Telefonbuch

Found in Hobbycomputer #1 (c) 1980 Herwig Feichtinger (of EMUF fame!) improved by Nils Andreas, a phonebook
In fact, it is a searchable text database. Full article here

The program is written, probably by hand, Herwig Feichtinger in the German magazine Hobbycomputer, Issue 1.

On the github page of Nils you can find source and executables.

Hobby Computer magazine

A German magazine, from Franzis Verlag. Sonderheft der ELO Funkschau Elektronik


Hobbycomputer 1

KIM-1 articles llike Telefonbuch. See also the page on Telefonbuch restauration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hobbycomputer 2

KIM-1 and more general 6502 articles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telefonbuch

Found in Hobbycomputer #1 (c) 1980 Herwig Feichtinger (of EMUF fame!) improved by Nils Andreas, a phonebook

On the github page of Nils you can find source and executables.

In fact, it is a searchable text database.

The program is written, probably by hand, Herwig Feichtinger in the German magazine Hobbycomputer, Issue 1. Available on archive.org.

I took the source as typed in by Nils, added the comments from the (see below) listing in the article and made sure it was binary compatible with the listing. There are some problems with the first entry in the database.

Source, listing, article, binary, papertape of original version of Telefonbuch

; Target assembler: TASM 
;*****************************
;* Telefonbuch               *
;* (c) 1979                  *
;* Herwig Feichtinger        *
;*****************************
; typed in and checked by Nils Andreas
; comments entered from German listing into source
; checked for being binary compatible with original listing in HobbyComputer 1 1979
;
; Note that getch in KIM-1 returns with Y = $FF, used in this program to save two bytes?
; Testcase for the KIM-1 Simulator, which now emulates this getch behaviour
;
; Hans Otten, 15 december 2021
; 
CR     =       $0d             ; carriage return
esc     =       $1b             ; escape

crlf    =       $1e2f           ; KIM-1 print cr 
getch   =       $1e5a           ; KIM-1 read char for tty
space   =       $1e9e           ; KIM-1 print space tty
outch   =       $1ea0           ; KIM-1 print car on tty
incpt   =       $1f63           ; increment pointer
;
; zeropage
;
savy    = $f9
tablep  = $fa                   ; pointer into table 
bufferp = $df                   ; buffer
table   = $0200                 ; table starts here
;
         .org    $0000
;
start:   lda     #(table & $ff) ; low byte table address
         sta     tablep
         lda     #(table >> 8)  ; high byte table address 
         sta     tablep + 1     ; 
         ldx     #$17           ; 17 bytes clear
         lda     #$00
buffer:  sta     bufferp,x      ; clear buffer
         dex
         bne     buffer
;         
read:    jsr     getch          ; get ascii character
         cmp     #esc           ; escape? 
         bne     chkend         ; no
         iny                    ; yes, y = 0
chkfre:  jsr     incpt          ; increment table pointer 
         lda     (tablep),y     ; query buffer
         bne     chkfre         ; free space in buffer?
input:   jsr     getch          ; get ascii character
         iny                    ; y=0
         cmp     #esc           ; escape?
         beq     start          ; yes, back to begin
         sta     (tablep),y     ; no, store in table
         jsr     incpt          ; increment table pointer
         jmp     input          ; and again

chkend:  cmp     #CR            ; return?
         beq     zzz            ; yes, line ready
         sta     bufferp +1,x   ; no, store char in buffer
         inx                    ; increment buffer index
         cpx     #$15           ; is $15?
         bne     read           ; next character
;
zzz:     nop                    
         nop
;
newline: jsr     incpt          ; table after return
         ldy     #$00           ; search for character
         lda     (tablep),y     ; in table           
         beq     printquest     ; 
         cmp     #CR            ; found?
         bne     newline        ; no, search again
found:   ldx     #$00           ; yes, compare character in table
compbuf: iny                    ; with character in buffer
         lda     bufferp +1,x   ; no, compare table and buffer
         beq     printline      ; show it
         lda     (tablep),y
         cmp     #CR            ; return?
         beq     zzz
         cmp     bufferp +1,x   ; next character
         bne     found
         inx
         bne     compbuf
;         
         nop
         nop
;
printline:
         jsr     crlf           ; new line
         ldy     #$01
loadchar:
         lda     (tablep),y     ; load character from table
         beq     printquest     ; zero is ready
         cmp     #CR            ; return?
         beq     zzz            ; end of table entry
         sty     savy           ; save Y
         jsr     outch          ; and print character
         ldy     savy
         iny                    ; increment Y, next
         bne     loadchar       ; load new character
printquest:
         jsr     crlf           ; print return
         lda     #'?'           ; print ?
         jsr     outch          ; 
         jsr     space          ; print space
         jmp     start          ; return
;
        .end

Here the pages where the program is described and the listing shown.

Update to the KIM-1 Simulator

Nils, a very enthousiast PAL-1 user discovered in an old German magazine, 1979, HobbyComputer 1, a small phonebook program for the KIM-1.
It is a command line utility, extremely small and quite clever. See the post about it here.

So he entered the code in assembler and did some tests on his PAL-1 (it worked) and in the KIM-1 Simulator, which was not working.
He found the ‘database’ corrupted.

Of course I had to look at it and see what was going on. It had to be something about using zeropage pointers into the database.
And it was. In the source an instruction appeared:

INY  ; Y = 0

followed by an indirect addressing, Y into the database and preceded by a call to getch, reading a character from the keyboard.
Y was not used in the program before, so in the Simulator it was uncertain what the value was.

GETCH is known to destroy the Y register, delivering the character in register A. How is unspecified.
In the KIM-1 Simulator the KIM-1 GETCH is patched to the ACIA routines of the emulated 6850 serial interface.
Those routines do not use Y, so it is left untouched.

So time to study the KIM-1 routines. In the delay a bit routine the Y register is filled with the final state of a counter, TIMH.
It looks like the decrement ends with the value $FF, when the BPL becomes false, the whole purpose of the use of Y seems to determine that end of the loop?

 1ED4  AD F3 17  DELAY   LDA   CNTH30                           
 1ED7  8D F4 17          STA   TIMH
 1EDA  AD F2 17          LDA   CNTL30
 1EDD  38        DE2     SEC   
 1EDE  E9 01     DE4     SBC   #$01 
 1EE0  B0 03             BCS   DE3  
 1EE2  CE F4 17          DEC   TIMH
 1EE5  AC F4 17  DE3     LDY   TIMH
 1EE8  10 F3             BPL   DE2
 1EEA  60                RTS

Anyway, the KIM-1 Simulator 0.9.4. GETCH routine now returns with Y=$FF and the phonebook program seems to work.

Microsoft Basic for the KIM-1 KB-6

I know KB6 existed. The ‘6’ stands for the precision in digits of the floating point number. In the documentation KB-6 is described.
Never seen a version in the wild. I know KB6 existed. The ‘6’ stands for the precision in digits of the floating point number. In the documentation KB-6 is described. Never seen a version in the wild. So the reconstruction here is not checked with the original, addresses in the reconstruction from the linker differ from the documentation.”>So the reconstruction here is not checked with the original, addresses in the reconstruction from the linker differ from the documentation.

Microsoft Basic for the KIM-1: KB9 update

More information on KB9 and a new faster and smaller version

Microsoft MOS TECH 6502 BASIC V1.1 or KB-9

MOS TECH 6502 BASIC V1.1
COPYRIGHT 1977 BY MICROSOFT

This page is about the BASIC Microsoft made for the 6502, specific for the KIM-1. It is about the same as the BASIC. in the first PET, AppleSoft and such.

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source, and that includes KB-9 or as it is officially called:

“Now, for the first time, this influential 6502 version is truly yours to explore, modify, and share.”

This means that we are allowed to distribute and modify KB-9 and derivates without breaking licenses!

Also see the pagetable post from 2005 that explains a lot about this source.

The license that goes with Microsoft 6502 BASIC is the MIT License.

On this page you will find:

My MSBasic for the KIM-1 cassette


Another MOS TECH BASIC for KIM-1, lower serial number


Thanks Gerben Voort


You could call Bill Gates for support!

The EASTER EGG

Microchess and MICRO ADE sources and binaries

Microchess and MICRO-ADE are two products from Micro-Ware Limited, a company by Peter R. Jennings.

The sources of these two programs have been typed in and assembled by me from August to November 2021, and the resulting binary output is identical to my saved from cassette tape binaries.
All these files (source, binaries, papertape, audio cassette wave files, and manuals) are now
available at the KIM-1 Software page.

Robert Leedom games

In the KIM User Notes there were several KIM-1 games published by Robert Leedom.

A tiny Colossal Cave Adventure, HEXPAWN and Baseball.

With his help and others these games have been typed in again and are playable on any KIM-1 (Reproduction), PAL-1, Kim Clone, Micro-KIM.

In August 2021 I (Hans Otten) typed in the source of MICRO-Ade from the listing in the manual, the output is binary compatible with the binaries I saved from tape and are tested on the KIM-1.
The result is a source identical (in standard MOS Technology assembler format) to the listing and binary identical to the page image. I also made new high quality scan of the manual and the listing.
Micro Ade program source and binary
Scanned manual
Scanned listing

Read in the KIM KENNER archive the source of the enhancements (text by S.T. Woldringh o.a.)
The KIM club enhanced Micro Ade to version 8. Download here the binary with a 2 page command summary.
MICRO-ADE V8