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    From Zach Metzinger@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 27 08:52:12 2024
    Built years ago by a friend of mine for the HaD one-inch-square contest:

    https://hackaday.io/project/161496-cpm-50-mk-ii

    --- Zach

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  • From pH@21:1/5 to Zach Metzinger on Thu Jul 4 01:03:25 2024
    On 2024-06-27, Zach Metzinger <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Built years ago by a friend of mine for the HaD one-inch-square contest:

    https://hackaday.io/project/161496-cpm-50-mk-ii

    --- Zach

    Good Grief!

    This makes the Ampro Little Board (which fit atop a 5-1/4 inch disk drive
    look gargantuan.

    And it's *50Mhz*!. Sigh. I *still* love cp/m even though it's a lost
    cause.

    Once I realized that my beloved WordStar and CBASIC required overlays to do their magic I finally had to agree that 64K was not really enough....

    cp/m lives on for me, though, in the Joe editor for Linux in the jstar incarnation.

    I think SuperCalc was the spreadsheet for cp/m but I've never used spreadsheets...

    thanks for this link.

    pH in Aptos, CA

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  • From Jack Strangio@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 4 20:18:16 2024
    pH <[email protected]> writes:

    cp/m lives on for me, though, in the Joe editor for Linux in the jstar incarnation.

    Yeah. I was imprinted with WordStar in the mid 1980s. I've used it ever
    since, both when I use it onCP/M for programming and also on Linux with
    jstar. I even renamed 'jstar' to 'ws'.

    One of my first tasks with a new install is to install 'joe' and then
    to run 'fix.joe':

    #!/bin/bash
    # jvs script 2009
    #
    #changes joe's jstar options to ws
    #
    cd /usr/bin
    sudo cp joe ws
    cd /etc/joe
    sudo cp jstarrc wsrc
    # fixes crontab editorrc (for root) to be same as jstar
    mv editorrc editorrc.000
    ln -s jstarrc editorrc


    Regards,

    Jack
    --
    My Wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him.

    Went out. Had a few drinks. Nice guy. He's a web designer.

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  • From pH@21:1/5 to Jack Strangio on Wed Jul 10 00:27:37 2024
    On 2024-07-04, Jack Strangio <[email protected]> wrote:
    pH <[email protected]> writes:

    cp/m lives on for me, though, in the Joe editor for Linux in the jstar
    incarnation.

    Yeah. I was imprinted with WordStar in the mid 1980s. I've used it ever since, both when I use it onCP/M for programming and also on Linux with jstar. I even renamed 'jstar' to 'ws'.

    One of my first tasks with a new install is to install 'joe' and then
    to run 'fix.joe':

    #!/bin/bash
    # jvs script 2009
    #
    #changes joe's jstar options to ws
    #
    cd /usr/bin
    sudo cp joe ws
    cd /etc/joe
    sudo cp jstarrc wsrc
    # fixes crontab editorrc (for root) to be same as jstar
    mv editorrc editorrc.000
    ln -s jstarrc editorrc


    Regards,

    Jack

    Cool.
    Yes, that is one of the first things I install after an upgrade.

    That and install a bunch of my aliaes and keybindings...C-Y = delete line,
    for example.


    pH in Aptos

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  • From Zach Metzinger@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 31 21:00:13 2024
    On 7/3/24 20:03, pH wrote:
    On 2024-06-27, Zach Metzinger <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Built years ago by a friend of mine for the HaD one-inch-square contest:

    https://hackaday.io/project/161496-cpm-50-mk-ii

    I think SuperCalc was the spreadsheet for cp/m but I've never used spreadsheets...

    The only thing I do with mine is play Ladder. It was the first "video
    game" I ever played. :-)

    --- Zach

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  • From Nils M Holm@21:1/5 to Zach Metzinger on Thu Aug 1 09:52:52 2024
    Zach Metzinger <[email protected]d> wrote:
    The only thing I do with mine is play Ladder. It was the first "video
    game" I ever played. :-)

    If you like Ladder, you might also like my Ladder clone: http://t3x.org/t3x/0/programs.html#ladders

    Nils

    --
    Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org

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  • From Zach Metzinger@21:1/5 to Nils M Holm on Thu Aug 1 09:17:09 2024
    On 8/1/24 04:52, Nils M Holm wrote:
    If you like Ladder, you might also like my Ladder clone: http://t3x.org/t3x/0/programs.html#ladders

    Nicely done!

    LADDER.COM is a BASCOM executable, meaning it was once a BASIC program
    that was compiled. I have a long-term project which aims to reproduce
    the source code, sans proper variable names -- of course, so that it is
    100% authentic. I've done some work with BASCOM and IDA to suss out how
    it compiles code, but I'm far short of an automated decompiler.

    --- Zach

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to Zach Metzinger on Fri Aug 2 09:58:07 2024
    XPost: comp.os.msdos.programmer

    On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 09:17:09 -0500
    Zach Metzinger <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On 8/1/24 04:52, Nils M Holm wrote:
    If you like Ladder, you might also like my Ladder clone: http://t3x.org/t3x/0/programs.html#ladders

    Nicely done!

    OT, but I'm thinking of writing/converting Nils's source text to DOS x86
    asm;- it doesn't look as if there's a DOS port out there (Javascript
    doesnt count, IMO!).

    xpost to coc & comp


    LADDER.COM is a BASCOM executable, meaning it was once a BASIC program
    that was compiled. I have a long-term project which aims to reproduce
    the source code, sans proper variable names -- of course, so that it is
    100% authentic. I've done some work with BASCOM and IDA to suss out how
    it compiles code, but I'm far short of an automated decompiler.

    BASIC source would have been portable, but it doesn't seem to be
    available.

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From Nils M Holm@21:1/5 to Zach Metzinger on Fri Aug 2 09:16:28 2024
    Zach Metzinger <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On 8/1/24 04:52, Nils M Holm wrote:
    If you like Ladder, you might also like my Ladder clone:
    http://t3x.org/t3x/0/programs.html#ladders

    Nicely done!

    LADDER.COM is a BASCOM executable, meaning it was once a BASIC program
    that was compiled. I have a long-term project which aims to reproduce
    the source code, sans proper variable names -- of course, so that it is
    100% authentic. I've done some work with BASCOM and IDA to suss out how
    it compiles code, but I'm far short of an automated decompiler.

    Interesting! Never had a closer look at LADDER.COM. Good luck with the
    project! If you are just looking for a hackable LADDER-like game, the
    source code for my version is in the archive. :)

    --
    Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org

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  • From Nils M Holm@21:1/5 to John on Fri Aug 2 09:21:20 2024
    XPost: comp.os.msdos.programmer

    In comp.os.cpm Kerr-Mudd, John <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 09:17:09 -0500
    Zach Metzinger <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On 8/1/24 04:52, Nils M Holm wrote:
    If you like Ladder, you might also like my Ladder clone:
    http://t3x.org/t3x/0/programs.html#ladders

    Nicely done!

    OT, but I'm thinking of writing/converting Nils's source text to DOS x86 asm;- it doesn't look as if there's a DOS port out there (Javascript
    doesnt count, IMO!).

    There is a DOS .COM file in the archive [1] and the same source code
    compiles to DOS, CP/M, and Unix executables without any changes. All
    you need is a T3X/0 compiler [2]. There are pre-compiled compilers for
    DOS and CP/M on the homepage.

    [1] http://t3x.org/t3x/0/ladders.zip
    [2] http://t3x.org/t3x/0/index.html

    F'up-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer

    --
    Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org

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