Date   : Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:08:22 +0000
From   : Andy Armstrong <andy@...>
Subject: M-UTS

Has anyone got a copy of the HCCS M-UTS ROM? It was the first  
commercial software I wrote and I'd quite like to track down a copy  
of it.

On a related note I've been thinking about how to proceed with my  
oral history of the Beeb [1] and I decided I should do some  
recreational Beeb programming to refresh my memory about how  
everything works. So I've been writing M-UTS II because I thought  
it'd be fun to revisit something I did so long ago. It'll currently  
disassemble and do hex (and ascii) dumps. When I'm done I'm going to  
release it under the GPL - just because it seems fitting to take the  
first thing I did and free it and because I'm not aware of any other  
Beeb S/W that's GPL'd :)

Interestingly I didn't have any bother getting back into the Beeb  
programming groove. I've found that I'm working more quickly than I  
did back in the day - probably because I'm using a better editor (I'm  
cross assembling on my Mac and testing under BeebEm3) and the  
assemble / test cycle is quicker. 6502 code is as much fun as it ever  
was :)

[1] http://www.hexten.net/2005/11/28/an-oral-history-of-acorn-computers

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net