[Coco] CP/M emulator for OS9/6809

Michael Rowen mike at borncoco.com
Sun Apr 27 05:52:49 EDT 2014


Amazing stuff, Luis! I look forward to trying it out. Keep up the good work!







"Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I finished my CP/M emulator for OS-9 level 2. Now it will run Z-80 code as
>well. Virtually any software for VT-52 or Kaypro2 terminals will run on it.
>
>Included in the files are the disk images and the source code in case
>you're interested how this emulator was designed. I had to extreme optimize
>it to be a small code instead of a fastest one. The entire CP/M emulator
>with Z-80 and BDOS takes only 7k. This gives me 56k available to run CP/M
>software. MBasic will show 30k available for programs.
>
>You will find some software included that was taken from pcsauro or cp/m
>old archives. To run dbaseII properly you must run it using Kaypro2
>terminal:
>
>cpm -k dbase.com
>
>For the others the VT-52 default terminal will work fine. The mbasic 8.3
>file name bug was fixed.
>
>in the games.os9 image you will find the zork and now The Hitchhiker's
>Guide to the Galaxy game. I must confess now I did this entire emulator
>only to be able to run this game in 80 columns on OS-9 :) it's a little
>slow but perfectly playable. You can play, save your game, restore later
>and do it multitasking with any other OS-9 program. If it wasn't for the
>speed I would say it's better than CP/M itself :)
>
>Enjoy the new world just opened to OS-9 :D
>Welcome to seamless CP/M integration.
>
>Files:
>https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/dropbox/cpm.zip?attredirects=0&d=1
>
>
>
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