Re: Wordstar 4 on Apple II

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de>]

Hello Leslie,

Leslie Ayling wrote:

> What about running CP/M on a IIgs using the 3.5 inch drives?

Unfortunately I don't own one, only a II+ and a IIe... and the IIgs are 
kind of hard to find in Europe (as they were never officially sold 
here.), also I wouldn't be able to use my composite monitor (or rather I 
wouldn't get color) as the IIgs is NTSC only when it comes to color.

> 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.

Probably... especially if source code exists. However it sounds like 
quite a bit of work anyway. At the least I have to buy a 3.5 inch drive 
plus controller.

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

Hmmm... I don't own one :-(

> The AppleII oasis emulator supports a virtual harddisk on your PC.

In that case it's probably easier to run some PC word processing software...

> Perhaps this might be an avenue to explore?

In general, probably yes... however for me probably no...
I have to admit that this is more about getting it to work than about 
absolutely having to get it to work in my case, thogh.

--

Linards Ticmanis

 The Master said, "The business of laying on the colors follows the
preparation of the plain ground."