I promise to do a video when I get my serial-VGA board going. It will
give a clean 80 x 24 display whereas XP Hyperterm gives some clutter.
Philip
On 26/01/2020 6:34 pm, Chris Fezzler wrote:
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/
