > http://fb.me/SelmaTrainWreck
>> > http://SelmaTrainWreck.blogspot.com
>> > https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010931314283
>> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/aj-palmgren-4a085516/
>> >
>>
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