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My PC XT didn't boot into BASIC, I wonder why. It's long gone now so I can't investigate what hardware it actually had. This boots X11/Wayland and then an SDL
by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
My PC XT didn't boot into BASIC, I wonder why. It's long gone now so I can't investigate what hardware it actually had.
This boots X11/Wayland and then an SDL app on top of it, I wonder what it would take to write a shell or init that the kernel loads straight after it's done loading itself up. Maybe The systemd folks can make systemd-basic...
- jandrese 5y agoI remember our school computers you had to start the machine without anything in the floppy drive to get dumped into BASIC. Unfortunately it was a very limited BASIC. I guess there wasn't much space in the BIOS ROMS. It was pretty much always worth it to boot DOS and start GWBASIC.
- thanatos519 5y agoI was thinking of using a framebuffer version of VICE as 'init' to boot directly to a C=64 environment.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago> My PC XT didn't boot into BASIC, I wonder why. Mine didn't either, it booted into DOS 3.0(?) and I got to BASIC by running BASICA.EXE. If I had to guess, it booted into DOS if you had a hard disk and otherwise booted BASIC from a ROM?
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoNah it didn't have a hard disk, and booting up without any floppies inserted resutled in an error message...
- drivers99 5y agoSounds like it should have had it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC#IBM_Cassette_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC#IBM_Cassette_BASIC I still have my IBM PC (5150), taking up a lot of closet space.