25 Feb
2010
25 Feb
'10
11:03 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Ethan Dicks wrote:
For machine language on TRS80, look at TBUG, and Allen Gelder's
enhancements thereto.
For assembly, look at Roy Soltoff's assembler
For disk sector work, look at Superzap from NEWDOS80.
For disk viewing below the sector level, look at Roxton Baker's? TRAKCESS.
For disk format conversion, look at Mike Gingel's programs
For spreadsheets: VISICALC (avail from RS)
For wordprocessing, Michael Shrayer's ELECTRIC PENCIL and RS's SCRIPSIT
So if I understand this right, you'd have to
recompile any application
source specifically _for_ this environment?
that kinda takes away the benefits of CP/M
I think my Model I expansion chassis has some form of
density doubler
sandwich (and a serial port mod, too).
The serial port was an accessory board, not a mod, with its own dedicated
compartment and connectors.
There were, of course, numerous mods to the "RS232" ("stands for Radio
Shack 232"!) board to try to improve it's contact with it's connector.
There was also some misinformation before the serial port was released,
that that was a general purpose "expansion port for things such as S100
interface"
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Interesting to know now. When I was in High School, we had one Model
That would be
why I never noticed the difference - for that "class", I
stuck to BASIC (I was doing assembly on my C-64 at home, but not at
school). Thanks for the informative responses. I'll
probably just stick with
some flavor of TRSDOS on the Tandy hardware and jump over to a Kaypro
or S-100 box for CP/M.
A good decision. But you should also try out the various premium TRSDOS
derivatives (NEWDOS80, LDOS, DOSPLUS), particularly since the model 3 and
4 FDC can NOT create a disk with the DAMs that model 1 TRSDOS (2.0 - 2.3)
is happy with, so all model 1 users should upgrade their OS.