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Episode 12: Martin Haye has created a M0N5T3R
Drop III Inches
English - September 08, 2015 13:50 - 1 hour - 73.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this episode, we talk with Martin Haye about his experience writing an assembler/disassembler for the Apple /// as his HackFest entry at KansasFest 2015. Martin is an experienced Apple II programmer, who decided to spend KansasFest familiarizing himself with the Apple ///. After initial forays into SOS didn’t go well, and realizing that in … Continue reading Episode 12: Martin Haye has created a M0N5T3R →
On this episode, we talk with Martin Haye about his experience writing an assembler/disassembler for the Apple /// as his HackFest entry at KansasFest 2015. Martin is an experienced Apple II programmer, who decided to spend KansasFest familiarizing himself with the Apple ///. After initial forays into SOS didn’t go well, and realizing that in order to write assembly language programs on the Apple /// it would be useful to have a system monitor more like the one familiar from the Apple II, and a mini-assembler for 6502 code as well, Martin dug into the ROM code and wrote M0N5T3R, a small mini-assembler and disassembler for the Apple ///. And it boots instantly, too! Although it’s small, it was written in the space of a couple of days as part of the HackFest contest (and won second place!) at KansasFest. But he learned a lot from the experience, and we learned a lot from talking to him about it. Martin also gave us some first-hand descriptions of his trip to the Stanford archives of Apple documents (which we had discussed a bit in the previous episode). We also talk of one of the first e-books, written on an Apple /// and uploaded to The Source in real time, and an Apple /// found in the woods.
Some interesting links:
Martin’s video demo of M0N5T3R booting
DTCA3DOC-085 Apple /// boot ROM listing
DTCA3DOC-193 Inside the Apple /// Computer ROM
Archive guide to the Stanford collection
KansasFest
DSK file of M0N5T3R as of KansasFest 2015
Computerworld: “First all-electronic novel published” (Jan 31, 1983)
Burke Campbell: Prophesy to the Wind (blog post about e-book)
An elegant computer for a more civilized age (Ryan Powers found an Apple /// in the woods)