ferris@tcville.HAC.COM (11/07/90)
Having seen the Chip8 programs out on the net so far, I am interested in trying my hand at writing and posting some of my own. However, after touring the various HP48 ftp sites, I have come up blank on info regarding an assembler for Chip8 source code, although the macro files that came out a while ago imply a program named M80 (L80?), which doesn't sound familiar. So, where might I find such a program? I need something that will run either on a Unix machine (Sun) or a Mac. Thanks for any info, Mark Ferris smart: ferris@tcville.edsg.hac.com Image and Signal Processing Lab dumb: ferris%tcville@hac2arpa.hac.com Hughes Aircraft Co., EDSG uucp: hacgate!tcville!ferris
bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble) (11/07/90)
In article <11632@hacgate.UUCP> ferris@tcville.HAC.COM () writes: > >Having seen the Chip8 programs out on the net so far, I am interested >in trying my hand at writing and posting some of my own. However, >after touring the various HP48 ftp sites, I have come up blank on info >regarding an assembler for Chip8 source code, although the macro files >that came out a while ago imply a program named M80 (L80?), which >doesn't sound familiar. > >So, where might I find such a program? I need something that will >run either on a Unix machine (Sun) or a Mac. > >Thanks for any info, After two of these inquiries in two days, I think chip48 qualifies as a FAQ topic. Chip48 is an hp48 machine-language program written be Andreas Gustafson (forgive spelling errors). It is an interpreter for chip8, a game language used on small systems in the 1970's. To run posted chip8 games (syzygy, etc.) you need both the game and chip48 on your 48. The game by itself is a nonsense string, and there is no way to 'compile' it to an executable. Although I missed the macro postings, I understand that they take the chip8 mnemonics and create the (still non-executable) string object that is the game. Any volunteers to write a FAQ posting (or do I remember seeing one no too long ago?) >Mark Ferris ***************************************************************************** ** Bill Gribble Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA ** ** bgribble@jarthur.claremont.edu Never heard of it? You're stupid. ** *****************************************************************************
slsw2@cc.usu.edu (11/08/90)
In article <11632@hacgate.UUCP>, ferris@tcville.HAC.COM writes: > Having seen the Chip8 programs out on the net so far, I am interested > in trying my hand at writing and posting some of my own. However, > after touring the various HP48 ftp sites, I have come up blank on info > regarding an assembler for Chip8 source code, although the macro files > that came out a while ago imply a program named M80 (L80?), which > doesn't sound familiar. M80 and L80 are Microsoft's old CP/M assembler and linker. Since I do most of my work with CP/M (my favorite), I wrote my macro package for M80 and L80. -- =============================================================================== Roger Ivie 35 S 300 W Logan, Ut. 84321 (801) 752-8633 ===============================================================================
davisp@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis) (11/08/90)
In article <11632@hacgate.UUCP> ferris@tcville.HAC.COM () writes: > >...after touring the various HP48 ftp sites, I have come up blank on info >regarding an assembler for Chip8 source code, although the macro files >that came out a while ago imply a program named M80 (L80?), which >doesn't sound familiar. > >So, where might I find such a program? I need something that will >run either on a Unix machine (Sun) or a Mac. > I'm currently working on one; it'll be about two weeks before I have enough free time to finish it and get a serial cable so I can test it. I'll post it here when I'm finished. -- PTD -- -- Palmer T. Davis | davisp@scl.cwru.edu -OR- ptd2@po.cwru.edu Case Western Reserve University | {att,sun,decvax,uunet}!cwjcc!skybridge!davisp ------------------------------------------------------+------------------------ Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account. | Life is short.