Ancient 6502 FOCAL source code

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Sep 27 01:55:16 2001

Well, you're in luck, as Larry Fish, one of the founding members of the still
barely surviving Denver Area 6502 Users' Group wrote a history in which he does,
to some extent, tell the tale, naming names and spelling out events. That's
accessible at www.6502group.org. It's not "up" at this moment, so I don't have
the exact URL, but when the site's up, the history is readily available. The
"group" lives on in that some of the guys still get together once a week, come
hell or high water, at the Colorado School of Mines Computing Center, and BS
about various things, though 6502's seldom get a mention unless I show up, which
I do every few years. The group is more interested in PIC's and PC's these
days, and the main hobby is Windows-bashing, since Windows doesn't tolerate the
sort of hands-on use to which Micro users of old are accustomed.

I'm trying to get file space made avaialble (there was initially a plan to
provide one) on the group's web site, so I/we/they can put the rest of the 6502
group software out there where various interested parties can get at it. I also
have (somewhere) manuals for the PAL65 assembler, FOCAL, a full-screen editor
called Mr.Ed, and the XPL0 compiler, though Loren Blaney probably has more
current information on that, since he's been maintaining it over the years.

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Peschel" <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: Ancient 6502 FOCAL source code


> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:23:45PM -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > I've got the machine readable FOCAL source file available now. It's in 6502
> > Assembly Language, PAL65 syntax, which will make DEC-users comfortable and
the
> > rest of us cringe, but that's what available. I've been unable to find the
> > FOCAL manual, which I incorporated into my last assembly of the code, hence
> > believe it's on a different diskette from which I last assembled the thing
in
> > '81-'82 or so, as a printer exercise, actually.
>
> I'm sure we would all enjoy hearing the history of this software (APEX,
> PAL65, XPL0, FOCAL, etc.) and of the people and computers involved.
>
> -- Derek
>
>
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