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From: pete@utcsscb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: CP/M-80 Z80 Emulator Bug
Message-ID: <441@utcsscb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Nov-86 11:05:54 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsscb.441
Posted: Wed Nov 12 11:05:54 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Nov-86 19:31:12 EST
References: <1429@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: pete@utcsscb.UUCP (Peter Santangeli)
Organization: Univ. of Toronto - Scarborough Campus "B" VAX
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Summary: 

In article <1429@hcrvx1.UUCP> hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP writes:
>I have just spent some time putting up the CP/M-80 emulator on my
>1040ST.  I have found the emulator seems quite well done.  But there
>are some problems with it.
>
>The emulator seems to support only floppy drives.  I could not get
>it to use a RAM disk (I use the Intersect RAM disk at the moment).
>Since the disks it uses must have a CP/M file system, I don't wish
>to try my hard disk.  Even on a floppy, it only supports a single
>side!  This makes the emulator much less useful on a system with
>only one floppy drive.

	I have had no problems with running the emulator off of a
ramdisk. Using the inidir.com program included in the package, I
have been able to reinitialize ram disks previously set up under
TOS for CPM. The ramdisk I am using is one I downloaded off of a 
local BBS, and has no documentation, so I do not know which one it
is . It is a fixed 600k Ram disk.
	In an in store experiment, I have tried running the emulator
off of 1 partition of the Atari 20mb Hard Drive, with seeming success.
(Just imagine: A system with Magic Sac, the CPM emulator and the ST, all
running off of different partitions of the same Hard disk!)

>The make_cpm command (to start the bootstrapping process of creating
>the first CP/M disk) prompts at the start.  DO NOT put the blank
>disk in at this point.  It needs to fetch a file from the TOS disk
>(which must be on a floppy, I think).  Put the blank disk in at the
>second prompt.  If you do put in a blank disk the first time, you
>will not get a diagnostic.  The machine will just fall asleep for a
>minute and then return to the desktop.

	Further advice. people with 1040st's should boot off of a 
SINGLE SIDED diskette before attempting the installation program. This
seems to make a diffence.

>
>Hugh Redelmeier (416) 922-1937
>utzoo!hcr!hugh

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Pete Santangeli
pete@utcsscb@utcs
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