Re: Wordstar 4 on Apple II

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <a5qjid$5fc$1@venus.itns.co.za>,
Stephen Shaw  <xstephenx@apple2.org.za> wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:02:16 +1100, Leslie Ayling wrote:
>
>>
>> "Linards Ticmanis" <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote in message
>> 3C79C671.5070302@coli.uni-sb.de">news:3C79C671.5070302@coli.uni-sb.de...
>>>
>>> I have the 60K CP/M 2.23 for the Softcard; that one should have quite
>>> enough TPA memory to be able to run WS4, if only disk space wasn't so
>>> tight. Although I have heard 2.23 can format non-bootable disks with
>>> 140K free, I haven't yet found out how to do that. Also a bootable disk
>>> is of course nicer.
>>> Linards Ticmanis
>>
>> What about running CP/M on a IIgs using the 3.5 inch drives?
>> I don't know if there was a patch for CP/M to see the larger capacity
>> drives, though it wouldn't be too hard to implement.
>
>From what I remember when the IIGS was released in 1986 Apple warned that most
>CP/M cards would not work - can't remember why. Memory timing cycle clashing 
>with the CP/M cards onboard memory???

If so, there should be no problem at least with the original MS Softcard,
since that CP/M card had no on-board memory.

>>
>> There were patches for Apple2 CP/M to allow it to run with a 5MB
>> (or 10mb, I can't remember) Hard disk.

Certainly not 10 MB, since CP/M 2.2 itself only suporterd drives up
to 8 MB....

>> The AppleII oasis emulator supports a virtual harddisk on your PC.
>>
>> Perhaps this might be an avenue to explore?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Leslie
>
>-- 
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