SCELBI/8008 Digital Group Video Software available for download

[mwillegal]

I've put up on my website a new MCMON (a tiny 256 byte monitor for the 8008) that supports SCELBI keyboard interface input and Digital Group Video card out.

I also have a port of SCELBI hangman with the same drivers embedded with it.

Links to webpages with downloads follow:
http://www.willegal.net/scelbi/MCMON.html
http://www.willegal.net/scelbi/apps8008.html


Have fun,
Mike Willegal

 

[8008guy]

Thanks for the new sw Mike!

 

[pbirkel@gmail.com]

Alas, it looks like the AS8 assembler is no longer available online? http://compusaur.com/Mark8files/as8.html is gone, and while IA has a copy of that page the page doesn't include a reference to the AS8 software. Thus far I haven't had any luck finding a copy with web search :-<. Perhaps Mike could add a copy of the software on his site?

 

[tejones777]

That AS8 assembler for the 8008 was my doing many years ago. My goal was the most simple assembler that could assemble the Scelbi Basic (SCELBAL) assembly code, and allow anyone to modify it, and maybe put most of it in ROM. I was playing around with my reproduction Mark-8 computer, and liked how it could mimic the timing of a rs-232 serial port just by turning on and off a single digital output and input line. I got it working pretty well with a teletype program. It seemed to compile SCELBAL pretty well. I had some fun with it.

Somehow my compusaur.com site stopped working. I may resurrect it someday when I have time, but it was never finished (life gets in the way of fun.) I hate when important historical information archives die.

I can't recall a lot of the details of the as8 assembler, but anyone can use and modify it it for any use, just please keep the source code available, and attribution to the various contributors. I think the source code comments give such permission to copy and use in any way, but if not, this is anyone's permission to use it for any purpose without worry.

A copy of it is currently here, and many other places... https://www.pestingers.net/pdfs/other-computers/mark-8/software/as8.zip

- Thomas E. Jones

 

[pbirkel@gmail.com]

Thomas: Thank you for developing this capability, sharing the back-story, and pointing out where to find it these days :-}.

 

[GlueLogic]

Somehow my compusaur.com site stopped working. I may resurrect it someday when I have time, but it was never finished (life gets in the way of fun.) I hate when important historical information archives die.

Have you considered using GitHub? They let you host a site under [your username].github.io for free.