Hi
As I mentioned earlier, I have a Forth that runs standalone
on hard sectored. Since it is standalone, I've used it to
make exact copies of other disk. I've done things like changing
the interleaving to make about a 10X improvement in load
speeds for many programs.
It has been a while since I had the machine running. I can
fire it up and check what I have. The only issue I have for
making copies for others is the media. I only have a few
hard sectored disk. For some reason, I thought that disk
formats would last at least as long as 33 lp records. I
didn't realize at the time that media was being obsoleted
as fast as it was produced. I know better now.
Anyway, if I can get it all running, I'll make copies
if someone supplies media.
Dwight
>From: acme_at_ao.net
>
>Don --
>
>Do you have the means to copy such a diskette? I have a set of the original
>distribution diskettes here, and last time I checked the boot diskette was
>good.
>
>Later --
>
>Glen
>0/0
>
>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jason J. Gullickson wrote:
>> > > On that note, if any of you know where I could find a copy of CPM and a
>> > > compatible C compiler on hard-sectored disks, that would be greeeaaat,
>> > > yeah.
>> >
>> > Don Maslin can probably help you with the CP/M boot disk. But you are
>> > going to have to immediately come up with software for serial port file
>> > transfer, since that is the only PRACTICAL way to transfer files to or
>> > from hard-sectored disks.
>>
>> I wish that I could, Fred. Unfortunately, I do not have a hard
>> sectored boot disk for the H89 to make a copy from so I am
>> stumped.
>> - don
>>
>> > There have been several C compilers for CP/M. Aztec/Manx is probably the
>> > best, but the most popular was Zolman's BDS C. Good news! As of 6 months
>> > ago, BDS C became public domain! :
>> >
>> > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Rich Beaudry wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Don't know how many of you are on comp.os.cpm, but in case you missed
>> > it,
>> > > Leor Zolman has decided to release the full retail package of BDS C,
>> > > including *ALL* source code (compiler as well!) to the Public Domain.
>> > >
>> > > http://www.bdsoft.com/resources.html#bdsc
>> > >
>> > > Check it out!
>> > >
>> > > Rich B.
Received on Tue Apr 01 2003 - 12:09:00 BST