[Coco] CoCoFEST - Dart Time Sharing System Contest

[Juan Castro]

FWIW, the Windows version runs just fine under Wine on Linux.

Juan Castro
Enviado do meu Olivetti Programma 101


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the mac version, and I cannot gt it to run.  Anyone else had
> any luck?
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> On 8/23/14 5:18 AM, Kip Koon wrote:
>>
>> Hi Basic Language Enthusiasts!
>>
>> During the August Meeting of the Glenside Color Computer Club, I suggested
>> that the club present/demo the Dartmouth Time Sharing System Simulator
>> during the CoCoFEST Back To Basics Conference in 2015.  As some of you
>> probably know, two computer programmers who held PHDs in Computer Science
>> invented the Basic All-purpose Symbol Instruction Code (BASIC) programming
>> language at Dartmouth College on a GE-235 Mini-frame computer system and
>> was
>> first brought online one evening in May 1964.  DTSS is a simulator written
>> by one of those creators of BASIC to simulate the actual environment the
>> students at Dartmouth College used to get their coursework calculations
>> done
>> without having to study to become computer programmers - hence the name of
>> the language.
>>
>> I also suggested during the Glenside Color Computer Club meeting that
>> maybe
>> we could hold a contest to see what kind of variety of BASIC programs
>> could
>> be created using only the 15 statements and 10 functions provided by this
>> very early version of BASIC which runs on this DTSS Simulator.  Everyone
>> at
>> that meeting were very interested in this idea, so I'm putting out an
>> Official ALL-CALL to EVERYONE in the Color Computer Community World Wide
>> to
>> participate in this contest even if you cannot attend.  Maybe everyone's
>> programs will be able to be collected together in some form and shared at
>> the CoCoFEST and be available for download from someone's web site.
>>
>> The simulator and all available information, manuals, etc. is available on
>> the DTSS site at the link below.  If you are interested in participating
>> in
>> this contest or just want to see and experience the environment the
>> Creators
>> of the Basic Language programmed on and the students at Dartmouth College
>> had to use, go download this simulator from the following web page.  Also
>> at
>> the bottom of the page, some of the ACTUAL Assembly Language Source Code
>> that ran on the GE-235 computer for the BASIC Compiler has been preserved!
>> Much of the mnemonics for the GE-235 computer look VERY SIMILAR to 6809
>> Mnemonics!  It was so cool to be able to see this source code for what may
>> very well be one of the most popular programming languages ever created!
>>
>> Link to the DTSS Simulator Web Page.  http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/#download
>>
>> These are the links for the software itself.  DTSS Simulator software for
>> [Windows] <http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/DTSS-Win.zip>  and [Macintosh]
>> <http://dtss.dartmouth.edu/DTSS-Mac.sit> .
>>
>> It is my hope that everyone who enjoys our beloved Cocos will at least
>> consider this proposal and at some level participate in it.  This could
>> turn
>> out to be quite an interesting experience for us all!  Take care my
>> friends.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Kip Koon
>>
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>>
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