8" floppy project

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Tue Aug 10 21:57:26 2004

Tony Duell wrote:

> Cheating a bit, but how about FIGforth? I believe it is truely public
> domain, and as it runs on the bare metal, it could be claimed to include
> the OS. I assume there was/is a version of the 8088.

Yes, but try and find it today. Fig forth is for the 8080 and 6502 with I/O
supplied by the user and ASM source. While I suspect you can get a
version for the 8088 I don't expect you can get the source for it.
Read keyboard, test keyboard ready, print to screen, read disk block,
write disk block I think is all that is needed.
Ben.
PS did the Jupiter Ace ever have floppy disk?
Received on Tue Aug 10 2004 - 21:57:26 BST