Commodore 64 Operating Systems and Compilers(last updated 2010-10-31) |
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 images or ZipCode sixpacks). 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. Some of the images are ZipCode six-packed because they are copy-protected. You can find a copy of ZipCode here. (When extracting six-packs, after the first three files have been read, you'll get a 62 error (file not found); insert the disk with the second three files and hit Return.)
Abacus Ada Training Course ZipCode
six-pack: files
1-3, files
4-6 manual
Abacus Assembler/Monitor 64 ZipCode
six-pack: files
1-3, files
4-6
manual
Abacus Basic 64
Abacus Video Basic 64
Abacus COBOL
D64 image
manual
Abacus Forth disk is copy-protected (ZipCode
won't make a viable copy)
(manual)
Abacus Fortran
D64 image
Abacus Super-C
D64 image
manual
Abacus Super Pascal ZipCode
six-pack: files
1-3, files
4-6 manual
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.