There is a copy of the cp/m 2.2 manual here http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/drcpmmanual.html
-----Original Message----- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Chris Pile Sent: 31 May 2014 21:01 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Pro-DOS v2.0 (CP/M 2.2) released > On 31/05/2014 19:42, Tommo H wrote: > I'm late to the party but congratulations from me! Thank you! >Now we can all more easily word process just like George R.R. Martin. I think I'd still sooner user a PC these days! ;-) > Presumably you've got, or once had, some real, physical documents? The original version of Pro-DOS was written before the large amount of reference material now available on the 'net. Back in 1991 my local reference library had a copy of the original CP/M 2.2 user manual, so I photocopied the "System Interface" section and used those photocopies as my reference material. It was all I had to go on at the time. I no longer have those photocopied sheets. Today there is far more CP/M reference material available, including the original CP/M 2.2 user manual as a .PDF. As with *all* of the programs I have ever written it was all trial and error really! Certainly no formal methods and no real planning. I just wrote the code as I went along. Something I've always done and still do! One website I found useful for technical reference was: http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/index.html Perhaps the biggest difference between doing this rewrite and writing the original back in 1991 was the availability of CP/M programs with which to perform system testing. Back in '91 I relied on CP/M test programs collected by Wayne Weedon, with many of those arriving on floppy disks from software libraries in the US. For this rewrite I had access to the huge "OAK" and "WALNUT CREEK" archive CDs which are both freely available on-line. These gave me much more scope for CP/M 2.2 compatibility testing. It might be worth remembering that Pro-DOS isn't actually CP/M 2.2 but rather my interpretation of it. For example, it doesn't have separate BIOS/BDOS sections like "real" CP/M and is pretty much all one large(ish) program. These days I imagine it would be far simpler to take the original CP/M 2.2 and get that running on the SAM. But "cheating" by using other people's code has never been for me. Perhaps I'm a masochist! In the future I'll be sticking to games. Far simpler, and no need to write a user manual either! ;-) Chris.
