Re: Transfer 8050 disks (was: PET 2001 Fix)

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:12:16 -0500
Message-ID: <f4eb766f0911271012m2287070cx1f5be6048021e5fa@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/27/09, Per Olofsson <magervalp@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@sfks.se> wrote:
>> Surely a few earlier Commodore machines had some sort of built-in monitor,
>> at least the CBM-II series?
>
> The PETs have a built in monitor that is activated when you hit a BRK
> instruction., e.g. with SYS 1024. It's very basic though, and doesn't
> support (dis)assembly, like the +4 and C128.

BASIC 1 did not come with the "TIM" monitor - I started on a 4K PET at
our local main library, so when we got a 2001-32N (3032), I was very
surprised and pleased that TIM was in ROM.

It is quite simplistic - you can dump memory, alter memory (in hex),
load and save blocks of memory to tape (disk, too, AFAIK, but we
didn't own a floppy drive back then) and jump to a point in memory.

It's still lots better than nothing.

-ethan

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