After referring this matter to House Harris Legal Department and lengthy deliberations of that most august body, the answer has come back....Go Go Go with the project.

Just thought I might let people know I still live, having moved house to a new House Harris. Must get the SYM development system out of storage and see if it still works.

This is brilliant Andy, will this allow plugging in the NVram devices needed for my DOS to run? That should eliminate instabilities introduced with the wired memory expansions. I'm going to want one of these when they are ready to distribute.

That's very handy, I was wondering about how such a thing would be done for porting purposes.

Yes GPL, got to maximise the chances that people might use it, spread out the user base. get development happening outside of House Harris as well who knows.

I have made the source code for Symbiosys avaliable now on the repository. There is also the latest release version of the Symbiosys kernel binary which should be suitable for the interface hardware as described earlier in this forum.

http://b5.net/sym1/kern.source.Symbiosys-V

The files are in ...

I have got the Sym development system running again and begun preparing the sources for release. But before the source itself I will release this patch for RAE to give it access to the disk services of symbiosys. It is a standard RAE disk patch to enable the LO, EN and DC commands, I used the patch ...

Site is operating again then, praise backups.

I must do some more work on this operating system, it has been a difficult past six months and it seemed my patent House Harris random wiring was making my Sym1 crash regularly in the summer heat.

I think maybe I should release the source code.

There's a lot in what you say, yes there is memory to be reclaimed from VIA's allocation on the sym. I can see some definite advantages to the paradigm you suggest and it would be no problem to compile the symbiosys kernel to accommodate it. Only trouble is it would break the whole thing for use on ...

I found EhBASIC on this 6502.org website. This following link seems to be the homepage for it.

http://mycorner.no-ip.org/6502/ehbasic/index.html

Just to put a note here, the Symbiosys operating system is working quite well now and has a port of FIG Forth and EhBASIC done. You can read all about it in the Programming section of this forum and the Symbiosys software is available on..

http://b5.net/sym1

This will give you the SYM of your ...

Just dropping a note here that there is a FIG Forth ported to the SYM-1 sbc with 32k of ram installed done as part of the Symbiosys DOS project being discussed in the Programming section of this forum.

http://b5.net/sym1/symforth

I thought I'd just post a note here that there is a port of EhBASIC done for the SYM-1 sbc with 32k of memory installed, it has been done as part of the ongoing Symbiosys DOS project as discussed in the programming section of this forum.

http://b5.net/sym1/ehbasic

Here is an expedited release of EhBASIC ported to Symbiosys done some time ago by cjb it is an older version but it seems to be fully operational.

http://b5.net/sym1/ehbasic

Upload the ptape and make the executaebale with this command

# store * ehbasic 600 2860

when in EhBASIC return to ...

I see yes that would do it. So now we can exchange software in papertape format, this is great. Anything could happen now.