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Original Altair Software

The package below contains a sample collection of sample software for the original Altair 8800 including the famous 4k Basic.

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Original Altair software 451 KB 15 May 2023 09:55:55 download
  • Altair Basic 3.2 (4k)
  • Altair 8k Basic
  • Altair Basic 4.0
  • MITS Disk Extended BASIC Version 4.1
  • Altair Disk Extended Basic Version 300-5-C (made available by Scott LaBombard)
  • Altair Disk Extended Basic Version 5.0 (from Andrew Kessel)
  • Altair DOS Version 1.0
Burcon CP/M 342 KB 15 May 2023 09:56:03 download Commercially available CP/M implementation from Burcon Inc. Generously made available by Mike Douglas who also provided a disassembly of the BIOS and the boot ROM.
  • Burcon CP/M implementation
  • Sources for creation from scratch
  • Comments and explanations from Mike Douglas
Tiny programming languages 311 KB 15 May 2023 09:56:04 download
  • MINOL (based on documents retyped by Emmanuel Roche)
  • VTL-2 (based on documents retyped by Emmanuel Roche)
More Original Altair software 704 KB 15 May 2023 09:56:04 download
  • Altair Disk Extended Basic Version 300-5-F (contributed by Mike Douglas and Martin Eberhard)
  • Altair Hard Disk Basic Version 300-5-C with MITS accounting software (contributed by Mike Douglas and Martin Eberhard)
  • Altair Mini-Disk BASIC Version 300-5-E (contributed by Mike Douglas and Martin Eberhard)