Calling PDP8 / OS8 /basic gurus!

[Ron Hudson]

On Mar 5, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Stan Barr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ron Hudson said:
>> I am running OS8 on a pdp8 simulator in my iBook.
>
> Is this Bernhardt Baehr's excellent emulator?

Yes. Running under OSX.

>
>> I get the . prompt,
>>
>> I run BASIC, type in the single line
>>
>> 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
>>
>> RUN
>>
>> it prints out the header, then prints
>>
>> ME 10
>>
>> Well, it's a very simple BASIC statement, did I get
>> it wrong?  (or is the simulate broken?)
>>
>
> Can't help atm as my mac with the emulator on is hors de combat with a
> failed monitor - need a vga adaptor...
>
>> It's a nice simulator with a front panel-blinkenlights
>>
>
> Ah...must be Mr Baehr's  emulator :-)
>
>> Anyone know how to boot the PASCAL-S Disk?  The simulator has a menu
>> selection that
>> fat fingers in the RK8-E boot loader (strictly cheating I know.) but
>> once that is set
>> in motion nothing seems to happen.
>
>> From the docs:
> Halt the PDP-8
> Set memory size to 32K or more
> Go to the RK8-E window and mount the DECpak "Pascal-S disk" in drive 1
> Restart the PDP8
> Assign a logical name to drive 1 (not really necessary, but it saves
> typing later).  ie "ASSIGN RKA1: B:"
> Type "RUN B:PASCAL"  (seems like you've got this far already.)
> When the command prompt appears (an asterisk) type the name of a
> Pascal source file to run, such as "B:BENCH.PS" - this file is
> usually included with the emulator.
> The file will be compiled and run.
>
> A really great emulator, but I've not worked out how to load TSS-8
> on it yet!  It's worth getting an old Mac just to run it :-)
>
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com
>
> The future was never like this!
>
>