AX-2: Uchuu Yusousen Nostromo (Space Freighter Nostromo)

Designed and Programmed for the Commodore Pet 2001 by Akira Takiguchi in 1981

Ported to the NEC-PC6001 by Masakuni Mitsuhashi aka Hiromi Ohba aka Mitsu in 1982

Cover Artwork by Masashi Iwasaki

Published by ASCII Entertainment in Japan

• NEC PC-6001 Port
  • Memory Layout: NOSTROMO Memory Map
  • N60 BASIC Listing: NOSTROMO.BAS
  • Z80 Machine Code: NOSTROMO.Z80
    • Z80 instruction set - ClrHome
  • ASCII Corporation - Read-Only Memory
  • Timeline Page| BOX=ART
    

Ported to Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Color Computer MC-10 by Jim Gerrie in 2015 and 2018

• MC-10 Ports
  • 2015-11 NOSTROMO: https://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2015/11/
    • MC-10 NOSTROMO.BAS
  • 2018-05 NOSTRO: https://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2018/05/uchuu-yusousen-nostromo.html
    • MC-10 NOSTRO.BAS

Port underway for the TRS-80 Color Computer “CoCo” and Dragon Data Dragon 32/64

• CoCo Dragon Port
  • Updates
  • Source Code
  • Screenshots

As I have worked through the NEC PC6001 port I have found many nooks and crannies to explore and decisions about how to my port to the CoCo along the way.

The NEC PC-6001 loads the NOSTRO cassette data into the BASIC program memory.

The cassette file continues past the last line of tokenized BASIC code, loading Z80 binary machine code and more data into the memory after the lines of BASIC.

I've decided to build this table to organize my findings and help complete what's left to port.

BASIC Lines	Z80 Addresses	Purpose
1 - 9		Copyright REMarks
10		One Time Setup
	E164 - E17D	Memory Setup
	E240 - E255	Replace Line 10
more …

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