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  • Z80Pack CP/M 2.2 Adding Virtual Disks

    From KenUnix@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 17:01:37 2023
    Hi.

    A really nice package!!

    Is there a way to go beyond drive D: ?

    Create a drivee.dsk file first.

    Specifying a drive E: results in an Bdos Err and Z80 locks up.

    I had created a drived.dsk and that is fine.

    Thanks

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  • From Lawrence Woodman@21:1/5 to KenUnix on Mon Jan 23 23:38:53 2023
    On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 01:01:38 UTC, KenUnix wrote:

    Is there a way to go beyond drive D: ?

    You can attach a two 4Mb drives to I: and J: as well as a 512Mb drive to P:

    https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/z80pack/#dri_quick

    The main thing to remember when interacting with the images is to
    supply the correct diskdef to cpmtools otherwise you'll corrupt the images.

    Best wishes

    Lorry

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    Modula-2 Compilers on CP/M https://techtinkering.com/articles/modula-2-compilers-on-cpm/

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 24 00:56:53 2023
    The later versions of the VM has support for 4 4MB drives, I, J, K, L,
    but requires BIOS's to support the drives. The tables for supporting the
    drives are to large for a 64K CP/M, so there is a 62K CP/M available, that supports all drives. Usually the provided disk space is enough and most
    need a 64K CP/M though.

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 24 01:50:45 2023
    BTW Ken,
    on your COHERENT systems login with user udo, no password. In the home dir you'll
    find the historical releases of z80pack, when I moved the development from company
    UNIX systems to my privat COHERENT systems in 1989. These have no harddisk support
    in the VM though, just 4 IBM compatible floppy disk drives, which we were using on
    the Mostek Z80 development systems back then.

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  • From KenUnix@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 24 04:22:28 2023
    This is the command I am using to create the 512mb drive:

    Ubuntu 20.04 64 bit

    cd ~/z80pack/cpmsim/disks

    mkfs.cpm -fz80pack-hdb drivep.dsk

    This is the results:

    Release 1.37, Copyright (C) 1987-2021 by Udo Munk

    CPU speed is unlimited, CPU executes undocumented instructions

    Booting...

    64K CP/M Vers. 2.2 (Z80 CBIOS V1.2 for Z80SIM, Copyright 1988-2007 by Udo Munk)

    P:
    Bdos Err On P: Select

    What's in disk:

    Inspiron-5755:~/z80pack/cpmsim/disks$ ll
    total 3104
    drwxrwxr-x 4 ken ken 4096 Jan 24 07:17 ./
    drwxrwxr-x 11 ken ken 4096 Jan 24 06:48 ../
    drwxrwxr-x 2 ken ken 4096 Jan 24 06:12 backups/
    -rw-rw-r-- 2 ken ken 256256 Jan 6 2021 drivea.dsk
    -rw-rw-r-- 2 ken ken 256256 Jan 6 2021 driveb.dsk
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 ken ken 256256 Jan 23 12:31 drivec.dsk
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 ken ken 256256 Jan 24 06:50 drived.dsk
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 ken ken 32768 Jan 24 07:02 drivei.dsk
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 ken ken 2097152 Jan 24 06:32 drivep.dsk
    drwxrwxr-x 2 ken ken 4096 Jan 24 06:20 library/


    Ken

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 24 05:22:52 2023
    You are trying to use CP/M 2, max possible drive size is 8 MB. For the 512 MB drive
    you must use CP/M 3 and MP/M, these can handle such a large drive.

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  • From KenUnix@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 24 12:59:18 2023
    Udo,

    After spending so much time on getting CPM2 [3] to run where I can make programs I think
    I have to reduce my time spent and spend more time on RunCPM from:

    https://github.com/MockbaTheBorg/RunCPM

    That package works. worked the first time.

    Udo I admire your work on Coherent and CP/M but I can't spend endless just getting it to run.

    If desired I can provide a simplified install writeup.

    BTW, did you ever look over my submissions for bwbasic and focal for Coherent?


    Ken

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to KenUnix on Tue Jan 24 14:38:55 2023
    KenUnix schrieb am Dienstag, 24. Januar 2023 um 21:59:19 UTC+1:
    Udo,

    After spending so much time on getting CPM2 [3] to run where I can make programs I think
    I have to reduce my time spent and spend more time on RunCPM from:

    https://github.com/MockbaTheBorg/RunCPM

    That package works. worked the first time.

    No problem, if it works for you then use it. I had a brief look when it became available, works ok,
    but doesn't emulate real hardware, so no interesting system programming possible. For me it's
    not just running CP/M a bit, I need something like z80pack and that is why it exists.

    Udo I admire your work on Coherent and CP/M but I can't spend endless just getting it to run.

    Of course not, no one can, I also have several fields of interest and must decide what to do,
    which is much more than the time I have available for it.

    If desired I can provide a simplified install writeup.

    Feel free to do this, I'll look at it and include it if it is good.

    BTW, did you ever look over my submissions for bwbasic and focal for Coherent?

    No sorry, so far I haven't had the time for this, is on my long todo list and sometime
    I'll have a look.

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  • From KenUnix@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 24 16:32:37 2023
    Udo,

    I have attached two text files.

    The RunCPM file is for new installs and updates.

    The Applications file shows you basic contents of
    the available downloadable ZIP's Disk & User #.
    With A[0-9] being the initial included ZIP with the build.

    Um how do I attach files?

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 24 20:49:56 2023
    This is not a Google group. but a copy of usenet comp.os.cpm, so you cannot attach
    files like in Google groups. You can attach uuencoded files tho, as usual on usenet.

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