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UniFLEX BASIC Precompiler User's Manual
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Technical Systems Consultants, Inc.

UniFLEX/6809

UniFLEX is a Unix-like operating system developed by Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) for the Motorola 6809.

Documents

Hardware Diagnostics for UniFLEX (13,672,737 bytes)
CDSBUG is a diagnostic tool designed to assist qualified technical personnel in finding and rectifying malfunctions in the SWIPC CDS Marksman disk units.
DISKTEST is a diagnostic program that can be used by the UniFlex system user or by qualified technical personnel as an aid in the testing or the repairing of a DMF2 or DMF3 Disk Controller and disk drives.
MPS2TEST is a diagnostic program that can be used by qualified technical personnel as an aid in testing or repairing a SWIPC MP-S2 serial interface.
INFOMAG - INFOrmation Management by Groups (11,652,366 bytes)
A Data Base Management System
By Alfred M. Dodd.
Documentation by Cal R.. Rasmussen.
Great Plains Computer Co., Inc.-
UniFLEX BASIC Precompiler User's Manual (3,868,657 bytes)
The precompiler accepts Basic source files and produces a "compiled" file similar to that produced by the "compile" command in UniFLEX Basic. This precompiler should not be confused with other Basic compilers that generate machine language code, because the UniFLEX Basic Precompiler generates an intermediate code that can only be used with UniFLEX Basic.
UniFLEX Binary software license agreement (335,183 bytes)
UniFLEX Pastime Package 1 (3,806,003 bytes)
battleship: Play a game similar to the board game Battleship.
blackjack: Play the game of blackjack with the computer as the dealer.
fortune: Randomly display a message from the "fortune" data base.
hangman: Play the word-guessing game of hangman.
life: Play Conway's game of life.
mastermind: Play the game of Master Mind”.
othello: Play the game of Othello”.
poker: Play draw poker with the computer acting as dealer.
snake: Race against a snake to get the gold.
spacevoyage: Play Space Voyage”, a space simlation game.
UniFLEX Software licensing Instructions (734,843 bytes)
UniFLEX Text Processing System (6,304,725 bytes)
UniFLEX User/System Accounting Package (6,072,962 bytes)
The UniFLEX User/System Accounting Package is a useful tool for keeping track of system resources. The package contains several utilities that produce reports that show the system manager how the system is being used.
UniFLEX Utilities Package I (6,655,520 bytes)
UniFLEX Utilities Package II (10,572,522 bytes)
UniFLEX Calculator installation disk
Diskette label

Software

The following software was originally stored on 8" floppy disks.

archive.zip (Archiving programs)
basic-1981.zip (UniFLEX BASIC)
Copyright (C) 1981 Technical Systems Consultants, Inc.
basic-1984.zip (Basic Version 2.12 disk)
Released October 1, 1984.
Serial number: 251D-72182194
calculator.zip (UniFLEX Calculator)
for 6809 UniFLEX
Copyright 1985 by Scintillex Software
All rights reserved.
Serial Number: 000182
cdsboot.zip (CDS Boot)
Boot drivers for CDS, DMF2, DMF3
disk-duplicator.zip (UniFLEX Disk Duplicator for SWTPC S/09 with DMF-3)
Copyright (C) 1987 Technical Systems Consultants, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Serial Number: 251D-72182193 UDD-S03

Caution: Do Not Execute This Program Under UniFLEX. Boot Directly
disk-maintenance.zip (Disk Maintenance Package)
for 6809 UniFLEX
Copyright 1985 by Scintillex Software
All rights reserved.
Serial Number: 000182
enh-print.zip (UniFLEX Enhanced Printer Spooler)
Copyright (C) 1981 Technical Systems Consultants, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Serial Number: 251D-72182193 UEP-01
hwdiags.zip (Hardware Diagnostics for UniFLEX)
Copyright 1982 SWTPc
infomag.zip (INFOMAG installation disk)
Serial number: I503010D55
Copyright 1982 by Great Plains Computer Co.
initializer-ii.zip (Initializer II)
for 6809 UniFLEX
Copyright 1985 by Scintillex Software
All rights reserved.
Serial Number: 000182
pascal-1981.zip (6809 UniFLEX Pascal)
Copyright (C) 1981. Property of Technical Systems Consultants, Inc.
pastime.zip (6809 UniFLEX Pastime Package 1)
Copyright (C) 1985 Technical Systems Consultants, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Serial Number: 251D-72182193 UPP-01
pccopy.zip (UniFLEX to PC Copy)
for 6809 UniFLEX
Copyright 1987 by Scintillex Software
All rights reserved.
Serial Number: 000182
screen-editor.zip (UniFLEX Screen Editor)
Copyright (C) 1985 Technical Systems Consultants, Inc. USE-01
sort-merge.zip (6809 UniFLEX Sort/Merge)
Copyright (C) 1981. Property of Technical Systems Consultants, Inc.
stylo-dk.zip (Stylograph for UniFLEX v. 2.0)
Includes help texts for English and Danish
textproc.zip (UniFLEX Text Processor Version 1.21 disk)
Serial number: 251D-72182193

uniflex-s09.zip (6809 UniFLEX Operating System for SWTPc S/09)
user-system-accounting.zip (UniFLEX User/System Accounting)
Copyright (C) 1984 Technical Systems Consultants, Inc. USA-01
utilities.zip (UniFLEX Utilities)
Copyright: c 1982 SWTPc
utilities1.zip (UniFLEX Utilities Package I)
Copyright (C) 1984 Technical Systems Consultants, Inc. UUT-01
utilities2.zip (UniFLEX Utilities Package II)
Copyright (C) 1984 Technical Systems Consultants, Inc. UUT-02

Disk geometries

The disk images are stored in zipped raw format. You can infer the geometry from the size of the image:

315,392 bytes
77 tracks, single-side, sector size: 512, sectors/track: 8
630.784 bytes
77 tracks, dual-sided, sector size: 512, sectors/track: 8
1,261,568 bytes
77 tracks, dual-sided, sector size: 512, sectors/track: 16.

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