Re: PET Rabbit utility uploaded to zimmers.net

Ethan,

Will the C64 Datasette belts fit the Pet ones?

-Terry Raymond

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've never worked with the C-64 version of Rabbit, but I do have a 4K ROM
> > Rabbit for my PET 2001-32N (3032)
>
> I also have a tape-loadable version of the Rabbit, with a 2K payload that
> gets installed at $7800 (there were different versions for 16K and 8K PETs,
> but I never had those).
>
> After years of trying to get replacement drive belts for my stack of C2N
> tape
> drives, I have _finally_ gotten a working tape drive (off the free table
> at the
> recent Vintage Computer Festival-Midwest) and have backed up my
> Rabbit install tape and uploaded it to ftp.zimmers.net:/incoming/cbm/
> pet-cbm
> *with* a readme.
>
> > and I just found the original manual
> > (though it's water-damaged and needs to be scanned).
>
> I have not scanned the manual (yet) but I did upload with the binary
> an ASCII copy of the manual which is accurate outside of any corrected
> original typos.
>
> > I personally have a shoebox-full of PET Rabbit tapes of stuff I wrote
> > c. 1979-1981 and of backups of commercials stuff...
>
> I was also able to recover a couple of those tapes, the Chimera
> and Hooptedoodle game sets and Creative Computing's "Conversational
> Games" (ELIZA and such).  Additionally, I have a set of museum demo
> programs (for 16K PETs) from a late 1970s travelling exhibit on Energy
> and Energy Conservation (two versions of Hangman, "Driving for $$$"
> and an energy quiz).  I have not yet uploaded these.
>
> I was pretty happy to have 98% success reading 30-35-year-old tapes.
>
> Now I just need to find which machine or parts drawer the 2532 with
> ROM Rabbit ended up in.
>
> -ethan
>
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