Re: Dos CP/M on a Z80 card require an 80 column card to work?

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<bu2dnTcn3Z0d3PeiU-KYjA@comcast.com>...
> "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > "Dave Dragon" <davedragonuk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> > 3F6A183E.96DE8797@yahoo.co.uk">news:3F6A183E.96DE8797@yahoo.co.uk...
> > > Hi,
> > > I have managed to get a Z80 card (which appears to be a clone of the
> > > microsoft card) running in my Apple II+. I think its running! I
> > > downloaded a CPM disk image from http://www.cpm.z80.de/binary.html and
> > > the disk boots on the Apple and if the Z80 card is out it gives a "no
> > > Z80 found" error, with the card in it gives no error, but nothing else
> > > either.
> > > Does anyone out there know if CP/M expects an 80 column card to work?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave.
> >
> > All 4 of my CP/M cards work and every CP/M disk I boot comes
> > up in 80 column mode. I haven't tried to run it in 40 column, but,
> > the II+ starts out in 40 and jumps to 80 once CP/M is booted.
> > Try it in a IIe if you have one.
> 
> Also, if you read the entire entry on that page where you got the
> software, you would have noticed that the version you have is
> for the //e, not II+. I have the version here somewhere that runs
> on the II+ with 40 column, I think. Let me check and get back to
> you. I don't have the II+ set up right now.
> 

The reason I said "//e" when I submitted that copy of CP/M is because
I could not get it to work in ][+ mode in Apple Oasis, same results.

There is a CP/M 2.2 diskset in the Word Processors (!) section of
Asimov *hides pegleg* that works on a 48K or 64K ][+.

-uso.