Let's do the time warp again!

[dinowuff]

I found an old 8080 based pc and an (if you can believe it) 8" floppy disk I bought YEARS AGO! This is all I could retrieve from the disk. The program still works!

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        ORG     0100H         
        MVI     C,09H         
        LXI     D,MESSAGE       
        CALL    0005H           
        RET                   
MESSAGE:DB      0DH,0AH,'Hello, World!.,ODH,OAH,'$'
        END

[dinowuff]

btw I tried running this on my 64bit system and BOOM-CRASH-BANG!

[rapier57]

Yeah, you tried to address an 8-bit register that doesn't exist on the 64-bit CPU.

Or, Maybe it is malware!!!

I remember using those big floppies. They held about a meg of data.

[DaFoxx]

used to have a street map - pre google earth - view on a pack of the 5 1/2" floppies, and they WERE floppy, used to have the old 386 BEAST with the 5 1/2" reader in it
SO feckin OLD, yet remember checking it had 300 MB HDD and that was HUGE, performance would have been quicker on an abacas though

[SirDice]

It's CP/M code, not DOS. "CALL 0005H" is used to call BDOS CP/M functions. Old 8 bit MS-DOS code used the BIOS software interrupt "INT 21h" to call functions.

[rapier57]

I haven't played in CP/M for a -very- long time. Today, I can't tell the difference between CP/M and MS-DOS codes, as you can see.

Here's a gem, though. The Star Trek game; you know the one, where you start on a grid, move the ship to new coordinates, fight the Romulans or Klingons. All ASCI. The first one I every saw and messed with was on an eight-inch floppy, loaded into a CompuGraphic typesetting terminal back in 1977.

[SirDice]

I've never played with CP/M. I'm not THAT old

I have done quite a bit of 8 bit assembly but that was mostly on a 6809 and 6510 (Commodore 64). Most of the assembler I did was on the 68000 (Amiga; 32 bit). None of them used that 'weird' software interrupt mechanism to call functions that was used by MS-DOS and derivatives. But that's how I recognize ancient code, by the way libraries are called. Maybe I'll fire CP/M up on some emulator one day, just for posterity's sake

[chaosclown]

Wow! The only thing I recall about floppies is that I could fit like 4 games on them back then lol....

[SirDice]

If you feel nostalgic, http://www.schorn.ch/altair.html

CP/M 2.2 Operating system manual: http://gaby.de/cpm/manuals/archive/index.htm

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I>
I>TYPE HELLO.ASM
        ORG     0100H
        MVI     C,09H
        LXI     D,MESSAGE
        CALL    0005H
        RET
MESSAGE:DB      0DH,0AH,'HELLO WORLD!',0DH,0AH,'$'
        END

I>ASM HELLO
CP/M ASSEMBLER - VER 2.0
011A
000H USE FACTOR
END OF ASSEMBLY

I>DIR HELLO.*
I: HELLO    BAK : HELLO    ASM : HELLO    PRN : HELLO    HEX
I>TYPE HELLO.PRN


 0100                   ORG     0100H
 0100 0E09              MVI     C,09H
 0102 110901            LXI     D,MESSAGE
 0105 CD0500            CALL    0005H
 0108 C9                RET
 0109 0D0A48454CMESSAGE:DB      0DH,0AH,'HELLO WORLD!',0DH,0AH,'$'
 011A                   END

I>DDT HELLO.HEX
DDT VERS 2.2
NEXT  PC
011A 0000
-G100

HELLO WORLD!
*0000
-^C
I>


[SirDice]

Oh, the above emulator worked on Windows 7 64-bit. And if you want the Star Trek program: http://www.z80.eu/startrek/startrek.zip The cpm2 image I tried has MBASIC (yes, that's Microsoft Basic ) too so you should be able to get it running. MBASIC looks a lot like the BASIC found on the VIC-20 and later C-64. Not unsurprising as it was also written by Microsoft.

[Aspman]

According to wikipedia Marty McFly is due to arrive next year