RETROCHALLENGE 2011 - WINTER WARMUP

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Tron

Monday, January 31, 2011 10:17 pm (Pacific Standard Time)

I converted a start of a TRON game from Applesoft to Integer BASIC, but I've hit a wall. We're out of time.


Notes:

- DIM does not set the array values to zero. I think the values are whatever is in memory!
- Can't use V and V(I) as two different variables.
mmphosis$ telnet localhost 1977
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
>LIST^]telnet> toggle crmod
Will map carriage return on output.

    1 GOSUB 9: FOR Q=0 TO T STEP 0:C= PEEK (K): GOSUB 2: NEXT Q: END
    2 IF C>H THEN GOSUB 100
    3 FOR P=1 TO R: IF NOT F(P) THEN 110
    4 M=X(P)+D(P):W=Y(0)+E(P): IF M<0 OR M>39 OR W<0 OR W>39 THEN 120
    5 IF SCRN(X,Y) THEN 130
    6 COLOR=O(P): PLOT X(P),Y(P): COLOR=G: PLOT M,W:X(P)=M:Y(P)=W: NEXT P: RETURN
    9 LET T=1:K=-16384
   10 LET G=127:H=128
   11 LET S=-16368
   12 GR
   13 DIM D(4):D(1)=T
   14 DIM A(127): FOR I=0 TO 127:A(I)=0: NEXT I:A(17)=-T:A(81)=-T:A(113)=-T
   15 DIM U(4):U(1)=-T:U(2)=T:U(3)=0:U(4)=0: DIM V(4):V(1)=0:V(2)=0:V(3)=-T:V(4)=T
   16 DIM X(4):X(1)=20: DIM Y(4):Y(1)=20
   17 A(8)=1:A(21)=2:A(11)=3:A(10)=4
   18 P=2:G=15
   19 A(73)=3:A(74)=1:A(75)=4:A(76)=2: DIM Z(4):Z(2)=1:Z(3)=1:Z(4)=1:Z(1)=0
   20 B=-16336
   21 DIM O(4):O(1)=2:O(2)=1:O(3)=4:O(4)=3
   22 R=4:N=R
   23 DIM F(4):F(1)=1:F(2)=0:F(3)=0:F(4)=0
   24 DIM E(4):E(1)=0:E(2)=0:E(3)=0:E(4)=0
   99 RETURN
  100 J= PEEK (S):C=C-H:J=A(C):Q=J<0: IF J<1 THEN RETURN
  101 D(Z(J))=U(J):E(Z(J))=V(J): RETURN
  110 NEXT P: RETURN
  120 COLOR=1: PLOT X(P),Y(P):F(P)=0:N=N-1: NEXT P: RETURN
  130 COLOR=1: PLOT M,W:F(P)=0:N=N-1: NEXT P: RETURN

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Man

Saturday, January 29, 2011

The AUTO command works in Apple-1 BASIC, but the MAN command seems to be broken! :(
POKE 248,0 gets you out of AUTO mode.


I am using a new emulator called jace.

Notes

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

I've been busy hacking. I've written notes...

✓ make a program to make an EXEC program to run Apple-1 BASIC on APPLE-1 for Apple II.
✓ wrote this in Integer BASIC:

   10 DIM F$(30):F$="APPLE1.EX"
   20 DIM B$(30):B$="APPLE1 BASIC"

   30 D$="": REM CTRL D
   40 PRINT D$;"OPEN";F$
   50 PRINT D$;"WRITE";F$
   60 PRINT "CALL-151"
   70 PRINT "C081 C081 E000"
   80 PRINT "BLOAD";B$;",A$E000"
   90 PRINT "C081 C081 E003:";
  100 PRINT "EA EA EA EA EA ";
  110 PRINT "20 70 80"
  120 PRINT "C081 C081 E3D5:";
  130 PRINT "EA EA EA EA EA ";
  140 PRINT "20 EF FF"
  150 PRINT "C081 C081 E870:";
  160 PRINT "0 C0"
  170 PRINT "BRUN APPLE1"
  180 PRINT D$;"CLOSE";F$
  190 END 		✓ wrote this in Applesoft BASIC:

100 LET F$ = "APPLE1.EX"
110 LET B$ = "APPLE1 BASIC"

120 LET D$ = CHR$ (4)
130 PRINT D$"OPEN"F$
140 PRINT D$"WRITE"F$
150 PRINT "CALL-151"
160 PRINT "C081 C081 E000"
170 PRINT "BLOAD"B$",A$E000"
180 PRINT "C081 C081 E003:";
190 PRINT "EA EA EA EA EA ";
200 PRINT "20 70 80"
210 PRINT "C081 C081 E3D5:";
220 PRINT "EA EA EA EA EA ";
230 PRINT "20 EF FF"
240 PRINT "C081 C081 E870:";
250 PRINT "0 C0"
260 PRINT "BRUN APPLE1"
270 PRINT D$"CLOSE"F$

When I boot up AppleWin, I type EXEC APPLE1.EX which brings me to the Apple-1 monitor, from there I type E000R which cold starts Apple-1 BASIC. I press CTRL-Q to quit from APPLE-1 for Apple II. Sometimes when I boot up AppleWin, I want to use Apple II Integer BASIC. I wrote a little Applesoft BASIC program to load Integer BASIC into the 16K RAM (language card.)

10 A = - 16255
20 M = PEEK (A) + PEEK (A)
30 D$ = CHR$ (4)
40 PRINT D$"BLOAD INTEGER ROM"
50 PRINT D$"INT"
RUN INT gets me into Apple II Integer BASIC. From Apple II Integer BASIC, I can EXEC APPLE1.EX to get to the Apple-1 monitor. If I quit with CTRL-Q, and type CATALOG, after displaying the directory listing, a crash occurs 00CC- because the Apple-1 monitor and BASIC are now present in the language card.


Notes about some of the Apple 1 BASIC commands: Notes about Apple II Integer BASIC: Apple-1 BASIC and Integer BASIC IF statement work a bit differently than Applesoft BASIC IF. Only the first statement within the IF-THEN statement is run. Any statements on the same line always run which is different from Applesoft.
IF condition THEN doThisOnlyIfConditionTrue : alwaysDoThis
Miscellaneous:

I posted the Applesoft BASIC program HELLO WORLD-GRAPHICS on rosettacode.org.

The PALEOFERROSAURUS.COM program was written by paleoferrosaurus on January 2, 2011 at 11:40.

a little less talk
a little more hack action

Games

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

I've been playing some very retro Apple 1 BASIC games.


I found these Apple 1 BASIC Games at brielcomputers.com

V is for Verify

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

I wrote a program to read in the Apple 1 BASIC Disassembly and poke the bytes into memory. Of course, the program is written in apple 1 BASIC. I disabled Apple 1 BASIC's ability to stop the program with the keyboard so that my program would run to completion.

100 DIM H$(16),T$(255):A=8192
110 H$="0123456789ABCDEF"

200 INPUT T$:L=LEN(T$)
210 IF L = 0 THEN 200
215 F = 0
220 FOR I = 1 TO L
230 IF F = 0 THEN IF T$(I,I) = "." THEN F=I
240 NEXT I
245 IF F = 0 THEN 270
250 F = F + 7 : S = 4
260 IF L > F THEN IF T$(F-7,F-3) = ".BYTE" THEN 280
270 F = 7 : S = 3
275 IF L > 14 THEN L = 14
280 GOSUB 300
290 PRINT : GOTO 200

300 PRINT A;"- "; : G = 0
310 FOR I = F TO L STEP S
320 A$ = T$(I,I)
330 IF A$ = " " THEN G = 1
340 IF G THEN 380
350 GOSUB 400 : B = V
360 A$ = T$(I + 1, I + 1): GOSUB 400
370 POKE A, B * 16 + V : A = A + 1
371 PRINT " ";
375 IF T$(I + 3, I + 3) = ";" THEN G = 1
380 NEXT I 
390 RETURN

400 V = -1
410 FOR J = 1 TO 16
420 IF A$=H$(J,J) THEN V=J-1
430 NEXT J
440 IF V >= 0 THEN RETURN

500 FOR K=2 TO I:PRINT " ";:NEXT K
510 PRINT "^"
520 PRINT A$
600 END

After running the program, I quit out of APPLE-1 for Apple II. From the Apple II monitor, you can compare ranges of memory using the V command. Here is what is different between the apple1 BASIC from pagetable.com, and the disassembled apple1 BASIC:

*2000<E000.EFFFV

EE53-8A (EA)
EE54-A2 (46)
EE55-01 (F8)
EE56-B4 (60)
EE57-CE (20)
EE58-94 (34)
EE59-4C (EE)
EE5A-B4 (C9)
EE5B-48 (18)
EE5C-94 (B0)
EE5D-CA (0A)
EE5E-CA (85)
EE5F-F0 (25)
EE60-F5 (60)
EE61-AA (EA)
EE62-60 (EA)
EEA6-A5 (20)
EEA7-4C (34)
EEA8-D0 (EE)
EEA9-02 (C5)
EEAA-C6 (C8)
EEAB-4D (90)
EEAC-C6 (BB)
EEAD-4C (85)
EEAF-48 (4D)
EEB0-D0 (48)
EEB1-02 (A5)
EEB2-C6 (4C)
EEB3-49 (20)
EEB4-C6 (08)
EEB5-48 (E7)
EEB6-A0 (68)
EEB7-00 (95)
EEB8-B1 (A0)
EEB9-4C (60)
EEBA-91 (A5)
EEBB-48 (4B)
EEBC-A5 (48)
EEBD-CA (A5)
EEBE-C5 (4A)
EEC0-A5 (B3)
EEC1-CB (EF)
EEC2-E5 (A5)
EEC3-4D (85)
EEC4-90 (2D)
EEC5-E0 (60)
EEC6-4C (20)
EEC7-53 (34)
EF86-4C (4A)
EF8A-4D (4B)
EF8C-1F (1E)
EF8E-48 (4C)
EF92-49 (4D)
EF94-B6 (AD)
EF95-EE (E5)
EF9C-CA (4C)
EFA0-CB (4D)
EFA2-09 (08)
EFA9-4C (90)
EFAA-B7 (E8)
EFAB-E5 (4C)
EFAC-4C (CB)
EFAD-CB (EE)
EFAE-EE (A5)
EFAF-EA (4D)
EFB0-EA (48)
EFB1-EA (A5)
EFB2-EA (4C)

I've since found another disassembly of Apple 1 BASIC: AP1BASIC.txt

Getting busy

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

My intention is to look into Integer BASIC, and more specifically Apple 1 BASIC.  This evening I got Apple-1 Basic running.

Some patches are required to make Apple 1 programs run using my APPLE-1 for Apple II program.  It needs patches because it's not running on an Apple 1, it's running on an Apple II.

Patches:

E003:EA EA EA EA EA 20 70 80
E3D5:EA EA EA EA EA 20 EF FF
E870:00 C0

Links:

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