15 Sep
2000
15 Sep
'00
6:14 p.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Neil Cherry wrote:
Well at least you didn't say it's not possible. I'm still happy to have it
as it's linked to my Atari collection and it's CP/M which I've been looking
for for a while. I'm going to at least attempt to add an IDE interface (ala
The Epson QX-10 example) I figure it should be possible. I do know I can
run the Atari into the Linux box (SIO2PC). The really cool thing was that
when I opened the ATR8000 up it had a Z80, CTC and WD27xx chip (or 17xx
chip), and a lot of TTL. I can build another with a Zilog S18x chip and
have integrated serial, parallel and CTC. Yes I know I'm nuts but I love
it when the old and new cause the lines to blur!
BTW, I wish I could be at the VCF show, but it's a bit far for a quick
bike ride. :-)
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Now comes the questions, I don't know the
commands for CPM does anyone know
of a good intro to ccp? I'm hoping to get a book on CP/M soon. In the mean
I've backed up the roms and I'm about to investigate upgrading to ZsDOS
(or something similar). I'm hoping the ATR8000 will be able to access the
Atari 800 drives, that way I can hook it up to my Linux box and it can act
as a large floppy drive. I know it confusing but it really does work.
Nope, the way it works is that the Atari 800 is actually a dumb terminal
to the ATR8000. In fact, you can plug just about anything into the
ATR-8000 and use it as your CP/M "host". The ATR-8000 has it's own disk
drive ports. It can't use the Atari disk drives (without some serious
modifications).