Mike Stein pointed me to this device: http://geoffg.net/terminal.html
which I have bought, but have yet to assemble & use. Up to now I have
just been using a XP box with Hyperterm to give 80 x 24.
Philip
On 26/01/2020 4:52 pm, Kevin Becker wrote:
I've been eagerly awaiting the REXCPM just for something to tinker
with. I've never really used CPM before and thought this would be a
good opportunity. But I wasn't aware of the serial terminal
possibilties. This sounds amazing.
I also had never realized there were simple serial to VGA options out
there. I can't think of a lot of uses for a device like that and I'm
off to research them now.
On Sun, 2020-01-26 at 16:46 +1300, Philip Avery wrote:
It's about time I chimed in here with my side of deal - which is
producing a CP/M operating system for M100. This works with Steve's
REXCPM board and is a RAM-based system instead of floppy disks, so no
DVI necessary, just a REXCPM board. We have CP/M fully up & running
on real M100s and have been enjoying testing by playing Zork! The
software side is almost done, I'm currently doing documentation.
Steve & I have chatted and we're aiming for hardware & software to be
available for everyone within 2-months.
What CP/M brings to the M100 world, apart from languages (C, Pascal,
Forth, compiled Basics, etc) and masses of application software is
"easy 80 x 24 display". It is trivial in CP/M to direct output to the
M100 RS-232 connector, and connect a terminal (or terminal emulator)
to get 80 x 24. (Note: this *only* applies to CP/M mode, it wont
allow your native M100 software to display 80 x 24!) So the idea is
if you're going to do some M100 CP/M work at a desk, then plug in a
VGA LCD screen that has a serial-VGA conversion board attached and
enjoy 80 x 24. All low cost/energy/resource & small footprint stuff
these days. A M100 with 80 x 24 display & megabytes of fast disk is a
joy to use. Then, when you want to go mobile, you can still use M100
CP/M, just with the M100 40 x 8 display.
Will keep you all updated closer to the time.
Philip
/Making CP/M great again/
