#Altair 880 emulator for mac software#
#Altair 880 emulator for mac serial#
What does that mean? It means the Intel 8080 CPU is emulated, as is some of the basic I/O (disk drives, serial ports, etc.) but everything else is REAL Altair machine code and CP/M that was created more than 40 years ago! Original Altair 8800 This is a cycle-accurate recreation of the original Altair 8800. The kit also include a micro SD card with productivity software and games for Microsoft BASIC, Altair DOS, CP/M, and more. It includes an attractive blue and gray laser cut acrylic case and an I/O expansion board with VT100 emulation, RS232 serial port, audio jack (emulating the Processor Technology Music System), SD card access, and power jack. This is my newly-released "Pro" version of the kit.
If you want a ready-to-go kit, look no further! My first “beta-testers” were my 12 and 14 year old sons! Yes, you can still follow David’s original plan if you wish. Once I saw David’s code and design, I knew I could improve on it and make an affordable, easy-to-build kit. There’s Mike Douglas’s excellent which is a dead-ringer look-alike for the Altair 8800, but it’s over $600, there’s also the very ambitious in which Grant Stockly painstakingly recreated every board and component of an original Altair. Well imagine my surprise 42 years later when David Hansel of Brookline, MA published his Ardunio-based Altair 8800 emulator project on hackster.io! I knew this was my chance to finally build an Altair 8800! Sure, there are other Altair 8800 clones out there, but all seemed out of reach for a simple working-man hobbyist. The first computer I built was 7 years later when I built the Sinclair ZX81 kit. The heyday of the Altair lasted only a short while. I never did get an Altair 8800 – the computer revolution was started and it moved FAST. It captured my imagination – and I knew that someday I would build and own my own computer. I was a child of 9 years old when the Altair 8800 was announced on the pages of Popular Electronics magazine in January of 1975. …is of little use to you? Do you long for the days of your youth when computers were new, and exciting (and perhaps useful only to those with the “know how”?) Or maybe the early days of computers were before you were even born, and you simply want to know what the big deal was? Or maybe you’re like me, a mere child when you first heard the notion that people could actually have a computer in their very own home!
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