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Slothie · 11th Jun 2020, 7:32 pm

I remember the Softy range of programmers. I got the impression that the Softy 2 could be made to run programs too, and you could see the memory on the screen. It's possible that was true of the Softy 1 too. I remember it being the first cheap programmer for hobbyists but for me still a little too expensive to justify. I ended getting one for my PET which didn't work with the ROM version I had, so I reverse engineered it and wrote a basic program with machine code bits for the critical timing. Not sure what happened to it - I may still have it somewhere!

11th Jun 2020, 7:32 pm	#7
Slothie Octode Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Newbury, Berkshire, UK. Posts: 1,287	Re: Softy 1 I remember the Softy range of programmers. I got the impression that the Softy 2 could be made to run programs too, and you could see the memory on the screen. It's possible that was true of the Softy 1 too. I remember it being the first cheap programmer for hobbyists but for me still a little too expensive to justify. I ended getting one for my PET which didn't work with the ROM version I had, so I reverse engineered it and wrote a basic program with machine code bits for the critical timing. Not sure what happened to it - I may still have it somewhere!