Thanks Philip -- looking forward to seeing y'all's work! So is a "serial-VGA conversion board" basically a hardware-based terminal emulator with VGA output similar to the project board you pointed out?
What is the existing REXCPM board? I am not familiar with it. Cheers, rcs On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:46 PM 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* > > > -- *Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin. *[Irish Gaelic] (There is no fireside like your own fireside.)
