Subj : Re: Looking for Petspeed or another PET compiler
To   : Andreas Kohlbach
From : Tristan Miller
Date : Sat May 13 2023 09:09 am

Greetings.

On 2023-05-13 01:46, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2023 21:40:45 +0200, Tristan Miller wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone help me locate a copy of the original Petspeed compiler for
>> the Commodore PET (not its later conversion for the Commodore 64), or
>> any other BASIC compiler for the PET?
>
> Any luck under
> <http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/pet/ALLFILES.html>?
>
> I could download petspeed.d80.zip, but one of my emulators misses PET
> roms. On the other I don't know how to type numbers.


Thanks.  Any idea if there's a manual specific to the PET version?  I
tried both petspeed-80col.d64 and petspeed.d80 -- the compiler launches
and prompts me for a filename, but after that I always get the following
error message:

disc error for programname:    74,drive not ready,00,00

Possibly the compiler works only with certain PET models, or certain
disk drive models, or is expecting a blank disk in the second drive of a
dual disk drive...  I've blindly tried a few different combinations but
so far nothing has worked.

Regards,
Tristan

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