Re: S-100 68K CPU board status

[lynchaj <lyn...@yahoo.com>]

Hi John!  The Wilcox book describes how he got CP/M-68K running on his
S-100 68K CPU board with a Disk1A floppy controller.

Basically it was a similar approach.  He used TUTOR 1.3 to load a
bootstrap loader which in turn loaded a CP/M-68K binary image into RAM
for execution.

Please see chapter 14.3 for his approach.  Thanks and have a nice day!

Andrew Lynch

On Dec 27, 5:13 pm, "John Monahan" <mon...@vitasoft.org> wrote:
> My first choice would definitely be using the Godbout 68K image and splicing
> in a BIOS written in assembly. The Godbout/CompuPro systems we're
> outstanding. The documentation was great with great examples. That would be
> my first choice. It would be real easy to splice a BIOS into the very simple
> monitor I wrote,  see here:-
>
> http://s100computers.com/Software%20Folder/68000%20Monitor/68000%20Mo...
> tm
>
> As to a windows based 68K assembler. I would highly recommendhttp://www.easy68k.com/
>
> It is just fantastic for a job like this.
>
> John Monahan Ph.D
> mon...@vitasoft.org
>
>
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> On 12/27/2011 03:28 PM, lynchaj wrote:
> > Woof!  OK, that's weird.
>
> > My guess is Alcyon C compiler is really old and predates much of the
> > now more standardized C conventions.
>
> > I've never seen or heard of anything like you just described.  This
> > must be really obscure stuff.
>
> > Here is a post on comp.os.cpm which seems to discuss the unnamed
> > structs
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.cpm/msg/398560ac7ef058b6
>
> > Forgive my ignorance but do you think the Alcyon C compiler is capable
> > of successfully compiling the CP/M-68K sources?
>
> > Thanks and have a nice day!
>
> > Andrew Lynch
>
> Ha. Okay, so I'm not alone! :)
>
> Yes, I would say almost certainly it should be able to compile the CP/M-68K
> sources, as it appears to be the exact compiler used to compile them
> originally.
>
> --Mike
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