Commodore 64 Operating Systems and Compilers(last updated 2010-02-21) |
This is where I brag about my collection of operating systems and programming languages for the Commodore 64. In many cases, there are links to sites where more information can be found and/or downloads in D64 image format. I'm finally getting around to fleshing out some of the entries with download links; if you see something you wish you had, email me (shadowm at lyonlabs.org) and I'll try and get you a copy (or a picture).
If you find any links (or D64s) that don't work, please contact me at the address above so I can fix it.
disk ?boot ; sh < boot
to start)If you're searching for things like this, a good place to try is OldSoftware.com; Reid will do his best to help you find what you are looking for. Even if you have an image of the disk and a copy of the documentation, it's always nicer to have the originals.
As of September 2006, I believe I have all the Abacus compilers. The manuals here were scanned by DLH. Now that they're available, I'll follow up with disk images, cracking as necessary. If you want to help with the cracking, I can make RAMBOard or burst-nibbled copies with the protection intact.
Abacus Ada Training Course
disk is copy-protected
(manual)
Abacus Assembler/Monitor 64
disk is copy-protected
(manual)
Abacus Basic 64
Abacus Video Basic 64
Abacus COBOL
D64 image
manual
Abacus Forth
disk is copy-protected
(manual)
Abacus Fortran
D64 image
Abacus Super-C
D64 image
manual
Abacus Super Pascal (manual)
The Super Pascal disk uses a custom disk format with long sectors, so it can't be imaged as a D64.
PROMAL is an unusual language that has features of several others. Each of these D64 images were extracted from a single ARC file as I downloaded them from Q-Link in the olden times, so some of them don't use much of the disk space. But hey, we're not on plus time any more! I haven't played around with these for years, but had a request for them, so I figured I'd gather up all the PROMAL I have and make it available. If you have any questions or additional information, please email me at the address on the top of this page.
* PROMAL checks to see if there's a disk in drive 9 when he
starts up; if there isn't, he'll bang the heads. Caveat
utilitor.
** This comes from five different ARC files, with many
duplicated files between them. I don't know if that's so it could be
compiled in pieces, or...? If you want the original ARC files on a
D64, drop me a line
(shadowm at lyonlabs.org).
Here is the complete documentation for PROMAL (something I looked for for years). I finally found someone with a copy, who sent it to me as a ZIP of about two dozen PDFs, which DLH gathered together as a single file and made a bit smaller. It's still quite large, though, weighing in at 85M.