I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
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Re: I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
#2No AI or OCR here, just an idiot with too much free time. After seeing that the AltaBASIC source posted was a scan of paper tape, I thought having it in a digital document proper would be good for preservation and novelty's sake. I've never written Assembly, and I'm not a typography expert! Feel free to point and laugh at any silly mistakes. Let's see how many days it takes!
Re: I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
#3No AI or OCR here, just an idiot with too much free time. After seeing that the AltaBASIC source posted was a scan of paper tape , I thought having it in a digital document proper would be good for preservation and novelty's sake. I've never written Assembly, and I'm not a typography expert! Feel free to point and laugh at any silly mistakes. Let's see how many days it takes!
I'm having a struggle with this computer, it loves to correct Altair to Alta and I keep forgetting to correct it. Whoops.
Re: I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
#4I don’t want to spoil your efforts, but I think the source is already online: https://github.com/option8/Altair-BASIC
Re: I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
#5No AI or OCR here, just an idiot with too much free time. After seeing that the AltaBASIC source posted was a scan of paper tape , I thought having it in a digital document proper would be good for preservation and novelty's sake. I've never written Assembly, and I'm not a typography expert! Feel free to point and laugh at any silly mistakes. Let's see how many days it takes!
I'm having a struggle with this computer, it loves to correct Altair to Alta and I keep forgetting to correct it. Whoops.
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Re: I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
#6Even if the source is already transcribed anywhere, I'm interested at what your experience will be if you keep going all the way through. A lot of authors have done things like rewrite Shakespeare plays or famous novels out by hand and claim to have got a lot of the experience of feeling like they were getting into the author's mind and stuff.. I wonder if typing this out could be similarly enlightening.
Re: I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
#7I don’t want to spoil your efforts, but I think the source is already online: https://github.com/option8/Altair-BASIC
There's a difference between the original source code and an annotated disassembly, even for assembly code.
Re: I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
#8No AI or OCR here, just an idiot with too much free time. After seeing that the AltaBASIC source posted was a scan of paper tape , I thought having it in a digital document proper would be good for preservation and novelty's sake. I've never written Assembly, and I'm not a typography expert! Feel free to point and laugh at any silly mistakes. Let's see how many days it takes!
I'm having a struggle with this computer, it loves to correct Altair to Alta and I keep forgetting to correct it. Whoops.
Let's hope it doesn't autocorrect too much of the asm...
Re: I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
#9Please read Bill Gates's Letter to Hobbyists and don't do this. He's not going to be happy that people are ripping off his Altair BASIC and not giving him any money. What you're doing is just not fair to him.
Re: I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
#10No AI or OCR here, just an idiot with too much free time. After seeing that the AltaBASIC source posted was a scan of paper tape , I thought having it in a digital document proper would be good for preservation and novelty's sake. I've never written Assembly, and I'm not a typography expert! Feel free to point and laugh at any silly mistakes. Let's see how many days it takes!
Best of luck. I hope that you don't fizzle out at some point, but I suppose 10 lines a day isn't too daunting a task.
I wonder if MS has this code somewhere in a digital vault.