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Wozmon for x86-64

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Re: Wozmon for x86-64

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Post by rendaw »

I have this image of you spending years painstakingly rewriting this, just for Apple to release their ARM processors.

FWIW I have no idea what Wozmon is, just a sentence or two at the top for people not familiar with the original.

Re: Wozmon for x86-64

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Post by selcuka »

rendaw wrote: post #3

I have this image of you spending years painstakingly rewriting this, just for Apple to release their ARM processors. FWIW I have no idea what Wozmon is, just a sentence or two at the top for people not familiar with the original.

> I have this image of you spending years painstakingly rewriting this

Initial commit: 5 days ago

Re: Wozmon for x86-64

#5

Post by k8svet »

Read the readme, consider myself a mostly-not-total-idiot. Would buy author a beer to add a whole two sentences to illuminate what wozman is. If it's just that niche and I'm ignorant feel free to ignore me.

Re: Wozmon for x86-64

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Post by RossBencina »

k8svet wrote: post #5

Read the readme, consider myself a mostly-not-total-idiot. Would buy author a beer to add a whole two sentences to illuminate what wozman is. If it's just that niche and I'm ignorant feel free to ignore me.

The source code[1] has a better intro:

> A complete instruction by instruction rewrite of Steve Wozniak's system monitor from 1976 for the Apple-1

I found a nice intro to Wozmon here: https://www.sbprojects.net/projects/apple1/wozmon.php

To add to your suggestion for the README: if this is indeed an "instruction by instruction rewrite" then it would also be helpful to include a canonical link to the original 6502 source. (Found a version here: https://gist.github.com/nobuh/1161983)

[1] https://github.com/IanSeyler/wozmon_x86-64/blob/main/src/woz...

Re: Wozmon for x86-64

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Post by reanimus »

k8svet wrote: post #5

Read the readme, consider myself a mostly-not-total-idiot. Would buy author a beer to add a whole two sentences to illuminate what wozman is. If it's just that niche and I'm ignorant feel free to ignore me.

It's the boot ROM that came with the Apple I. It was pretty big for the time given that in those days, computers didn't come with flash, so you had to bootstrap programs with dip switches and the like. The Apple I came with wozmon on ROM, which provided a (VERY) minimal prompt to edit/view memory and run programs from it.

Re: Wozmon for x86-64

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Post by zellyn »

k8svet wrote: post #5

Read the readme, consider myself a mostly-not-total-idiot. Would buy author a beer to add a whole two sentences to illuminate what wozman is. If it's just that niche and I'm ignorant feel free to ignore me.

This might be helpful… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpG8rgI7Hec

I find it a little weird that these comments always come up on hackernews… if you type "wozmon" in your URL bar and hit enter to search, pretty much _all_ the results are pertinent and helpful.

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