16 Dec
2009
16 Dec
'09
7 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Dec 16, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Bob Brown wrote:
One of my favorite things that runs on CP/M is the Scott Adams'
Adventure series. It's true that there are run-time engines for more
modern platforms (including Palm Pilot (via Inform and PalmFrotz, a
Z-machine) and even just a straight Perl interpreter), but Scott Adams
sold CP/M games back in the day, and you should be able to run the
originals on your Model II. Long ago, before the IF community made
all the platform conversions, it was easier to find the CP/M binaries
(since that was about the only common format we had to pass around).
Now, you might have to dig a bit for them.
Scott Adams himself has not released the games into the Public Domain,
but does allow people to copy and play the games, and asks for a
donation if you enjoy them.
-ethan
2) ? ? ?What can I do with a model II now? ?When
it is booted into CP/M,
will it only run CPM stuff specifically for the trs-80 or will it run
any CP/M stuff that is on 8" floppy?
?Most any CP/M software. ?That's the whole point of CP/M.