The altair 8800 simulator is part of the simh family of simulators currently at version 3. Ed roberts, the owner and president of mits, is also the designer of the altair 8800. The mits altair 8800 was the first commercially successful personal computer. If you are a collector and have some money in your pocket maybe thats okay. Z80pack zilog z80 and intel 8080 emulator and crossassembler. The altair 8800 computer is often credited with starting the personal computer revolution in 1975. But it all started with the altair, and bill gates sometimes richest guy on earth got his first big break on the altair. Browse around ebay for an original altair 8800 and you quickly find that the price range is in the thousands of dollars. Designed by ed roberts and released in 1974, the mits altair sparked the personal computer revolution and was the basis for microsofts first product, the altair basic interpreter. As far as emulators go, this is a particularly charming one, with the altairs front panel displayed in. The intel 8080 emulator code is based on apple80 by dann mccreary. Please see the forums for software examples and screen shots. Get apps such as gba4ios, nds4ios, airshou and more here.
The system is fully self contained and does not allow you to remotely add any code but you can try out basic to run eliza. Download ialtair and enjoy it on your iphone, ipad, and ipod touch. Before the mits altair, owning a computer was not something individuals did. It allows you to get the feeling of really old software such as cpm 2. Converting my altair 8800 emulator into an s100 based system by replacing the front panel electronics and installing an s100 back plane and reproduction altair 8800 cpu. Altair 8800 part 25 a look at an original mits 88 siob. Great emulator, could you add all of the disks, like the hdipad version.
The vt100 emulator now features a usb keyboard port. Basic vt100 terminal emulation for full screen editors and games. Betterbrain improve your fluid intelligence by training the nback task. Computer mits altair 8800 was named after a planet in one of the first episodes of star trek series. Created by ed roberts in 1974, it was purchased by the thousands via mail order, proving there was a huge demand for. The 8080 emulation was added in 2014, for running vintage systems based on the. Sim8800 emulates a mits altair 8800 on an apple ii. While altair replica kits and online emulators have been available for years. The mits altair is widely accepted to be the computer that first kicked off the personal computer age. The altair 680 can easily be upgraded to 32k or more of memory and run mits basic which allows even more powerful programs and compatibility with a vast variety of existing basic programs.
Unlike a real altair 8800 it features several enhancements. The system is pictured with three altairmits boards installed. Having intel 8080 cpu inside, with 256 bytes of memory, no display and keyboard is this computer, when comparing to the present era, absolutely ridiculous. The number one resource on reddit for apple, apple ii, or even apple 2. Here is a faithful simulation of a mits altair, complete with fan noise, switch clicks, volatile memory, and a functioning intel 8080 processor.
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