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  • CP/M (was: Testing my new node number)

    From acn@21:3/127.1 to apam on Tue May 4 13:52:00 2021
    Am 04.05.21 schrieb apam@21:1/182 in FSX_GEN:

    Hallo apam,

    Yep I've used z88dk for a few little programs, wrote a couple of games
    for my rc2014 based system :)

    Ah yes, now I remember :)
    I've even added Pac to my VT100 games repository (https://git.imzadi.de/acn/vt100-games)

    Hmm, I'll have to look at that. I think the hard part for me would be communicating with the serial port.

    That's always the problem in CP/M...

    I don't have CP/M 3 though, I have Steves Z180 machine (I forget the SC number) maybe that would run it? It has both RomWBW and SCM but I don't
    know anything about CP/M 3.

    Do you mean a SC126, the "big" Z180 machine?
    I also have one of these.
    In the RomWBW repository, CP/M 3 is available and I've created an installation of that on my RomWBW systems.

    If you prefer a CP/M 2 and CP/M 3 compatible solution that instead depends
    on RomWBW (I guess), you could use the HBIOS serial functions.
    In this case, the program would work on all RomWBW based systems, you just need to know the HBIOS device number for the desired serial port.
    (in CP/M 3, the "modem" is usually the virtual device AUX: which can be mapped to the desired serial port using eg. DEVICE AUX:=COM2:).

    Regards,
    Anna

    --- OpenXP 5.0.49
    * Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)
  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to apam on Tue May 4 14:52:00 2021
    Am 04.05.21 schrieb apam@21:1/182 in FSX_GEN:

    Hallo apam,

    Yep I've used z88dk for a few little programs, wrote a couple of games
    for my rc2014 based system :)

    Ah yes, now I remember :)
    I've even added Pac to my VT100 games repository (https://git.imzadi.de/acn/vt100-games)

    Hmm, I'll have to look at that. I think the hard part for me would be communicating with the serial port.

    That's always the problem in CP/M...

    I don't have CP/M 3 though, I have Steves Z180 machine (I forget the SC number) maybe that would run it? It has both RomWBW and SCM but I don't
    know anything about CP/M 3.

    Do you mean a SC126, the "big" Z180 machine?
    I also have one of these.
    In the RomWBW repository, CP/M 3 is available and I've created an installation of that on my RomWBW systems.

    If you prefer a CP/M 2 and CP/M 3 compatible solution that instead depends
    on RomWBW (I guess), you could use the HBIOS serial functions.
    In this case, the program would work on all RomWBW based systems, you just need to know the HBIOS device number for the desired serial port.
    (in CP/M 3, the "modem" is usually the virtual device AUX: which can be mapped to the desired serial port using eg. DEVICE AUX:=COM2:).

    Regards,
    Anna

    --- OpenXP 5.0.49
    * Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)