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A few weeks ago we stumbled across Dave Hassler at home at vanportmedia and his unofficial but no less great KIM-1 Preservation Project. Sometimes you just get lucky. 🍀 Now there's an update - or rather several. 🤩

Over the past few weeks Dave has been working on several additions, including typing up and modifying the source code for Tiny PILOT, to create a comprehensive overall package. Pilot? Anyone?

He also revived VIC and PET PILOT interpreter by Mike Tinglof to make it more performant under KIM-1 BASIC 9. And he also made changes to a version of VTL-2 so that 1K more RAM is available for user programs. 1K!

All bohemian villages?

Then maybe some of the newly added games like RESCUE, DODGEM and SINNERS will tell you something. There are also two chess-like puzzle games from VIC-20 for KIM-1: KNIGHT'S MOVE and CENTO. All of Dave's current work is available - as always - on his website at www.vanportmedia.com/PAL-1.

You don't have a KIM-1? Then try Hans Otten's KIM-1 Simulator.