The Microtan Java Emulator

NEW: I have written a small tool to sample CUTS tapes and have thus transfered some software sent by J.P.Gilliver:

Microtanic software Games Pack #1 (3 games in Basic): Hangman, Lunar Lander, Othello board (for 2 human players)
Space Rocks (needs a dedicated keypad for directions)
Gobbler (directions are: UP (A), DOWN (Z), LEFT(,), RIGHT(.))
Adventure

You can also try the TANBUG monitor or BASIC using this link
Oh... just for the contest temperature... I've heard it from himself, Geoff Phillips is working on a 1 K Microtan Chess program ! 8-)

Now, if you want to get serious with Microtan programming, you surely want to download the Microtan emulator (with sources) on your hard disk: the microtan class is also an application you can run with your favorite Java Run-Time Environment (see Sun's page if you don't have one), thus giving you access to load/save capability (respectively F2 and F3). Just run it like this: jre microtan (or "java microtan" if you use the JDK). See arguments definition in file microtan.java.

Developers: if you prefer to use cross-development tools for the microtan, here is the format of the Microtan emulator dumps, they consists in: the ram contents, the graphics bits (512 bits = 64 bytes), and the processor state (7 bytes for PC, PSW, A, X, Y, S in this order).