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 <mmcgra...@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@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@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 <billdeg...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 4:46 AM AJ Palmgren via cctalk < >> > > cctalk@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/ >> > >> >
