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IBM Datamaster

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First post, by yevrowl

Posted on 2026-06-10, 23:21

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Is there an IBM Datamaster emulator? And is there a BASIC programming language for it?

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Posted on 2026-06-11, 05:36

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Hi,

The only attempt I know at IBM Datamaster emulation is an incomplete pull request on the MAME repository: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/13356

However it seems to be untouched since 2025, and the last comment is that it doesn't even compile, so it seems to be in a "needs work" condition...

EDIT: The Datamaster used an Intel 8085 as its CPU, which is well known and there are emulator/simulators for it, so the difficulty is not the CPU part of the emulation but emulating the other parts of the hardware.

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