CPM programs available from PD libraries in the eighties/nineties - Video 1.
The first eight minutes of this video is spent looking at the disk catalogue (Parados/Amsdos) and displaying a help file. From 8:10 onwards NSWP.COM is used to Unsqueeze the files and more help files are displayed. The CPM programs on the disk are shown from 24:25 until the video cuts out abruptly at 36:49 (Video 2 tomorrow).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR3uXttmWok (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR3uXttmWok)
Links:
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/CP/M (https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/CP/M)
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Graduate_Software (https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Graduate_Software)
Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.
Video 2
CPM programs available from PD libraries in the eighties/nineties - this video carries on directly from the end of video 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuUEfnyK7Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuUEfnyK7Q)
Links:
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/CP/M (https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/CP/M)
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Graduate_Software (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Graduate_Software)
Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly
Hello,
For what it's worth, back in the 1980s, I got quite a few of the PD disks. Maybe getting on for 50, never counted them. Some system utilities, games, programming things (esp C), etc. Quite a lot of things that I look at now and wonder - why the hell did I get this?
Still got all the disks. They are 5.25", 40t CP/M format. Some are the format for the disk drive for the HX-20 system I have, they are just a few. Vast majority are the format for the 5.25" drive I got to attach as B: to my PCW.
I still get things off the disks from time to time, so far (touch wood) the disks always read perfectly OK.
Maybe I should just do a list of the disk names, there are lists on the web of these, with contents detailed?
Anyone interested?
Geoff