Cromemco software question

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Fri Oct 8 13:44:20 2004

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Cini, Richard wrote:

> Can anyone with Cromemco experience tell me what loader should be
> used to load this software into a machine? I don't recall seeing anything in
> the manual that revealed this secret.

Have you examined the data on the tape? Hex/ascii formats are easy to
decode, and binary ones are usually pretty trivial. They are almost always
something dumb like:

leader leader leader...

flag character or sequence
record type (1=data, 2=start addr, 0=stop, that sort of thing)
load address (2 bytes)
byte count (1, 2)
data....
checksum

more records...

ASCII vs. binary, even, would narrow your choices.
Received on Fri Oct 08 2004 - 13:44:20 BST