That sounds great Dave. This will be of immense help to S100 beginners in getting a system up
and running so that they can start to exploring the software/operation side of things.
Explicit board setup instructions should be included for the minimal configuration (jumpers).
Minimal config being Z80 master, IDE, either Serial IO or Propeller console boards, and some kind
of RAM board.
We should write up a small beginner's manual to go with this. In fact, I've been thinking that there
is a real need for some more organized documentation on all the boards (both S100 & ECB), such
as manuals of some sort. It would really help the learning curve for newcomers.
Ed
On Friday, June 20, 2014 9:44:44 AM UTC-5, yoda wrote:
Gary
I would discourage doing this - I hope to have 4 images up this weekend that will solve the problem. The ones John has have the holes in the filesystem which we have eliminated and having both flavors out there is going to cause a lot of confusion. I plan to publish as a starter the following 4 images. Banked with serial, Banked with prop console, Non-Banked with serial and Non-Banked with prop console. These images will support an A and B IDE drive and will have the standard binaries found in CPM3 plus maybe some other goodies. These images can be copied to a CF with win image as you suggest or dd if you use Linux or Mac. This will allow people to get running very quickly. I will follow this up with sources and general instruction on how to build, modify the images and source to add new drivers, etc. I need to do some cleanup of the sources and procedures for building and modifying things - that is going to take me a week or so because I want to do testing of the code. The four images I put up will have booted on my machine (I hope - I have booted the serial ones but need to finish off getting my prop console up tonight so I can test the others).
Dave
On Friday, June 20, 2014 9:28:59 AM UTC-5, Gary Kaufman wrote:
At least a temporary solution:
I placed an image of the compact flash that John kindly provided on my
website at:
http://www.the-planet.org/z80/CPM3_0.zip
Inside the .zip is a single file CPM3_0.vhd
This can be written to a 4gb Compact Flash using winimage from
http://www.winimage.com/
It is originally from a Kingston 4gb card, but I was also able to write
it to two other 4gb cards successfully.
The 4gb Kingston cards that worked properly here (and for John) have a
white flower on the front, see ebay 291133013316 (newegg) or
371050627513 (adorama) about $9 each
Winimage runs under windows7 but needs to run as administrator. My
usb--> compact flash is F:
under Disk, choose "use disk F:"
then Disk, "Restore Virtual Hard Drive image on physical drive"
From John's notes to me:
"I have CPM3 (banked 128K) on each of the other two CF cards, in user
group 0. In user group 1 are CPM86 files in case you need them later.
Note there are a number of SYS files in user group 0 for CPM3 & CPM86.
They will not be visible with DIR or DD. I assume my know how to handle
SYS files. "
I hope this provides a way for a few of you to get up and running easily.
It's wonderful to see that A> prompt!
- Gary