Altair 8800 / Teletype Emulator

This is an Altair 8800 / 88-SIO / teletype emulator, written with my 8080 emulator library. The 8080 processor speed is 2.1 Mhz.

To install:

cargo install teletype

You can configure the ROM file and the amount of RAM you want in the config file: ~/.config/teletype/config.toml

Example for Microsoft Basic 3.2:

[memory]
rom = "/Users/nicolasb/4kbas32.bin"
ram = 0xFFFF

MEMORY SIZE?
TERMINAL WIDTH?
WANT SIN? Y

62166 BYTES FREE

BASIC VERSION 3.2
[4K VERSION]

OK

The escape key opens a menu, from which you can:

• Quit the emulator without having to press CTRL-C
• Auto-type a BASIC file from your disk. This "injects" the text of the file into the teletype and is very convenient to load a BASIC program, since BASIC 3.2 does not provide disk operation commands.
• Load or save a snapshot (altair.snapshot)

Pressing ESC a second time quits the menu.

On this page you will find several basic programs. I personally love seawar4k.bas and lander4k.bas.