Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:11:56 -0400
From: Douglas Quebbeman
Subject: RE: Sol Goodies
To: 'Jim Battle ' <frustum@pacbell.net>

Jim Battle wrote:
> Doug: 
> 
> First, do you recall where some of this came from?  Is it from your 
> own hand?  Entered from magazines?  Off of commercial tapes? 
> Any recollections would be useful for reconstructing history. 


Ok, here goes (as best as I can recall):

BINDUMP.ASM        I wrote this
CASSETT.ASM        I wrote this
COOK.ASM           Cook & Molnar's Memory Monitor III, from Kilobaud
CTEST.ASM          Surely I got this from Access or Solus News; if not,
                   it'a an adaptation of something from the IMSAI UCRI
                   package
EPROM.ASM          I wrote this to drive a 5204 burner I never finished
                   (circuit from Kilobaud, still have magazine)
FILL.ASM           I wrote this
HEX2.ASM           I wrote this, it's an alternate version of HEXDUMP.ASM
HEXDUMP.ASM        I wrote this, dumps RAM in Intel HEX format to serial
LOADER.ASM         I stole this from some IMSAI code
MEMTEST.ASM        Simple memory test, maybe IMSAI code, maybe SOLUS?
PSLOADER.ASM       Pretty Short [Intel HEX] Loader, I wrote this
SYMDUMP.ASM        Disassembler adapted from Joe Maguire's Proteus article
TERM.ASM           SOLOS TERMinal command, extracted to allow use with
                   VDMDRIVR.ASM (which allows display of control codes as
                   graphic chars from the decoder ROM)
VDMDRIVR.ASM       VDM/Sol Video driver hacked to allow display of control
                   characters
VDMSORT.ASM        I just now caught the joke with the name of the author
                   'Newett Awl'. Dang!

 
> Thanks for all the great code! 

Actually, more will be coming. I have a large package I wrote that 
started with the Microtec Self-Contained System (same code as PTC's
Software Package #1), added code from numerous sources, including
some I wrote. It allows in-memory assembly source, symbol table,
debugger w/breakpoints, can be assembled for SOLs or other 8080 
machines, can interface to an IMSAI UCRI casette interface, and on
and on. Also another quikie terminal emulator that acts like an
ADDS 980 except in 16 x 64 mode.

Somewhere, I had a loader that worked 4-bits at a time. We had a
Pascal program running on the CDC that broke up each 8-bit byte into
nybbles (had to do it that way since the CDC had a 6-bit byte)
and sent that to the targt machine, which ran a loader that reassembled
the nybbles back into 8-bit bytes.

Also, I have not yet found all of my SOL tapes. I have a work-in-progress
port of FORTH, FIG-FORTH probably. No telling what I'll find that I forgot
about.

ttys...   -doug q