Hello, all:
Just a quick announcement. Today was the official release of version 2.1 of
the Altair32 Emulator. Yeah!
It's been about four months since the 2.0 release and a lot has happened
since then. Floppy disk images for CP/M, Altair DOS and Disk BASIC are fully
functional and the Altair32 now has an integrated debugger, courtesy of Jim
Battle's Sol-20 emulation project. These two items alone took over half of
the time between releases and integrating the debugger required a major
overhaul of the 8080 emulation code.
On the negative side, a small regression error has crept in and 4k BASIC
will no longer run. This is not so bad because if you could run 8k BASIC
there's no reason to run 4k BASIC.
The next phase of the project will hopefully include some or all of the
following:
Continued code cleanup; minor fixes to IMSAI conditional
Further testing of the debugger (it's been only lightly tested with the
Altair32)
A set of Windows-based tools to manipulate diskette images (to enable people
to download programs from http://www.retroarchive.org and get them onto
diskettes)
Support for BBS software
Support for different floppy controllers/disk formats and maybe a
pseudo-floppy hard drive.
That's it for now. As always, you can check out the project at:
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/Altair32.htm
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 xtguy(a)mindspring.com wrote:
> I was told that Don Maslin can help me with boot disks for some old CP/M
> computers. I need boot disks for the following:
>
> Morrow Micro Decision MD 1
> Epson QX-10
> several different Kaypro models
>
> I tried to make a boot disk for the Morrow using 22disk and the 'STDCPM22'
> file at 'www.retroarchive.org'. 22disk did not have a file format for the
> Morrow MD 1, so I used the format for the Morrow MD 2. (As far as I have
> been able to find out, the MD1 had full height floppy disk drives and the
> MD2 had half-height drives, but they were the same capacity). When I tried
> to use the floppy to boot the computer, it would spin for about 15 seconds,
> then the computer would reboot.
The format for MD-1 and MD-2 are the same. The major difference
between the machines is that the -1 is a single drive machine
while the -2 has - surprise - two! His 'STDCPM22' of course would
not work as it is not tailored to the Morrow hardware, and even
had it been, 22Disk will not normally write a boot track.
> I was making the boot disk on a computer which had a 360K floppy drive.
>
> Thanks!
>
> xtguy
I have contacted Kevin off-list and hope to get him up and running
soon.
- don
Very nice book scanner!There is? probably?a? second? career?? ?out there? for? you if? you? chose to? make them!Ed#
In a message dated 1/1/2019 11:01:31 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
> This may be a good place to mention a text I began writing some while ago:
>
> On Scanning.
>? http://everist.org/temp/__On_scanning.htm
>
> Meant to be a 'how to' about scanning and post-processing techniques, written as I
> explored that myself. It's not finished because I was working on a solution to the
> 'screened images with overlaid sharp text' post-processing problem, when sidetracked.
> As often happens with me. Also that project diverged into the whole text encoding
> thing. Which I can't discuss, but I *can* discuss scanning issues.
>
> Anyway, any comments, corrections and suggestions for extra material are welcome.
>
Here's a video on a diy book scanner I built in order to scan all the
Crescent Software documentation I got.? Seems relevant to this. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niwLAbgRpDE
(Crescent Software archive is here:
http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent)
g.
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, steve shumaker wrote:
> available for free + postage from 95006:
>
> several partial years of the KayPro focus magazine "Profiles":
>
> Dec/Jan 85 ?Dec 85 (full year)
>
> Jan-Mar 86; Jul 86
>
> Jun ?Jul 87; Sep ? Dec 87
>
> Jan ? May 88
>
> Note that these issues are all available as scanned docs (or will be shortly)
> on Gene Buckle's site at www.retroarchive.org. But if you gotta have an
> original....
> I figured I'd offer them here before they get recycled. mags are in good
> shape.
>
These issues will get posted this weekend:
profiles_v2n10.pdf
profiles_v2n4.pdf
profiles_v2n5.pdf
profiles_v2n6.pdf
profiles_v2n7.pdf
profiles_v3n1.pdf
profiles_v3n10.pdf
profiles_v3n11.pdf
profiles_v3n2.pdf
profiles_v3n3.pdf
profiles_v3n4.pdf
profiles_v3n5.pdf
profiles_v3n6.pdf
profiles_v3n7.pdf
profiles_v3n8.pdf
profiles_v3n9.pdf
profiles_v4n1.pdf
profiles_v4n3.pdf
profiles_v4n4.pdf
profiles_v4n5.pdf
profiles_v4n6.pdf
profiles_v4n7.pdf
profiles_v4n8.pdf
profiles_v2n8.pdf
Roughly 2GB of data. Each one is anywhere from 65MB to 98MB in size.
g.
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minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which
holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd
by the clean end.
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> At 6:28 AM -0800 12/10/12, geneb wrote:
>> The whole file is now available at:
>> http://www.retroarchive.org/maslin/maslin_archive.zip
>>
>> When time allows I'll break the disk and ROM image collections down by
>> vendor and get new pages created for them.
>>
>> Many thanks to Al for recovering this!
>
> Outstanding! Does this mean that Al was able to finally determine where all
> the disk images were? Thanks for making this available as one big ZIP!
> Though out of curiosity, do you feel like you're under a DOS attack yet?
It's my understanding that Al found the backup tapes from Don's imaging
machine. Al originally had it online at a free download service. That's
going away today (or already has), so I got it uploaded when I had a
second. I'm going to be distracted by a 3D printer soon, so I don't know
when I'll get to splitting it up. :)
I'm not worried much about the load on the pipe - it's Jay's bandwidth. :D
g.
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> By then, we may resolve the question on this list.
>
> By then, will MICROS~1 have been broken up?
>
Yes, but not in the way you think. You see, January 23rd, 10,002 the
Microsoft Commonwealth will be invaded by a hideous race known as the
Zorg. They invade us because of a bad trade agreement. It seems
that when they installed Windows 10,000 in their hospitals, the
systems crashed and all the tiny little Zorglings in the creche
die.
They'll completely devistate humanity in a ragged war that will
last a hundred years. By the time we defeat them, we'll be once again
trapped in Mother Earth's gravity well.
All won't be lost though since an enterprising young man will discover a
cache of Z-80 (and glue logic) chip mask drawings etched in gold. Thus
the 2341st Computer Revolution will be born. This same individual will
find the glass holodisc archive of http://www.retroarchive.org and CP/M
will once again flourish in the land.
Bill Gates XXXXXXXIIIV will of course try to co-opt this in his grandest
family tradition by naming it "Computer Program/Microsoft", but no one
pays any attention and a short time later he's fed feet first into a
recently restored 20th century automated sausage press. [Which it is
later discovered to have been restored for this exact purpose.]
> By then, will we have a RELIABLE OS?
>
Depends on how the Zorg react to CP/M, now doesn't it?
g.
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Brian Lanning wrote:
> I'm greatly into this also. I have four amigas. I'm about to put
> "hard drives" in two and replace one in a third with 2gb compact flash
> cards attached to ide adapters. They're small, fast, quiet, and the
> capacity is huge for the era. On my want-list for hardware is an
> Apple 2e and Apple 2gs. Both also have ide controllers being made
> today. One also has the compact flash adapter right there on the
> card. I'd also like to find a similar scsi solution for my two macs
> that doesn't cost a huge amount of money.
>
Brian, I've done something similar with my Amiga 2000. I'm using a
SCSI-IDE bridge connected to an IDE-CF adapter. Works great.
I'm using a Focus IDE controller in my IIe to run my bbs
(telnet://aor.retroarchive.org). I'm using a ProDOS formatted 128MB CF
card instead of a drive though.
> The same is true for networking. Someone has made ethernet connectors
> for the 2e and c64. I also have a deneb board in one of my amiga
> 2000s. It's a usb 2.0 controller that works with all sorts of things
> including usb ethernet adapters.
>
What OS rev has drivers for the USB card and ethernet controller? I would
love to have the ability to put my A2000 on the net.
g.
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On 4/16/2013 9:40 AM, geneb wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, steve shumaker wrote:
>
>> On 4/16/2013 8:10 AM, geneb wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, John Foust wrote:
>>>
>>>> At 09:42 AM 4/16/2013, geneb wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, John Foust wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Except "Well, our metadata is shit." I think he put that in there
>>>>>> just
>>>>>> to let the professional archivists blow their coffee out their
>>>>>> noses.
>>>>> The hope is to be blunt about it in order to not only be up front
>>>>> about the problem, but to hopefully get volunteers to
>>>>> provide/improve the metadata.
>>>>
>>>> And is there a mechanism for that to happen?
>>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure it's straightforward to submit new metadata -
>>> however, they're underingoing a commercial power upgrade at the
>>> moment and are offline. When they're back up, I'd suggest creating
>>> an account and see what they offer with regards to new submissions.
>>>
>>> g.
>>>
>>>
>> Would not the Maslin archives be a valuable submission?
>
> I suspect it's already there. If not, I can certainly correct the
> oversight. I do know that the LoC has a copy of retroarchive.org - I
> just don't know how fresh it is.
>
> g
>
didn't see it in a quick search.
s2
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, steve shumaker wrote:
> On 4/16/2013 8:10 AM, geneb wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, John Foust wrote:
>>
>>> At 09:42 AM 4/16/2013, geneb wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, John Foust wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Except "Well, our metadata is shit." I think he put that in there just
>>>>> to let the professional archivists blow their coffee out their noses.
>>>> The hope is to be blunt about it in order to not only be up front about
>>>> the problem, but to hopefully get volunteers to provide/improve the
>>>> metadata.
>>>
>>> And is there a mechanism for that to happen?
>>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's straightforward to submit new metadata - however,
>> they're underingoing a commercial power upgrade at the moment and are
>> offline. When they're back up, I'd suggest creating an account and see
>> what they offer with regards to new submissions.
>>
>> g.
>>
>>
> Would not the Maslin archives be a valuable submission?
I suspect it's already there. If not, I can certainly correct the
oversight. I do know that the LoC has a copy of retroarchive.org - I just
don't know how fresh it is.
g
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On December 1, 2019 9:52:03 AM PST, jim stephens via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
>On 12/1/2019 8:19 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> On 2019/11/30 23:32:55 -0800, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
>>> On 11/30/2019 9:45 PM, Eric Dittman via cctalk wrote:
>>>> On 11/30/2019 8:34 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
>>>>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>
>>> Links.txt
>>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm
>>> ???? Daves Old Computers - Disk/Software Images. Boot disks for lots
>>> ???? of different vintage computers are here. It's not nearly the
>>> ???? size of Don Maslin's lost archive, but it's a start.
>>>
>>
>> I don't keep up with CP/M etc but I thought I recall it being
>> announced that Don Maslin's lost archive had been recovered?
>>
>Here's the archive
>
>http://www.retroarchive.org/maslin/
>
>P112 I think is way newer than anything related though.
Correct.
On the 8" drive question, I haven't done it myself, but I've received reports from people who've successfully used them with the P112. It involves pretending they're HD 5.25" drives and using a hardware shim to deliver more current when writing to tracks greater than X. I don't recall the specifics though.
BTW, I'm the one who's been selling them since Dave Brookes stopped doing so. I'm out of boards again and probably won't be doing any more runs with surface-mounts preinstalled on account of the difficulty of finding large quantities of new and pristine super-IO chips. I might do a new run of naked boards.
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