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Re: [N8VEM-S100:670] CP/M-68 on the ECB mini-M68k CPU board



John (and other 68K fans),

I've located a bunch of old CP/M-68K stuff recently, including CP/M-68K v 1.3, 
FORTH and 68K tiny BASIC. Is there a central listing of the software you already 
have? Almost everything is on 8" disk which I should be able to read but I don't 
have a system set up currently. 


Hopefully, moving to the S100 68K board should be pretty easy from here. 

Great work!

Jack



----- Original Message ----
> From: John Coffman <john...@gmail.com>
> To: N8VEM <n8...@googlegroups.com>; n8vem...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Tue, January 17, 2012 10:38:50 AM
> Subject: [N8VEM-S100:670] CP/M-68 on the ECB mini-M68k CPU board
> 
> Motorola 68000 enthusiasts:
> 
> CP/M-68 is working well on the ECB mini-M68k  CPU board, supported by the 
>MF/PIC board for serial I/O and IDE interface  (8255).  The attached screen 
>shows:
> 
>     F:  the  ROMdisk, with just a couple of utilities
>     B:  the RAMdisk,  1Mb.  I'm glad I put 2Mb of SRAM on the CPU board.  Half 
>is for CP/M,  and the other half is its RAMdisk.
>     C:  an 8Mb CP/M  partition on a CF card.  The photo shows a different, 
>smaller CF  card.
> 
> This CP/M supports up to 16 drives -- as soon as I hook the disk  
>initialization to the CF card partition table.
> 
> Although this is CP/M 1.2,  the binary utilities are from an extensive 
>collection from Douglas.  The  release notes indicate that 1.3 was mostly bug 
>fixes to utility  programs.
> 
> The boot process still needs streamlining, and a utility for  setting up the 
>partitions on IDE disks (i.e., CF cards) needs to be  written.
> 
> What is running now really has the feel of  CP/M.
> 
> --John
> 
> 
>