Re: SuperPET 6809 software - porting to other platforms

I did a little Waterloo pascal, precious little documentation on this
version of the language.  Just to print something took hours to figure out.
Bill

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 1:42 PM Micah Bly <micahbly_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I had a chance to play with a regular PET at last year’s VCF Midwest, and
> it inspired me to dink around a bit with writing PET software.
> Specifically, I tried to port my C128 game Lair of the Lich King (a
> rogue-like) to PET, but alas, the 32k was simply not enough. I was able to
> re-use some of the work done though, and ported it to the B128.
>
> Anyway, still interested in PETs, and was recently reading up on the
> SuperPET, and wondered about:
> 1) is anyone writing any software for the SuperPETs that use the 6809? Did
> anyone except Waterloo?
> 2) it looks like some (all?) of the Waterloo code has been disassembled
> and can be recompiled. Before I get myself in too deep… is there anything
> in there that would make it super hard to port to another 6809 platform?
>
> Reason I ask is Foenix retro just put a (replica/FPGA) 6809 _at_ 6.29Mhz that
> is socket and electrically compatible with their (well, it’s a one-person
> shop of course) 65C09 F256 computers. I have the bare board one (“jr”) now,
> and am having tons of fun learning how to program it, and I have a K
> (keyboard-in-one) on order. I am thinking about getting the 6809 and
> putting it my JR when the K arrives. Obviously, absolutely no software
> exists at the moment. (And as she makes clear, this is not going to be
> compatible with anything hardware-wise):
> https://c256foenix.com/product/fnx6809/?v=7516fd43adaa
>
> I am a total newb with 6809s and I know there are people waiting to start
> working on OS-9, but I think it would be cool to have the SuperPET stuff
> running on another computer.
>
> Anybody know if software was ported to SuperPET from other 6809 platforms?
> Or from SuperPET? (Aside from OS-9)
>
> Micah
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