Video please!
On Saturday, January 25, 2020, 10:46:20 PM EST, Philip Avery
<pav...@xtra.co.nz> 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
