Calling PDP8 / OS8 /basic gurus!

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

Ron Hudson said:
> I am running OS8 on a pdp8 simulator in my iBook.

Is this Bernhardt Baehr's excellent emulator?

> 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

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