K-1008-2L Patches to Microsoft BASIC

Patches to Microsoft Basic K-1008-2L sources, binaries and demos

This package was distributed as a manual and a cassette with some binaries. The user is supposed to type in and adapt the sources himself.

K-1008-2L Patches to Microsoft BASIC manual, cleaned up
K-1008-2L Patches to Microsoft BASIC original scan by Dave Plummer

The original sources of the Basic patches, the Basic demonstration program and the parallel keyboard routine are typed in by me in october 2023.

Assembler and binary versions of the Patches
Download here the assembler sources and binary versions of the K-1008-2L Patches to Microsoft BASIC
In this archive:
The manual: K-1008-2L Patches to Microsoft BASIC cleaned.pdf
Folders with running software typed in and assembled:
– vmbas kim1 tty lowercase: tested version of the patches to be used with the KIM-1 keyboard. Adapted for KB-9 V1.1, real lowercae characterset. see teh readme.txt how to use, KB-9 included.
– vmbas Basic demo: tested with vmbas kim1 tty lowercase

Additional:
– vmbas original: original source in modern assembler format. to be used with a parallel keyboard routine
– vmbas parallel keyboard: addon to use a parallel keyboard connected to the free RRIOT port

The running software has been tested with the K-1008 emulation in the KIM-1 Simulator.