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

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Dosius" <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote in message
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> > > "Dave Dragon" <davedragonuk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > > > 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 ][+.

I believe that IS the version of CP/M that I have running. It will
run on the //e as well. I haven't tried the version 3 on the //e as yet,
but I have downloaded it.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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