Next Without For earl@retrobits.com (Earl Evans and Randy Kindig)

Randy and Earl explore programming of the CHIP-8 family of interpreters!
News! No news this episode! Z88DK, C compiler and assembler for 8080, Z80, 8085 https://z88dk.org/site/ CHIP-8 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8 Joseph Weisbecker: http://www.cosmacelf.com/history/joseph-weisbecker.html Joseph Weisbecker’s introduction of CHIP-8 in Byte Magazine, Dec. 1978 https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-12/page/n109/mode/1up  CHIP-8 Technical Reference: https://github.com/mattmikolay/chip-8/wiki/CHIP%E2%80%908-Technical-Reference IDE for creating CHIP-8 programs: https://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/ Writing programs for CHIP-8 using Octo IDE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-G6Dm5AX3I Awesome CHIP-8 - list of CHIP-8 resources https://chip-8.github.io/links/  CHIP-8 program archive https://github.com/JohnEarnest/chip8Archive  CHIP-8 Computer https://chip-8.com/  CHIP-8 Extensions and Compatibility https://chip-8.github.io/extensions/#a-note-on-modern-implementations  EZ-Pack: Convert large images into CHIP-8 Sprites https://beyondloom.com/tools/ezpack.html EZ-Writer: Compose text strings to fit a CHIP-8 or SCHIP display, with a variety of fonts https://beyondloom.com/tools/ezwriter.html EZ-Bake Animator: Pre-generate Octo-compatible graphics programmatically https://beyondloom.com/tools/ezbake.html C-Octo: Develop Octo programs from the command line https://github.com/JohnEarnest/c-octo For MacOS and Windows - Dorito https://github.com/lesharris/dorito?tab=readme-ov-file For Windows - CHIP-8 emulator on Github https://github.com/massung/CHIP-8/releases Octojam https://itch.io/jam/octojam-10 https://beyondloom.com/blog/octojam.html Emma 02 emulator https://www.emma02.hobby-site.com/index.html Can use RCA tab, COSMIC VIP option, for original CHIP-8 emulation

News! Atari BASIC AI training - https://discord.gg/WnEcxSvtS Nabu computer - https://nabu.ca/ More Contests! Amiga Jam - https://itch.io/jam/amigatooljam VisionBASIC Game Contest - http://visionbasic.fun/ AMSTRAD ASCII Compo - http://logiker.com/AMSCII-Compo BASIC implementations for iOS (iphone/iPad): BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - free - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bbcbasic/id6444498023 Commodore BASIC - Hand BASIC - CBM flavor by Ahmad Hawwash - free - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hand-basic-cbm-flavor/id394924289 Hotpaw BASIC (iPad) - $4.99 - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hotpaw-basic/id295464266 See: http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/basic/iphone/  for a more complete description of the Basic language syntax Smart BASIC (iOS/Mac) by Nikolay Denislamov $11.99 - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/basic-programming-language/id1540244170 BASIC implementations for Android "BASIC Programming Compiler" - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krazeapps.basicprogrammingcompiler BASIC implementations for MacOS: PC-BASIC - (Windows/Mac/Linux/Python) -  https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/ BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html PureBASIC - also Linux, Windows, RPi, AmigaOS 4 - https://www.purebasic.com/ Chipmunk BASIC - https://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/ BASIC implementations for Windows: Vintage BASIC - http://www.vintage-basic.net/download.html SpecBAS - https://github.com/ZXDunny/SpecBAS https://hackaday.com/2021/05/10/sinclair-basic-for-today/ SmallBASIC - https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/ QB64 - https://qb64.com/ - Windows, Linux, MacOS FreeBASIC - https://www.freebasic.net/ BASIC implementations for Linux: Matrix Brandy BASIC VI - http://brandy.matrixnetwork.co.uk/ Also check out this BBC BASIC reference -  http://www.riscos.com/support/developers/bbcbasic/index.html BASIC implementations for Web Browser: SPIDERBASIC - https://www.spiderbasic.com/ (Web/desktop) Applesoft BASIC in Javascript - https://inexorabletash.github.io/jsbasic/ Quite BASIC - http://www.quitebasic.com/prj/games/hangman/ Applesoft BASIC Editor CyanIIDE - https://paleotronic.com/applesoft/ wwwBASIC - https://github.com/google/wwwbasic https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/its-the-web-basically/

Randy and Earl continue the discussion of Assembly Language in this second episode of a two-parter. If you missed it, check out Show 009 for Part I!

In part I of this discussion on assembly language, Randy and Earl discuss what assembly language is, who invented it, how it works (generally), and why one might have chosen to use it back in the classic days of computing.
 

Randy interviews Michal Taszycki, owner of 64 Bites! And, we talk about some more contests.

Earl and Randy talk about various retro computer programming contests, where participants can show off their creations for platforms from back in the day!