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Microbee PILOT tape recovered - ChickenMan - 03-04-2021
Thanks to kimjohn for making this original tape available to be recorded. The tape was recorded at 44.1khz and saved as a stereo 16bit WAV file. The Left & Right channels were separated and saved as individual mono files. There was 2 x 300baud copies on one side only together with 2 copies of the 2 demo files. They all loaded error free into a PC85 with nothing needed to be done to them, they were then down-sampled to 22khz and saved as 8bit WAV files to reduce their size considerably but still remain loadable.
The PILOT language is ideally suited to teaching students and beginners
the principles of interactive computer programming, and is a suitable
language for Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI). It has become widely
used for educational applications, and even very young programmers are
able to learn its simple syntax quite quickly. PILOT is essentially a
non-mathematical language, although it can perform most arithmetic
integer operations. The real power of PILOT lies in its ability to match
strings of words or letters and to respond with conditional answers.
The program on the tape provided consists of three parts -
1. A general purpose text editor, to create and edit your own programs.
2. The PILOT interpreter to RUN the program. These two programs are dumped together and the program starts with entry into the Editor.
3. 2 sample PILOT programs which shows how each of the commands are used, labelled EXAMPL and TABLES.
We have 2 forms of the PILOT Manual in the Repository, so check them out on how to actually use the program together with further examples.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\Tapes\Original folder we placed
pilot.zip <-- contains Pilot & the 2 demos as WAV and BEE & PLT files
pilot_t2.jpg <-- in the \Documentation\Pictures\Tapes folder