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Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 1 Hour 58 Minutes ago by: Plo I don't know him personally, but I can tell you that he is a very knowledgeable and professional person in machine language programming and high level languages...
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 2 Hours 50 Minutes ago by: Mark Lougheed Pardon me for the brief diversion... Martin Hepperle? THE Martin Hepperle of JavaFoil and JavaProp fame, legend and song? My hat is off! MDL
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 3 Hours 38 Minutes ago by: Plo Hi all, finally the problem is solved...The member of these two forums, Martin Hepperle, found a brilliant and perfectly working solution, here are the two links to the solution... https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/strange-compiler
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 12 Hours 41 Minutes ago by: Mark Ogden I posted the modifications for zxcc to run under windows sometime ago on Tony Nicholson's github site https://github.com/agn453/ZXCC The basic steps to build are 1) clone the github repository. Note, an updated of Hitech C is also availabl
Re: Altair BASIC Source Code comp.os.cpm Posted: 1 Day 10 Hours ago by: Richard L. Hamilton I don't know about the earliest Gates/Microsoft BASIC, but by the time of what came with my Osborne 1, it was an interpreter but tokenized, where each reserved word was a byte with the high order bit on, and some other things that intern
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 2 Days 20 Hours ago by: dxforth So a 'power user' is one who manages to create a working ZXCC Windows binary from source and uploads it to the repository. Any takers?
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 2 Days 21 Hours ago by: dott.Piergiorgio this emu is intended for the end-user (or luser ?) or a power user/hacker ? for the latter category, the source distribution is the main one.. Best regards from Italy, dott. Piergiorgio.
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 7 Days 2 Hours ago by: Plo Or is this address referred to the MAP file of the relocatable obj file?
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 7 Days 2 Hours ago by: Plo Since it is the PROFOR2.com file that generates the error on algebraic operations with the COMPLEX data type i.e. Pass 2, and the error is always at the same address: Pass 2 error C at address 1D5F perhaps comparing the two versions of PRO
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 7 Days 11 Hours ago by: ladislau szilagyi Hi, I tried to patch the PROFOR.COM, the message "This is Amstrad version" is not more displayed...
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 7 Days 12 Hours ago by: Josef_Möllers You can always replace at least the "jr c,l8ac8h" with two NOPs to neverever jump to the error message. BTDT() Josef () When I got my SB180FX, I wanted to add a hard disk (10MB!!!!! Yeah!") which I bought second-hand from my employe
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 7 Days 12 Hours ago by: Plo Wonderful analysis!!! Is it possible to disassemble Amstrad's PROFOR.COM and remove the version check? It would be a resounding success to be able to use it also on other platforms and versions of CP/M-80!!!
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 7 Days 14 Hours ago by: ladislau szilagyi (@Plo) Hi, it seems that the Amstrad Fortran runs only on CPM 3... A quick check of the code ( PROFOR.COM ) shows that there is code that checks this: sub_8aadh: ld c,00ch ;8aad GET CP/M VERSION call 00005h ;8aaf cp
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 7 Days 18 Hours ago by: dxforth How many DOS or CP/M applications were distributed as source only? I can think of no better way of discouraging users than by putting hurdles in front of them. Assuming the author generated a working binary for Windows or whatever, I wou
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 7 Days 23 Hours ago by: Plo There is also a version of Prospero PRO Fortran CP/m-80 specific for Amstrad CPC9512 which is distributed with the same files and which works perfectly without any compilation errors under CP/M-80. But if I try to use the compiler in my Z8
Re: ISO Morrow MD-11 distribution floppies comp.os.cpm Posted: 8 Days 6 Hours ago by: randy jackson hello, I know this is an old thread but i just installed these diskettes on my md-11, bnkbios3.spr is missing. did you try to install this as a banked system? It works but it acts strange, "device" command says its not implemented and to u
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 8 Days 15 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail RunCPM does very well, as well! Support for user areas is great! Can be integrated into a CP/NET server. The use of REAL CCP is fabulous. As to executables... source is the way. z80pack, zxcc and RunCPM all come with source.All of them sup
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 8 Days 20 Hours ago by: dxforth Speaking of executables I don't seem to see any for ZXCC (Windows). "superbly well done" must be postponed for now.
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 8 Days 21 Hours ago by: sc...@mischko.com Fred, Have you seen RunCPM yet? It might be more along the lines of a "superb" CP/M emulator. Runs on Linux, Windows, etc. It uses the native file system and includes source code. Scott On Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 2:23:58 PM UTC-7,
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 9 Days ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail Phil_G Yes... my bad. My workflow went down the tree... But... I downloaded https://www.instructables.com/Z80-mbc2-Virtual-Disks-Copying-Files/ to get a diskdefs that included the Z80 MBC-2 definition. I couldn't find it there, nor in m
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 9 Days 4 Hours ago by: Mark Lougheed +1 with regard to SuperSoft FORTRAN - For Z-80. I don't recall an 8080 targeted CP/M-80 FORTRAN compiler that had COMPLEX data types - certainly not Microsoft F-80 or Nevada FORTRAN. http://www.z80.eu/for-compiler.html
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 9 Days 4 Hours ago by: Phil G Really? the full zip downloads (32 and 64 bit) are halfway down the page. As stated on the page, the disk format matches the Z80MBC2 and I've used CPMTools on it to copy Wordstar 4, Zsid, ZSM and other stuff across. I really think you
Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 9 Days 5 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail I downloaded it... no software! (that is, no EXE files). A CP/M 3 loader, and 16 8MB disks. Format of the disks is unknown... Not anything that cpmtools has, anyway. Looked at the directories (raw)... again, nothing of interest. May be a n
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 9 Days 5 Hours ago by: Roger Hanscom On Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 4:54:59 AM UTC-7, Tom Lake wrote:
Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? comp.os.cpm Posted: 9 Days 6 Hours ago by: Phil G This is superbly well done, Hein Pragt's CP/M Z80 emulation for the PC: https://www.heinpragt.com/english/software_development/cpmbox.html Portable, so no instalation. Amazing. Phil_G
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 9 Days 10 Hours ago by: Tom Lake CP/M 68K doesn't run 8080 code. It runs Motorola 68000 code, doesn't it?
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 10 Days 6 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail The SuperSoft FORTRAN (version 3.2) supports COMPLEX as well. But I would love to see the Prospero FORTRAN "brought back to life"
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 10 Days 12 Hours ago by: Plo Thank-You!!!
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 10 Days 15 Hours ago by: ladislau szilagyi Perhaps this would help: I found a link for the PROSPERO PROFORTRAN manual : http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/language/ProsperoQlFortran77UM3.pdf Ladislau
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 10 Days 22 Hours ago by: Plo I'm going crazy!!!!! And I'm sorry because it's the only Fortran Compiler under CP/M-80 with COMPLEX data Type
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 10 Days 22 Hours ago by: Plo Strangely, the compile error "pass 2" DOES NOT APPEAR only when there is only one intrinsic function of a only complex variable i.e. Csin(z), Ccos(z), z**constant, etc. etc, when there are two or more complex operands, then the error appea
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 11 Days 2 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail And, just for fun - the error is in both COMPLEX + COMPLEX and COMPLEX + REAL. Now, I am "nerd-sniped"
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 11 Days 2 Hours ago by: Plo C Z = CMPLX(0.0, 0.0) Comment in column 1 ==>>...... C Z=CMPLX(0.0, 0.0)
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 11 Days 3 Hours ago by: Plo Why doesn't the compiler (PROFOR2) give an error with exponential complex function? In the algebraic sum Z=A+B it gives the error!! I can't understand this... PROGRAM COMPLE IMPLICIT REAL (A-H,O-Z) COMPLEX A,B,Z C Z = CMPLX(0.0,
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 11 Days 4 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail I confirm your error: Error C at address 1D5F Continue ? (Y/N) y FCHECK seems to like the compiler parts : fred@llana prospero $; cpm fcheck PROFOR2.COM - checks OK PROFOR.ERR - checks OK FORLIB.REL - checks OK
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 11 Days 4 Hours ago by: Андрей Ник� I tried to run Pro Fortran Compiler - Version zz 1.2 under several CP/M emulators: 1.cpm 2.iz-cpm 3.zxcc 4. tnylpo 5. RunCPM Initially, I decided to check the correctness of the distribution files from the point of view of the FCHECK.COM
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 11 Days 5 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail Andrey Played with this: (on CP/M emulator -- haven't tried on "real" CP/M 2.2 yet): : fred@llana prospero $; cpm profor Pro Fortran Compiler - Version zz 1.2 Copyright (C) 1983 Prospero Software Serial No: 63 Source filename - m
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 11 Days 7 Hours ago by: Phil G Gemini, who continued to make Nascom compatible boards long after the demise of Nascom, issued their GM813 processor board with RP/M which was not actually CP/M but allowed CP/M programs be run without disks using storage on tape cassette
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 11 Days 7 Hours ago by: Plo I have inserted the ProsFor.rar file which contains the complete compiler and linker files. To compile:>PROFOR and follow compiler prompts. For the LINKER :>Prolink and follow the linker requests (xxx1.rel,xxx2.rel....,FORLIB..rel) The COM
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 11 Days 11 Hours ago by: Plo Hi Andrey, I want to verify that the files I uploaded in the folder are correct...then I'll let you know...
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 12 Days 9 Hours ago by: Андрей Ник� Thanks for the link to the compiler. This compiler is less common among CP/M users and almost unavailable. It is a pity that there is no user manual for it. I was able to compile the test programs and get object files, but I could not ge
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 12 Days 21 Hours ago by: plo...@gmail.com https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ms1yidXdQswVCvs0yU63sCnLTX6HhzKr?usp=sharing
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 12 Days 22 Hours ago by: plo...@gmail.com https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ms1yidXdQswVCvs0yU63sCnLTX6HhzKr?usp=sharing
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 15 Days 2 Hours ago by: Bart Fox On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 04:29:38 -0800 (PST), Jonathan Harston <jgh@mdfs.net> wrote:
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 16 Days 2 Hours ago by: Андрей Ник� Is it possible to download this compiler from the Internet. If possible please send me a link to where I can do it. Best regards Andrey Nikitin
Emailaddress comp.os.cpm Posted: 18 Days 9 Hours ago by: ldkr...@gmail.com Bruce A. Jahnson, Will you reply to me and send your email address. Thanks. Larry
Re: Converting CPM files to DOS comp.os.cpm Posted: 18 Days 14 Hours ago by: Louise Arquette I still have 22nice etc floppies 3" which Sydex of Oregon sent me about 20 years ago. I could not use the disks because I did not have a 5 1/4 drive, nor possessed the technical knowledge to do the conversion. The data on these disks:
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 19 Days 12 Hours ago by: plo...@gmail.com Thanks Nils, But that's just my transcription error of the source. The strange thing is that in the package there is an executable file FCHECK.com which is used to check all the files in the package and when I run it, all the files are OK
Re: (desperately) Looking for Z-80 Mumps for CP/M - version 4.06 or later comp.os.cpm Posted: 19 Days 22 Hours ago by: Marcelo Dantas Hi Enrique, There's an Apple II copy around which has SETMUMPS.COM and SETGLOB.COM destroyed due to bad imaging. If you have a personal or different copy in which these programs are valid I would very much want a copy. Thanks, Marcelo.
Re: (desperately) Looking for Z-80 Mumps for CP/M - version 4.06 or later comp.os.cpm Posted: 19 Days 23 Hours ago by: Marcelo Dantas LOL ... I just saw this. That original post back in 2014 is actually the reason RunCPM exists. I wrote RunCPM exactly because I was working on recovering Z80 Mumps 4.06. Oh my ... almost 10 years. :P
Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 20 Days 11 Hours ago by: Nils M Holm It is probably unrelated, but I see two 2H with only one subsequent blank here.
STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 comp.os.cpm Posted: 20 Days 22 Hours ago by: plo...@gmail.com Hi all, I installed the Vdos emulator on my pc (Windows 10 pro 64b) and the Z80EMU emulator inside Vdos to have a CP/M-80 environment. It all works fine. I then created a directory C:\PROSPERO in Z80EMU and copied all the Prospero PRO Fortr
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 21 Days 9 Hours ago by: Jonathan Harston I worked out a simple ROM-able CP/M here: https://mdfs.net/Software/CPM/SmallSys/BIOS.ASM As written, the BDOS and BIOS is in ROM and is copied to RAM on startup, and loads the CCP from disk. Increasing the ROM size would allow you to al
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 22 Days 22 Hours ago by: Douglas Miller Actually, many of the Z80 instructions are faster, at least the block I/O and move instructions. You can get 2x performance compared to the 8080 equivalents. But it is true that many of the Z80 instruction don't save space or time, dependin
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 23 Days ago by: Thorbjørn_Ravn_Ande To ny understanding the Z80 instructions allow you primarily to save space with shorter instructions and a few more registers which are somewhat cumbersome to use, and they are not particularly faster. So, unless space is a premium for
Re: (desperately) Looking for Z-80 Mumps for CP/M - version 4.06 or later comp.os.cpm Posted: 23 Days 11 Hours ago by: Shawn Sijnstra A copy of the ADTPRO image of v4.06 would be extremely helpful and worth sharing. Something we could all benefit from and I would also enjoy a copy. I'm sure Marcelo/MockbaTheBorg could add it to the same site as well. Thanks, Shawn
Re: Looking for BYAD DS2 CP/M Card Software (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 26 Days 4 Hours ago by: Alex Oliva Yes, it's been over a year, but I wanted to finally close the loop on this thread! Though I recently sold this BYAD card, if anyone is looking to archive the software, it was recently posted here : http://bitsavers.org/pdf/byad/ They co
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 26 Days 11 Hours ago by: dxforth 8080 was itself an extension of the 8008 instruction set so the code can be said to go back to the early 70's. Floating point routines I still use today derived from an 8008 listing.
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 26 Days 12 Hours ago by: Paolo Amoroso I don't know now but this Retrocomputing StackExchange question is relevant to code written back in the day: Long Term Prevalence of 8080 Code Over Z80 Code in Software Packages https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26479/lon
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 26 Days 14 Hours ago by: CP/M User I've got better results from Hisoft Pascal when compared to Turbo Pascal. Though TP I feel is more Generic than System Specific even though both exist on numerous Z80 Systems.
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 26 Days 20 Hours ago by: dxforth Yawns? Surprised it didn't come to blows. Benchmarking can be unintuitive e.g. this from some years ago: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.cpm/c/IOLs5kCi5ic/m/mVigMsLVjlgJ (MYZ80 under WIN98 Pentium 200)
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 27 Days 4 Hours ago by: Bill Collis Thanks for replying Douglas. You clearly understand some of the difficulties involved. Let me emphasize that I already have an almost working CP/M 1 like system (with some CP/M 2 additions) running in about 3 kB of initialized memory.
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 27 Days 4 Hours ago by: Roger Hanscom Hi Bill, Another thing to think about is that there are emulators that only run 8080 code. For example, COM2X that runs with CP/M 68K. I treasure applications that are written for the 8080. They are usable with CP/M 68K and provide addi
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 27 Days 5 Hours ago by: Steve Nickolas Certainly the Nabu shadows its ROM and finishes running the bootloader out of the RAM (as far as CP/M machines go). -uso.
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 27 Days 8 Hours ago by: Douglas Miller Yes, there is a conceptual difference between actually running from ROM and using ROM as offline, non-volatile, storage. But there were plenty of retro systems that used ROM this way, where they would copy the ROM into RAM and then unmap th
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 27 Days 10 Hours ago by: Mark Ogden I am aware of several people with an Intel MDS (8080/8085), which was the reference machine for CP/M and of course ISIS II. I personally now use emulators. CPMplus was available on ROM https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Graduate_Software an
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 27 Days 20 Hours ago by: dxforth The Z80 is young? 8080 1974 Z80 1976 8085 1976 I would ask who is the application for. If CP/M users then it's never a great idea to limit the audience. A memorable moment was getting an email from a user excited to have found an app
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 27 Days 21 Hours ago by: Douglas Miller As far as ROMable CP/M, I've not heard of any. There are some difficulties, and 4K is probably impossible. There was a "proof of concept" version of CP/NET (CP/NOS) made to fit in a 4K ROM. That effort does show what would need to be done t
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 27 Days 22 Hours ago by: Randy McLaughlin Ever heard of the 8800c? https://deramp.com/altair_8800c.html I have one. Randy
Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread) comp.os.cpm Posted: 27 Days 23 Hours ago by: Captain Nemo There's still a large number of TRS-80 Model 100/102 users out there (80C85 CPU). I don't know about the 8080, though. There are a bunch of retro computer systems (mostly solder-it-yourself) that use either a Z80 or an 8085.
Some questions which show my age ... comp.os.cpm Posted: 1 Month ago by: Bill Collis Does anyone still use the old 8080 / 8085? Is there any point writing software especially to run on these old processors (as opposed to Z80 family)? Is there a ROMable version of CP/M? (PCP/M?). If not, is anyone interested in collabora

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 1 Hour 58 Minutes ago by: Plo

I don't know him personally, but I can tell you that he is a very knowledgeable and professional person in machine language programming and high level languages...

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 2 Hours 50 Minutes ago by: Mark Lougheed

Pardon me for the brief diversion... Martin Hepperle? THE Martin Hepperle of JavaFoil and JavaProp fame, legend and song? My hat is off! MDL

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 3 Hours 38 Minutes ago by: Plo

Hi all, finally the problem is solved...The member of these two forums, Martin Hepperle, found a brilliant and perfectly working solution, here are the two links to the solution... https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/strange-compiler

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 12 Hours 41 Minutes ago by: Mark Ogden

I posted the modifications for zxcc to run under windows sometime ago on Tony Nicholson's github site https://github.com/agn453/ZXCC The basic steps to build are 1) clone the github repository. Note, an updated of Hitech C is also availabl

Re: Altair BASIC Source Code

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 1 Day 10 Hours ago by: Richard L. Hamilton

I don't know about the earliest Gates/Microsoft BASIC, but by the time of what came with my Osborne 1, it was an interpreter but tokenized, where each reserved word was a byte with the high order bit on, and some other things that intern

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 2 Days 20 Hours ago by: dxforth

So a 'power user' is one who manages to create a working ZXCC Windows binary from source and uploads it to the repository. Any takers?

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 2 Days 21 Hours ago by: dott.Piergiorgio

this emu is intended for the end-user (or luser ?) or a power user/hacker ? for the latter category, the source distribution is the main one.. Best regards from Italy, dott. Piergiorgio.

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 7 Days 2 Hours ago by: Plo

Or is this address referred to the MAP file of the relocatable obj file?

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 7 Days 2 Hours ago by: Plo

Since it is the PROFOR2.com file that generates the error on algebraic operations with the COMPLEX data type i.e. Pass 2, and the error is always at the same address: Pass 2 error C at address 1D5F perhaps comparing the two versions of PRO

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 7 Days 11 Hours ago by: ladislau szilagyi

Hi, I tried to patch the PROFOR.COM, the message "This is Amstrad version" is not more displayed...

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 7 Days 12 Hours ago by: Josef_Möllers

You can always replace at least the "jr c,l8ac8h" with two NOPs to neverever jump to the error message. BTDT(*) Josef (*) When I got my SB180FX, I wanted to add a hard disk (10MB!!!!! Yeah!") which I bought second-hand from my employe

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 7 Days 12 Hours ago by: Plo

Wonderful analysis!!! Is it possible to disassemble Amstrad's PROFOR.COM and remove the version check? It would be a resounding success to be able to use it also on other platforms and versions of CP/M-80!!!

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 7 Days 14 Hours ago by: ladislau szilagyi

(@Plo) Hi, it seems that the Amstrad Fortran runs only on CPM 3... A quick check of the code ( PROFOR.COM ) shows that there is code that checks this: sub_8aadh: ld c,00ch ;8aad GET CP/M VERSION call 00005h ;8aaf cp

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 7 Days 18 Hours ago by: dxforth

How many DOS or CP/M applications were distributed as source only? I can think of no better way of discouraging users than by putting hurdles in front of them. Assuming the author generated a working binary for Windows or whatever, I wou

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 7 Days 23 Hours ago by: Plo

There is also a version of Prospero PRO Fortran CP/m-80 specific for Amstrad CPC9512 which is distributed with the same files and which works perfectly without any compilation errors under CP/M-80. But if I try to use the compiler in my Z8

Re: ISO Morrow MD-11 distribution floppies

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 8 Days 6 Hours ago by: randy jackson

hello, I know this is an old thread but i just installed these diskettes on my md-11, bnkbios3.spr is missing. did you try to install this as a banked system? It works but it acts strange, "device" command says its not implemented and to u

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 8 Days 15 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail

RunCPM does very well, as well! Support for user areas is great! Can be integrated into a CP/NET server. The use of REAL CCP is fabulous. As to executables... source is the way. z80pack, zxcc and RunCPM all come with source.All of them sup

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 8 Days 20 Hours ago by: dxforth

Speaking of executables I don't seem to see any for ZXCC (Windows). "superbly well done" must be postponed for now.

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

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Posted: 8 Days 21 Hours ago by: sc...@mischko.com

Fred, Have you seen RunCPM yet? It might be more along the lines of a "superb" CP/M emulator. Runs on Linux, Windows, etc. It uses the native file system and includes source code. Scott On Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 2:23:58 PM UTC-7,

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail

Phil_G Yes... my bad. My workflow went down the tree... But... I downloaded https://www.instructables.com/Z80-mbc2-Virtual-Disks-Copying-Files/ to get a diskdefs that included the Z80 MBC-2 definition. I couldn't find it there, nor in m

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 4 Hours ago by: Mark Lougheed

+1 with regard to SuperSoft FORTRAN - For Z-80. I don't recall an 8080 targeted CP/M-80 FORTRAN compiler that had COMPLEX data types - certainly not Microsoft F-80 or Nevada FORTRAN. http://www.z80.eu/for-compiler.html

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 4 Hours ago by: Phil G

Really? the full zip downloads (32 and 64 bit) are halfway down the page. As stated on the page, the disk format matches the Z80MBC2 and I've used CPMTools on it to copy Wordstar 4, Zsid, ZSM and other stuff across. I really think you

Re: Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows? (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 5 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail

I downloaded it... no software! (that is, no EXE files). A CP/M 3 loader, and 16 8MB disks. Format of the disks is unknown... Not anything that cpmtools has, anyway. Looked at the directories (raw)... again, nothing of interest. May be a n

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 5 Hours ago by: Roger Hanscom

On Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 4:54:59 AM UTC-7, Tom Lake wrote:

Has everyone seen Hein Praagt's Z80 CP/M emu for Windows?

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 9 Days 6 Hours ago by: Phil G

This is superbly well done, Hein Pragt's CP/M Z80 emulation for the PC: https://www.heinpragt.com/english/software_development/cpmbox.html Portable, so no instalation. Amazing. Phil_G

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 10 Hours ago by: Tom Lake

CP/M 68K doesn't run 8080 code. It runs Motorola 68000 code, doesn't it?

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 6 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail

The SuperSoft FORTRAN (version 3.2) supports COMPLEX as well. But I would love to see the Prospero FORTRAN "brought back to life"

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 12 Hours ago by: Plo

Thank-You!!!

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 15 Hours ago by: ladislau szilagyi

Perhaps this would help: I found a link for the PROSPERO PROFORTRAN manual : http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/language/ProsperoQlFortran77UM3.pdf Ladislau

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 22 Hours ago by: Plo

I'm going crazy!!!!! And I'm sorry because it's the only Fortran Compiler under CP/M-80 with COMPLEX data Type

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 22 Hours ago by: Plo

Strangely, the compile error "pass 2" DOES NOT APPEAR only when there is only one intrinsic function of a only complex variable i.e. Csin(z), Ccos(z), z**constant, etc. etc, when there are two or more complex operands, then the error appea

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 2 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail

And, just for fun - the error is in both COMPLEX + COMPLEX *and* COMPLEX + REAL. Now, I am "nerd-sniped"

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 2 Hours ago by: Plo

C Z = CMPLX(0.0, 0.0) Comment in column 1 ==>>...... C Z=CMPLX(0.0, 0.0)

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 3 Hours ago by: Plo

Why doesn't the compiler (PROFOR2) give an error with exponential complex function? In the algebraic sum Z=A+B it gives the error!! I can't understand this... PROGRAM COMPLE IMPLICIT REAL (A-H,O-Z) COMPLEX A,B,Z C Z = CMPLX(0.0,

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 4 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail

I confirm your error: Error C at address 1D5F Continue ? (Y/N) y FCHECK seems to like the compiler parts : fred@llana prospero $; cpm fcheck PROFOR2.COM - checks OK PROFOR.ERR - checks OK FORLIB.REL - checks OK

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 4 Hours ago by: Андрей Ник�

I tried to run Pro Fortran Compiler - Version zz 1.2 under several CP/M emulators: 1.cpm 2.iz-cpm 3.zxcc 4. tnylpo 5. RunCPM Initially, I decided to check the correctness of the distribution files from the point of view of the FCHECK.COM

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 5 Hours ago by: fridtjof.ma...@gmail

Andrey Played with this: (on CP/M emulator -- haven't tried on "real" CP/M 2.2 yet): : fred@llana prospero $; cpm profor Pro Fortran Compiler - Version zz 1.2 Copyright (C) 1983 Prospero Software Serial No: 63 Source filename - m

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 7 Hours ago by: Phil G

Gemini, who continued to make Nascom compatible boards long after the demise of Nascom, issued their GM813 processor board with RP/M which was not actually CP/M but allowed CP/M programs be run without disks using storage on tape cassette

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 7 Hours ago by: Plo

I have inserted the ProsFor.rar file which contains the complete compiler and linker files. To compile:>PROFOR and follow compiler prompts. For the LINKER :>Prolink and follow the linker requests (xxx1.rel,xxx2.rel....,FORLIB..rel) The COM

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 11 Hours ago by: Plo

Hi Andrey, I want to verify that the files I uploaded in the folder are correct...then I'll let you know...

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days 9 Hours ago by: Андрей Ник�

Thanks for the link to the compiler. This compiler is less common among CP/M users and almost unavailable. It is a pity that there is no user manual for it. I was able to compile the test programs and get object files, but I could not ge

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days 21 Hours ago by: plo...@gmail.com

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ms1yidXdQswVCvs0yU63sCnLTX6HhzKr?usp=sharing

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days 22 Hours ago by: plo...@gmail.com

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ms1yidXdQswVCvs0yU63sCnLTX6HhzKr?usp=sharing

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 15 Days 2 Hours ago by: Bart Fox

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 04:29:38 -0800 (PST), Jonathan Harston <jgh@mdfs.net> wrote:

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 16 Days 2 Hours ago by: Андрей Ник�

Is it possible to download this compiler from the Internet. If possible please send me a link to where I can do it. Best regards Andrey Nikitin

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Posted: 18 Days 9 Hours ago by: ldkr...@gmail.com

Bruce A. Jahnson, Will you reply to me and send your email address. Thanks. Larry

Re: Converting CPM files to DOS

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Posted: 18 Days 14 Hours ago by: Louise Arquette

I still have 22nice etc floppies 3" which Sydex of Oregon sent me about 20 years ago. I could not use the disks because I did not have a 5 1/4 drive, nor possessed the technical knowledge to do the conversion. The data on these disks:

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 12 Hours ago by: plo...@gmail.com

Thanks Nils, But that's just my transcription error of the source. The strange thing is that in the package there is an executable file FCHECK.com which is used to check all the files in the package and when I run it, all the files are OK

Re: (desperately) Looking for Z-80 Mumps for CP/M - version 4.06 or later

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Posted: 19 Days 22 Hours ago by: Marcelo Dantas

Hi Enrique, There's an Apple II copy around which has SETMUMPS.COM and SETGLOB.COM destroyed due to bad imaging. If you have a personal or different copy in which these programs are valid I would very much want a copy. Thanks, Marcelo.

Re: (desperately) Looking for Z-80 Mumps for CP/M - version 4.06 or later

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Posted: 19 Days 23 Hours ago by: Marcelo Dantas

LOL ... I just saw this. That original post back in 2014 is actually the reason RunCPM exists. I wrote RunCPM exactly because I was working on recovering Z80 Mumps 4.06. Oh my ... almost 10 years. :P

Re: STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80 (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 11 Hours ago by: Nils M Holm

It is probably unrelated, but I see two 2H with only one subsequent blank here.

STRANGE COMPILER ERROR PROSPERO FORTRAN CP/M-80

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Posted: 20 Days 22 Hours ago by: plo...@gmail.com

Hi all, I installed the Vdos emulator on my pc (Windows 10 pro 64b) and the Z80EMU emulator inside Vdos to have a CP/M-80 environment. It all works fine. I then created a directory C:\PROSPERO in Z80EMU and copied all the Prospero PRO Fortr

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 21 Days 9 Hours ago by: Jonathan Harston

I worked out a simple ROM-able CP/M here: https://mdfs.net/Software/CPM/SmallSys/BIOS.ASM As written, the BDOS and BIOS is in ROM and is copied to RAM on startup, and loads the CCP from disk. Increasing the ROM size would allow you to al

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 22 Days 22 Hours ago by: Douglas Miller

Actually, many of the Z80 instructions are faster, at least the block I/O and move instructions. You can get 2x performance compared to the 8080 equivalents. But it is true that many of the Z80 instruction don't save space or time, dependin

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 23 Days ago by: Thorbjørn_Ravn_Ande

To ny understanding the Z80 instructions allow you primarily to save space with shorter instructions and a few more registers which are somewhat cumbersome to use, and they are not particularly faster. So, unless space is a premium for

Re: (desperately) Looking for Z-80 Mumps for CP/M - version 4.06 or later

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Posted: 23 Days 11 Hours ago by: Shawn Sijnstra

A copy of the ADTPRO image of v4.06 would be extremely helpful and worth sharing. Something we could all benefit from and I would also enjoy a copy. I'm sure Marcelo/MockbaTheBorg could add it to the same site as well. Thanks, Shawn

Re: Looking for BYAD DS2 CP/M Card Software (thread)

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Posted: 26 Days 4 Hours ago by: Alex Oliva

Yes, it's been over a year, but I wanted to finally close the loop on this thread! Though I recently sold this BYAD card, if anyone is looking to archive the software, it was recently posted here : http://bitsavers.org/pdf/byad/ They co

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 26 Days 11 Hours ago by: dxforth

8080 was itself an extension of the 8008 instruction set so the code can be said to go back to the early 70's. Floating point routines I still use today derived from an 8008 listing.

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 26 Days 12 Hours ago by: Paolo Amoroso

I don't know now but this Retrocomputing StackExchange question is relevant to code written back in the day: Long Term Prevalence of 8080 Code Over Z80 Code in Software Packages https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/26479/lon

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 26 Days 14 Hours ago by: CP/M User

I've got better results from Hisoft Pascal when compared to Turbo Pascal. Though TP I feel is more Generic than System Specific even though both exist on numerous Z80 Systems.

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 26 Days 20 Hours ago by: dxforth

Yawns? Surprised it didn't come to blows. Benchmarking can be unintuitive e.g. this from some years ago: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.cpm/c/IOLs5kCi5ic/m/mVigMsLVjlgJ (MYZ80 under WIN98 Pentium 200)

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 4 Hours ago by: Bill Collis

Thanks for replying Douglas. You clearly understand some of the difficulties involved. Let me emphasize that I already have an almost working CP/M 1 like system (with some CP/M 2 additions) running in about 3 kB of initialized memory.

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 4 Hours ago by: Roger Hanscom

Hi Bill, Another thing to think about is that there are emulators that only run 8080 code. For example, COM2X that runs with CP/M 68K. I treasure applications that are written for the 8080. They are usable with CP/M 68K and provide addi

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 5 Hours ago by: Steve Nickolas

Certainly the Nabu shadows its ROM and finishes running the bootloader out of the RAM (as far as CP/M machines go). -uso.

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 8 Hours ago by: Douglas Miller

Yes, there is a conceptual difference between actually running from ROM and using ROM as offline, non-volatile, storage. But there were plenty of retro systems that used ROM this way, where they would copy the ROM into RAM and then unmap th

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 10 Hours ago by: Mark Ogden

I am aware of several people with an Intel MDS (8080/8085), which was the reference machine for CP/M and of course ISIS II. I personally now use emulators. CPMplus was available on ROM https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Graduate_Software an

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 20 Hours ago by: dxforth

The Z80 is young? 8080 1974 Z80 1976 8085 1976 I would ask who is the application for. If CP/M users then it's never a great idea to limit the audience. A memorable moment was getting an email from a user excited to have found an app

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 27 Days 21 Hours ago by: Douglas Miller

As far as ROMable CP/M, I've not heard of any. There are some difficulties, and 4K is probably impossible. There was a "proof of concept" version of CP/NET (CP/NOS) made to fit in a 4K ROM. That effort does show what would need to be done t

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 27 Days 22 Hours ago by: Randy McLaughlin

Ever heard of the 8800c? https://deramp.com/altair_8800c.html I have one. Randy

Re: Some questions which show my age ... (thread)

comp.os.cpm

Posted: 27 Days 23 Hours ago by: Captain Nemo

There's still a large number of TRS-80 Model 100/102 users out there (80C85 CPU). I don't know about the 8080, though. There are a bunch of retro computer systems (mostly solder-it-yourself) that use either a Z80 or an 8085.

Some questions which show my age ...

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Posted: 1 Month ago by: Bill Collis

Does anyone still use the old 8080 / 8085? Is there any point writing software especially to run on these old processors (as opposed to Z80 family)? Is there a ROMable version of CP/M? (PCP/M?). If not, is anyone interested in collabora

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