On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Neil Cherry wrote:
> Now comes the questions, I don't know the commands for CPM does anyone know
> of a good intro to ccp? I'm hoping to get a book on CP/M soon. In the mean
> I've backed up the roms and I'm about to investigate upgrading to ZsDOS
> (or something similar). I'm hoping the ATR8000 will be able to access the
> Atari 800 drives, that way I can hook it up to my Linux box and it can act
> as a large floppy drive. I know it confusing but it really does work.
Nope, the way it works is that the Atari 800 is actually a dumb terminal
to the ATR8000. In fact, you can plug just about anything into the
ATR-8000 and use it as your CP/M "host". The ATR-8000 has it's own disk
drive ports. It can't use the Atari disk drives (without some serious
modifications).
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