I did a little Waterloo pascal, precious little documentation on this version of the language. Just to print something took hours to figure out. Bill On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 1:42 PM Micah Bly <micahbly_at_gmail.com> wrote: > I had a chance to play with a regular PET at last year’s VCF Midwest, and > it inspired me to dink around a bit with writing PET software. > Specifically, I tried to port my C128 game Lair of the Lich King (a > rogue-like) to PET, but alas, the 32k was simply not enough. I was able to > re-use some of the work done though, and ported it to the B128. > > Anyway, still interested in PETs, and was recently reading up on the > SuperPET, and wondered about: > 1) is anyone writing any software for the SuperPETs that use the 6809? Did > anyone except Waterloo? > 2) it looks like some (all?) of the Waterloo code has been disassembled > and can be recompiled. Before I get myself in too deep… is there anything > in there that would make it super hard to port to another 6809 platform? > > Reason I ask is Foenix retro just put a (replica/FPGA) 6809 _at_ 6.29Mhz that > is socket and electrically compatible with their (well, it’s a one-person > shop of course) 65C09 F256 computers. I have the bare board one (“jr”) now, > and am having tons of fun learning how to program it, and I have a K > (keyboard-in-one) on order. I am thinking about getting the 6809 and > putting it my JR when the K arrives. Obviously, absolutely no software > exists at the moment. (And as she makes clear, this is not going to be > compatible with anything hardware-wise): > https://c256foenix.com/product/fnx6809/?v=7516fd43adaa > > I am a total newb with 6809s and I know there are people waiting to start > working on OS-9, but I think it would be cool to have the SuperPET stuff > running on another computer. > > Anybody know if software was ported to SuperPET from other 6809 platforms? > Or from SuperPET? (Aside from OS-9) > > Micah > > >Received on 2023-01-03 20:07:39
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