CP/M Porting in a Few Hours
If you’ve ever wanted to watch someone bring CP/M up on a new system and you have a couple of hours to spare, check out the recorded live stream of …read more Continue reading CP/M Porting in a Few Hours
Category Archives: CP/M
CP/M 6502-Style
There are projects you create to share with the world, but there are also those you do just because you want something for yourself. Lucky for us, [Dietrich-L]’s 30-year-long project …read more Continue reading CP/M 6502-Style
Is This The Smallest CP/M Machine Ever?
If you had an office word processor in the late 1970s, the chances are it ran Digital Research’s CP/M operating system. IBM went for Microsoft in the 1980s and the …read more Continue reading Is This The Smallest CP/M Machine Ever?
Modular Z80 Really Racks Up the Retrocomputer Cred
Very few retrocomputing projects are anything other than a labor of love. There’s really no practical reason to build a computer that is woefully inadequate for just about any task …read more Continue reading Modular Z80 Really Racks Up the Retrocomputer Cred
CP/M Is Now Freer Than It Was
It’s easy to think of the earlier history of desktop computing operating systems in terms of DOS, Windows, and Mac OS with maybe a bit of AmigaOS, TOS, or RiscOS …read more Continue reading CP/M Is Now Freer Than It Was
Retro Serial Terminal Uses Modern Chips to Get CP/M Machine Talking
The hobbyists of the early days of the home computer era worked wonders with the comparatively primitive chips of the day, and what couldn’t be accomplished with a Z80 or …read more Continue reading Retro Serial Terminal Uses Modern Chips to Get CP/M Machine Talking
CRISS CP/M Provides Modern Hardware for a Classic OS
Today you might choose run Windows, Linux, MacOS or some other OS on your computer. Back in the 1980s however, you generally had little choice: a certain home computer came …read more Continue reading CRISS CP/M Provides Modern Hardware for a Classic OS
Translate Your CP/M Code to 8086, And Leave The 1970s Behind!
“Bring our home computing out of the 1970s and into the 1980s and beyond” is the irresistible promise made by the creator of 8088ify, a piece of software which translates …read more Continue reading Translate Your CP/M Code to 8086, And Leave The 1970s Behind!
Apple Gets CP/M
In case you wanted to run WordStar on your Mac, [Tom Harte] offers CP/M for OS/X, and it looks like it would be a lot of fun. Of course you …read more Continue reading Apple Gets CP/M
This Z80 Computer Bootstraps Itself
[Plasmode] has created several Z80-compatible board designs, at least four of them using the oddball Z280. The Z280 was a special variant of a Z80 that could bootstrap itself with no external PROM, making it ideal for anyone trying to build a system on a breadboard. According to his post, …read more