by Oscar Toledo G. Apr/12/2024
https://github.com/nanochess
This is a port of the amazing Ray Tracer in Atari 8-bit BASIC by D. Scott Williamson. You can see it at https://bunsen.itch.io/raytrace-movie-atari-8bit-by-d-scott-williamson in turn based on a static BBC micro version by @coprolite9000 https://bbcmic.ro/?t=9ctpk
I asked him for permission to make a port to a boot sector, and here it is.
If you are going to run it in real hardware it requires a minimum of a Pentium Pro, otherwise most modern emulators will be able to run it.
If you want to assemble it, you must download the Netwide Assembler (NASM) from www.nasm.us
Use this command line:
nasm -f bin ray.asm -Dcom_file=1 -o ray.com
nasm -f bin ray.asm -Dcom_file=0 -o ray.img
Tested with VirtualBox for macOS running Windows XP running this interpreter, it also works with DOSBox and probably with QEMU:
qemu-system-x86_64 -fda ray.img
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