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Re: Read 5.25" DOS floppies on A1200 possible?
« on: August 08, 2017, 11:31:16 PM »
Have you tried the AmigaZ80 program from Aminet for CP/M on the Amiga?  I uploaded it and have been working on & off with getting many programs onto the "CP/M disk" to run & eventually replace AmigaZ80 on Aminet with a new version with lots of CP/M programs to run, pre-loaded.
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Re: Read 5.25" DOS floppies on A1200 possible?
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2017, 11:38:07 PM »
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In the post yesterday I received a fresh copy of CP/M for the C128. Machine boots just fine with the new disk. Never anticipated anything otherwise. For me it is the whole locking the disk into place and working it. Great tool I have to say. I have twin drives on the Apple and BBC and whilst the BBC works without fault I have to use a small postcard under the floppy on the Apple to get it to work. Bit of a fiddle but fine all the same. On the Checkmate the drive has illuminating LED showing the tracks speed. They truly are a wonderful bit of retro magic.


Have you tried the AmigaZ80 program from Aminet for CP/M on the Amiga?  I uploaded it and have been working on & off with getting many programs onto the "CP/M disk" to run & eventually replace it with the "CP/M disk" file having many CP/M programs pre-loaded segregated by each "disk" grouping different applications & USER areas grouping different programs within the same application.
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Re: Read 5.25" DOS floppies on A1200 possible?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2017, 10:39:56 PM »
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I had a quick look at it today. Didn't really understand this line ' Copy the appropriate CPU version into that newly created directory AS:Z80. ' The new directory is called CPM2.2 and the appropriate Z80, well I'm 040 so I go with that... but where and what is AS:Z80 ? I'll read all the stuff again. Struggling to see how this would boot without a command tool in C and it says nothing about copying anything to C and I'm in the main OS 3.9. I can see the assign from that line but just need help with firing up the basic Z80 can't see how that is triggered. If you know then maybe you could help. Ta .


Well, duh, to begin with:
1) Yes, I even misspelled Installation, leaving out the "s"
2) No, no, no, not directory "AS:", but in step "2)" it states: COPY the appropriate CPU version into that newly created directory (from step 1, "Work:Emulators/CPM2.2").  So for you, with a 68040, that would be the amigaz80.040 file that would be copied over as "Z80".
3) Copy over the files: Authors.README, disk.cpm, menu, Uploaders.README, Uploaders.README.info, & z80.ram into directory Work:Emulators/CPM2.2
« Last Edit: August 09, 2017, 10:43:31 PM by Rabbi »
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Computer used:     Amiga A1200 (NTSC version) with 128 MB ...