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Entry 9th August 2017: Post: 1


CPM on the Amiga


Hi

Just been advised of a CP/M Emulator for the Amiga

http://aminet.net/search?query=AmigaZ80

http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/AmigaZ80

[ below not my words ]

This is the best CP/M ver. 2.2 emulator for Amiga  computers.  It is run 
from the CLI (Command Line Interface) shell.

There are CPU-specific versions of the program for the 68000, 68010, 68020,
68030, 68040 CPUs, & a generic version (AMIGAZ80.ALL).  If you have a 68060
accelerator, use the 68040-specific CPU version.

The program is written in C, so don't expect assembler execution speeds.

I believe that the author, Bill Haygood told me that the screen format 
this CP/M emulator uses is an ADM3 (?) or something like that.  It's definitely 
not using Osborne screen control characters.  I asked him about that.  Just 
something to keep in mind when installing WordStar 4.0 or dBase 2.43*, both 
of which I legally own, under this emulator.


A Little History Lesson:
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This is not the latest version of AmigaZ80.  I believe Bill Haygood told 
me that he had eventually stopped  at  a version that ran CP/M 3.0 (aka: CP/M 
Plus), but had lost all sources.  This is the version I got from David A. J. 
McGlone of Lambda Software.  David used to publish "The Z-Letter", a CP/M 
newsletter. David was selling this AmigaZ80 emulator at the time.  I believe 
that AmigaZ80 was reviewed in issue #36 of  David's Z-Letter.  That's one of 
the few 
issues of the Z-Letter that I don't have.  This is my own personal version I 
received at the time in exchange for sending him the MS-DOS version of SpellBinder 
in a swap, which was sometime in the late 1990s.

scuzz


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