ICD R-Time 8
It bothered me that wasn't a clear how-to on reading the RT8 aside from ICD assembly source.
Not willing to mess around with it in C any more than I already had, I dropped back to figuring it out in BASIC. If I can make it work there, its easy to move to C. From BASIC I can do all kinds of interactive stuff, numeric conversions, and string manipulation without a build cycle.
I read, and re-read, and re-read what little documentation there is and created a test program. Short and skinny, I got it to work. I'm going to write the process up in a blog post with both BASIC and C source (once I convert it to C). Its not straightforward, and requires a bit of string manipulation in Atari BASIC (would be much easier in C or Action!).
Here's the proof. Each set of 2 numbers i…
