Hi everybody, I'm Luis, from Spain.
I got my Altair Clone few days ago, and I've been having so much fun with it.
I have some questions, there are some little things I still couldn't figure out. Don't worry, I'm sure they are going to be easy to answer, since they are coming from a completely newbie :)
1) When I use the 8KBASIC, it works great but there are some characters missing if I write a program and then list it. For example, yesterday I wrote a little program to calculate the factorial of any number:
5 I=0:N=0:Z=0
10 INPUT "NUMBER: ";N
20 FOR I=1 TO N
30 Z=Z(LOG(I)/LOG(10))
35 NEXT I
50 PRINT N;"!= ";10^(Z-INT(Z));" E ";INT(Z)
And here is what appears when I list again the program:
5 I0:N0:Z0
10 NPUT "NUMBER: ";N
20 OR I1 O N
30 ZZ(OG(I)OG(10))
35 EXT I
50 RINT N;"!= ";10(ZNT(Z));" E ";NT(Z)
As you can see, every first letter from every word is missing, together with some symbols like -,=,/... When I run it, it works perfectly, so I guess inside the Altair's memory the listing is OK. By the way, I just have this issue with the 8K BASIC (didn't try the 4K one). Both MBASIC under CP/M and Disk BASIC run perfectly.
2) How do I load 4K BASIC from tape? I tried the bootstrapping listing from the original manual, and then I rise the A12, A9, and A8, the same way it's done with the 8K version. So far I couldn't make it load this.
3) Is there a way to copy .BAS files inside an Altair DOS image? Something similar to PCGET under CP/M.
Well, that's all, for now :)