Hi Monty, Glad your found it useful. All of these documents were scanned from the documentation I have. That article was definitely a bad photocopy to start with but I'll leave it up and if anyone asks, I can point them to that July 77 issue of Kilobaud. Thanks for sending the link!
Santo On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:16 AM Monty McGraw <mmcgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >>> > >>> >>