Hello, all:
Just a quick announcement. Today was the official release of version 2.1 of
the Altair32 Emulator. Yeah!
It's been about four months since the 2.0 release and a lot has happened
since then. Floppy disk images for CP/M, Altair DOS and Disk BASIC are fully
functional and the Altair32 now has an integrated debugger, courtesy of Jim
Battle's Sol-20 emulation project. These two items alone took over half of
the time between releases and integrating the debugger required a major
overhaul of the 8080 emulation code.
On the negative side, a small regression error has crept in and 4k BASIC
will no longer run. This is not so bad because if you could run 8k BASIC
there's no reason to run 4k BASIC.
The next phase of the project will hopefully include some or all of the
following:
Continued code cleanup; minor fixes to IMSAI conditional
Further testing of the debugger (it's been only lightly tested with the
Altair32)
A set of Windows-based tools to manipulate diskette images (to enable people
to download programs from
http://www.retroarchive.org and get them onto
diskettes)
Support for BBS software
Support for different floppy controllers/disk formats and maybe a
pseudo-floppy hard drive.
That's it for now. As always, you can check out the project at:
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/Altair32.htm
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site:
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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Received on Sat Dec 15 2001 - 21:46:56 GMT