New ROM for CP/M!!!

[TFM]

This could be the headline of a thread coming up soon.


Meanwhile I need your help. I want to know about your favorite tools for CP/M. So what would you like to have in a kind of ROM disc? The typical tool / utility is only few KB's big, because a ROM has only 16 KB space.


Now tell me what do you like for CP/M?

[CraigsBar]

Well how many ROMs would be needed to put the CPM version of protext on it

[TFM]

Well how many ROMs would be needed to put the CPM version of protext on it

That's actually too big. Maximum size is (currently) about 15.5 KB.[nb]Ok, I have one solution for that. But we can discuss that in another thread. I made a RAM disc dump including CP/M Plus and Prowort. The way to use it is to start FutureOS read that big chunk of data from disc to Expansion RAM, then jump to Amsdos and start CP/M Plus directly from RAM disc. A profile.sub file cares about anything else. So you can load CP/M Plus and Prowort in a very short time. If you're interested I will look it up, it should be somewhere on some disc IIRC.[/nb]

[CraigsBar]

OK how about one of the CPM gui's? But I guess they are too big too. Is there a CPM tool akin to Norton commander?

[TFM]

Yes, NSWEEP (we already got that on a ROM for CP/M though) and there would be Z-Filer which would require the Z-system.


Now here it's really about smaller stuff. I think that BD04.COM would be a good candidate (very good disc check tool). But I'm open for suggestions.


Oh and it should be a single load tool. Not a multiload. 

[CraigsBar]

Hmmm, I use nswp frequently, not quite nc tho is it lol. There are some nice tools for putting a clock on the bottom line of the screen, or was that for the pcw only?

[TFM]

Ok! Anybody else coming up with an idea / request?

[FloppySoftware]

Only 16 KB? Humm... tricky. 

[MiguelSky]

A tiny text editor, but I don't know if there is one little enough. But one easy to use, no that madness of ED !! 

[FloppySoftware]

A tiny text editor, but I don't know if there is one little enough. But one easy to use, no that madness of ED !! 

Oh, well... te, my CP/M text editor needs only 15 KB on disk:

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[Guest@B00:] $ ls -l te.com
w--   15 Kb   117 Rc b00:te      .com

[TFM]

A tiny text editor, but I don't know if there is one little enough. But one easy to use, no that madness of ED !! 

Such a ROM already exists :-)

Oh, well... te, my CP/M text editor needs only 15 KB on disk:

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[Guest@B00:] $ ls -l te.com
w--   15 Kb   117 Rc b00:te      .com

That's nice! Maybe we can use that one too, is surely has nice features. :-)

Slowly I'm thinking about a ROM generator as second stage of development. First I like to do 1 or 2 ROMs by hand to see how it works. 

Also: We can use compression, Almasys talked about a compressor for CP/M creating .COM files. This would be perfect :-)

[AMSDOS]

A tiny text editor, but I don't know if there is one little enough. But one easy to use, no that madness of ED !! 

Perhaps read the manual & use it in conjunction with using ED before attacking ED?


No PIP on ROM?

[MiguelSky]

Perhaps read the manual & use it in conjunction with using ED before attacking ED?

I read it. It's a headache to handle

@FloppySoftware : te by is a good option (the best for me, I told you) but surely it takes a entire ROM for its.

[CraigsBar]

I read it. It's a headache to handle

@FloppySoftware : te by is a good option (the best for me, I told you) but surely it takes a entire ROM for its.

I always used vde. But it's probably too large for 16k

[AMSDOS]

I read it. It's a headache to handle

I drink too much coke! 

[TFM]

There are a lot of editors called ED.COM. The one which is already in ROM is from HiSoft IIRC, not the one from the system disc.


I didn't get forward with this over the weekend, because I worked all time, let's see what the week will bring.

[TFM]

This totally suxx!!! I can't upload .ROM or .DSK files! And all the text and docs I typed it for you just got lost! So bad luck - I have no time to type it all again. 

[arnoldemu]

Is there a document somewhere which describes the header/structure of a ROM for CP/M?

[TFM]

Is there a document somewhere which describes the header/structure of a ROM for CP/M?

Sure there is ... was... right before the forum software killed it. Therefore now only in German...

Enjoy... or wait until I translated it. ;-)


btw. ROM 4 is the one I just made. It contains BD as command.

Use my ROManager 2.07 to show the ROM contents. 

[TFM]

This totally suxx!!! I can't upload .ROM or .DSK files! And all the text and docs I typed it for you just got lost! So bad luck - I have no time to type it all again. 

Whoa! A Like from JTMS! That's reason enough to make an English version... working on that now...


EDIT: Ok, here I provide the new updated archive with all CP/M ROMs and with German and English documentation.
My own application ROM contains the commands BD  (BD04.COM) and FIND. But it still has 7 KB free space.

[CraigsBar]

I really like that te  from floppy software. Will it fit?

[TFM]

I really like that te  from floppy software. Will it fit?

I really don't get along with TE. Where is the exit key. And I'm tooo lazy to activate keys ccp ;-)


But I made a ROM for you (it's the 5th Acc Expansion ROM). Please try it.[nb]I did try, but I'm not familiar with TE. Seems to start at least and I can type.[/nb]. There is 1 KB free space left, if you suggest a small prog, then I can put it in for you. Enjoy TE! 

[FloppySoftware]

I really don't get along with TE. Where is the exit key. And I'm tooo lazy to activate keys ccp ;-)

Upsss!!!

You're right, no EXIT key on the CPC keyboard, that's inheritage from the PCW version. 

I'll amend it in the next version, I promise. 

But, you need to execute "setkeys keys.ccp" for sure (Hey! It's a CP/M program). 

[Gryzor]

This totally suxx!!! I can't upload .ROM or .DSK files! And all the text and docs I typed it for you just got lost! So bad luck - I have no time to type it all again. 

You probably forgot the discussion - it makes no sense uploading full-size files and taking space on the server when things can go down so much...

[TFM]

You probably forgot the discussion - it makes no sense uploading full-size files and taking space on the server when things can go down so much...

Are you serious? A 16 KB ROM is a problem, while people upload high res pictures of few MB all the time? You should start saving the Euro instead of the Cents.[nb]And even a DSK is 10% of a picture only[/nb]