dave_m
Veteran Member
In the early 80's, North American Rockwell developed, for in-house use, a very comprehensive package of utilities for the PET. The package was named Basic, Assembly and Text Processor (BATPRO). The programmer is a retired engineer named John Darling. Recently he has uncovered a set of the EPROMs and a very detailed write-up. I will post the introduction in a follow-up message to see if there is any interest. If so, I have his permission to post the binary files and I have created a set of Intel Hex files also.
I have a limited number of Texas Instruments 2532 EPROMs that I will program and send to serious PET enthusiasts free of charge who do not have PROM programming capability just to ensure that this software will continue to be used.
I will also convert the hard copy manual to a pdf file and will post this as soon as possible. John told me that the utility adds 49 new commands useful for developing and troubleshooting programs and data files (sequential disk files).
Right now I am troubleshooting two 8032 machines that I borrowed from an old Rockwell guy who apparently never throws anything away (I gave mine away decades ago). The keyboards do not work well and one comes up with only 16K of RAM. But one works good enough to verify that the contents of the 26 year old EPROMs seem to be good. One really neat feature is a number converter. One enters a number in either decimal, hex or octal and it returns the number in the other forms.
I have a limited number of Texas Instruments 2532 EPROMs that I will program and send to serious PET enthusiasts free of charge who do not have PROM programming capability just to ensure that this software will continue to be used.
I will also convert the hard copy manual to a pdf file and will post this as soon as possible. John told me that the utility adds 49 new commands useful for developing and troubleshooting programs and data files (sequential disk files).
Right now I am troubleshooting two 8032 machines that I borrowed from an old Rockwell guy who apparently never throws anything away (I gave mine away decades ago). The keyboards do not work well and one comes up with only 16K of RAM. But one works good enough to verify that the contents of the 26 year old EPROMs seem to be good. One really neat feature is a number converter. One enters a number in either decimal, hex or octal and it returns the number in the other forms.