1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. COMP.OS.CPM

  • Looking for Z8000 "Trump Card" resources

    From scott baker@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 17 11:33:04 2022
    The Trump Card was a project published in BYTE Magazine in 1984, a Zilog Z8000 coprocessor for the IBM PC. Amongst other things, it included CP/M-80 emulation. In addition to the BYTE Magazine article, it was sold as a commercial product by Sweet Micro
    Systems.

    I've been looking for Trump Card software for some time with no luck, but recently the opportunity came up to purchase a Trump Card (sadly, without software) so I now own this card and am once again renewing my quest to find the software. The hardware
    itself is well-documented and would be easily reproducible, but the software is not.

    As this was probably of interest to the CP/M community back in the 80s, I'm hoping some folks here might have held onto the software, or at least be able to recommend me the next place to journey to on my quest.

    Thanks,
    Scott

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From David Schultz@21:1/5 to scott baker on Sat Dec 17 15:17:12 2022
    On 12/17/22 1:33 PM, scott baker wrote:
    As this was probably of interest to the CP/M community back in the 80s, I'm hoping some folks here might have held onto the software, or at least be able to recommend me the next place to journey to on my quest.

    If all else fails, there is CP/M-8000: http://www.cpm.z80.de/binary.html


    --
    http://davesrocketworks.com
    David Schultz

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From scott baker@21:1/5 to David Schultz on Wed Dec 21 20:21:36 2022
    On Saturday, 17 December 2022 at 13:17:19 UTC-8, David Schultz wrote:
    If all else fails, there is CP/M-8000: http://www.cpm.z80.de/binary.html

    Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I've thought about that. I could port the CP/M-8000 BIOS to talk to the host computer and plumb through a console and file interface. But, there was some really nice software that came with the Trump Card -- a basic
    compiler for example.

    Sometimes I play the long game with things like this. A few times I've put up a video and then 3-5 years later someone will happen across it and have some critical missing resource.

    Scott

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)