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Altair BASIC #232
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I assume that nobody has tried Altair BASIC yet. I wrote up more detailed installation instructions at http://w8bh.net/AltairBASIC.pdf Bruce. |
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Nove job on the document and port. |
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The guys from Paramount (new IMSAI company) asked about a port in S100 systems Google group. I pointed them to your repo, guess they are trying it. |
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I assume you meant "Parastream"? I'm one of the guys from the project; I started this journey with the founding of the "IMSAI 8080 Reproduction Project" nearly two years ago after acquiring an unbuilt NOS IMSAI 8080 kit. |
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Sorry that I messed up the name. Good to see you here, you might find lots of IMSAI resources here we collected over many years. |
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Altair Basic, written in 1975 by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff, led to the birth of Microsoft. Bill Gates published the source code in April. It thought it would be cool to port this epic and historic piece of code to the IMSAI 8080. Has anyone already done this?
Porting the code was harder than I expected. I am still tinkering with it. Please give it a try and let me know what does/does not work. It is amazing to see floating point and functions like SIN() and SQR() all packed into less than 4K of code.
Bruce.
Altair Basic source from Bill Gates: https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code
My port (with instructions): https://github.com/bhall66/IMSAI-8080/tree/main/Altair-Basic
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