2 Apr
2002
2 Apr
'02
2:46 p.m.
This is the S-100 world you've entered, not the PC
world. The BIOS doesn't go
into an EPROM, and you don't buy the BIOS. If you can't find one written for
your EXACT hardware environment, which you usually can't, you have to write it
yourself. Then you have to incorporate it into a bootable image of CP/M and
then find a way to propagate it onto a bootable diskette.
That will require some study and some effort. Hopefully you're endowed with
enogh free time and interested enough in the related tasks to get that done.
You should add that it is a real kick when you finally get
everything right and the sucker actually boots and works!
All of my boxes that run CP/M run 2.2 built from the source
found at the "unofficial CP/M web site":
http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/archive/unofficial/
Finding a build environment is left as an exercise for the reader.