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Bringing new life to the Altair 8800 on Azure Sphere

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Jul 16, 2021
I love embedded IoT development and when a colleague asked if I’d be interested in working on cloud-enabling an Altair 8800 emulator running on Azure Sphere then I seized the opportunity. I’m ...
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Hi jeffbarr, thanks for your comment and great you like. We didn’t have access to the source code and from the research I did I don’t think the source exists. We are using an Altair BASIC binary freely downloadable from the internet. Several interesting projects have disassembled the binaries, the most complete looks to be at Altair BASIC 3.2 (4K Edition). Hopefully, this will give you some insight into how the code works. Cheers Dave