Anybody know where the software for the Cromemco Dazzler Games Package (Kalideoscope, Life, etc.) might be hiding? -J...
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Tom Lake
toml_12953
Dec 31, 2008 12:46 pm
You can get paper tape images here: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/Cromemco/paperTapes/ Tom Lake ===================== Posted through Grouply, the...
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John Crane
john_crane_59
Dec 31, 2008 5:35 pm
Thanks Tom! Â -John ... From: Tom Lake <tlake@...> Subject: Re: [Altair Computer Club] Dazzler Software? To: altaircomputerclub@yahoogroups.com Date:...
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Andrew Kessel
akessel
Jan 2, 2009 11:16 pm
Are those .ptp files standard binary files, that one can upload through a serial connection? ... -- Andrew Kessel...
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John Crane
john_crane_59
Jan 2, 2009 11:47 pm
Andrew,  Actually I haven't looked at them yet. I've got a hardware problem in my Dazzler and I'm waiting on some incoming parts. But it's my...
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oghull
Jan 3, 2009 12:27 am
... through a ... I have copies of the manuals for some of the Dazzler programs: Life, Dazzlemation, Kaleidoscope, Dazzlewriter, Dazzle-Writer 512, and Tic Tac...
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Dan Roganti
ragoo_sauce
Jan 3, 2009 3:42 am
... <akessel56@...> wrote: Are those .ptp files standard binary files, that one can upload through a serial connection? I have copies of the manuals for some...
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John Crane
john_crane_59
Jan 3, 2009 4:58 am
Looking at Kaleidoscope and ignoring initial nulls, I see:  31 00 01 3E 81 ....  And those do not translate to hex characters. They are:  1 null soh...
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oghull
Jan 3, 2009 5:15 am
... The Dazzler paper tapes I have are just binary images. There's no leadin/leadout bytes, no encoding, no checksum, nothing. I don't know why the .ptp...
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Andrew Kessel
akessel
Jan 3, 2009 11:42 pm
I use the mbl boot loader usually for binary. Though its been a while. I have a dazler, just never used it, so was curious. ... -- Andrew Kessel...
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mardy_marshall
Jan 5, 2009 10:51 pm
MITS appeared to have releases two different styles of documentation binders, seen here at Dave Dunfield's site: ...
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billdeg@...
billdeg
Jan 5, 2009 11:45 pm
Does anyone have a source for the MITS 1400 Calculator program chips?? I have been told that it feeds into the input chip to tell it when to transmit the...
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billdeg@...
billdeg
Jan 5, 2009 11:50 pm
I should clarify, *my* 1440 does not respond to input.? Careful study indicates that the signal on my calculator never goes active. ... From: billdeg@... ...
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Steve
alltare
Jan 6, 2009 5:52 am
Mardy- The blue on white "Altair Age" binder ( http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/altair/h/mits1.jpg <http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/altair/h/mits1.jpg> )...
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billdeg@...
billdeg
Jan 6, 2009 12:18 pm
Steve (all), How many different types of Altair puzzles were produced, same for Altair posters?? Are there any "cannonical lists" of this kind of stuff, like...
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Marden P. Marshall
mardy_marshall
Jan 6, 2009 1:12 pm
Steve, Thank you for the detailed accounting. I suspected that the "Altair Age" binder was the original one, since that is what you see the most of, although...
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Dan Roganti
ragoo_sauce
Jan 6, 2009 1:27 pm
Steve wrote: Mardy- The blue on white "Altair Age" binder ( http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/altair/h/mits1.jpg ) was used for all early Altair manuals,...
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Steve
alltare
Jan 7, 2009 12:42 am
Well, that picture would seem to prove me wrong. Even if the photo misrepresents what was really delivered to customers, it certainly shows that those "Altair...
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Marden P. Marshall
mardy_marshall
Jan 7, 2009 3:25 am
For what it's worth, the 8800 kit that I have, which was purchased in December of '75, came with the "Altair Age" style binder. The reason that I am...
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john_crane_59
Jan 11, 2009 8:26 am
... Well, the Dazzler is up and running! Kalideoscope is pretty amazing for 70's tech. I haven't managed to get Life to work though - just get one blue cell....
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Rich Whiteman
richwmn
Jan 11, 2009 11:31 pm
31 00 01 loads the stack pointer with what needs to be an area of ram to use for calls, returns, pushes and pops. It works from the loaded area downward. It...
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john_crane_59
Jan 12, 2009 2:18 am
Rich, You are correct for Kalideoscope, that was my initial post. I guess I wasn't too clear in my second post. I was talking about the game "Life". The...
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Derek J. Lassen
xl198cv56
Jan 12, 2009 2:33 am
IIRC, the hex file format had no transfer address, and assumed x'0000'. Many programmers put constants and jump tables at the beginning. So, we usually coded :...
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john_crane_59
Jan 12, 2009 5:22 pm
Good point, it could be a remnant from an assembly language template. The programmer just forgot to remove it, as this application does not have any data in...
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Craig Landrum
craig_o
Jan 12, 2009 5:39 pm
... Assuming you have 52 bytes available for a jump table, it is easy to support every character of the alphabet as commands. Subtract "A" from the character...
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john_crane_59
Jan 12, 2009 6:27 pm
... S, ... move ... appear ... holding ... the ... to ... from ... the ... the ... Just ... complex ... there ... That's the funny businesss I was considering...
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Steve
alltare
Jan 12, 2009 7:27 pm
There's a loaded 8800 on ebay at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220340089061 (item #220340089061). It closes tonight and there are no...
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D. Hugh Redelmeier
hughred
Jan 12, 2009 7:28 pm
... Interesting. Those low addresses are used for the interrupt jump vector but I guess most programs never used interrupts. I used the interrupt instructions...
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Jack Rubin
jack99rubin
Jan 12, 2009 9:32 pm
Sorry, can't help on the printer, though I certainly enjoyed the NEC Spinwriters. Just wondering if the rackmount was an offered option or if it was cobbled...
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oghull
Jan 12, 2009 10:20 pm
... He's been trying to sell it at that price for a while now, this is about the fourth time I've seen it. So far no one's been crazy^H^H^H^H^H interested...
