ScuzzBlog: Diaries August 2017
Entry 9th August 2017: Post: 1
CPM on the Amiga
Hi
Just been advised of a CP/M Emulator for the Amiga
http://aminet.net/search?query=AmigaZ80
http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/AmigaZ80
[ below not my words ]
This is the best CP/M ver. 2.2 emulator for Amiga computers. It is run
from the CLI (Command Line Interface) shell.
There are CPU-specific versions of the program for the 68000, 68010, 68020,
68030, 68040 CPUs, & a generic version (AMIGAZ80.ALL). If you have a 68060
accelerator, use the 68040-specific CPU version.
The program is written in C, so don't expect assembler execution speeds.
I believe that the author, Bill Haygood told me that the screen format
this CP/M emulator uses is an ADM3 (?) or something like that. It's definitely
not using Osborne screen control characters. I asked him about that. Just
something to keep in mind when installing WordStar 4.0 or dBase 2.43*, both
of which I legally own, under this emulator.
A Little History Lesson:
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This is not the latest version of AmigaZ80. I believe Bill Haygood told
me that he had eventually stopped at a version that ran CP/M 3.0 (aka: CP/M
Plus), but had lost all sources. This is the version I got from David A. J.
McGlone of Lambda Software. David used to publish "The Z-Letter", a CP/M
newsletter. David was selling this AmigaZ80 emulator at the time. I believe
that AmigaZ80 was reviewed in issue #36 of David's Z-Letter. That's one of
the few
issues of the Z-Letter that I don't have. This is my own personal version I
received at the time in exchange for sending him the MS-DOS version of SpellBinder
in a swap, which was sometime in the late 1990s.
scuzz
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