Hi people!
I guess that everyone here knows that classic 8080/Z-80 CP/M software can run under MSX-DOS natively without conversion (OK... perhaps some modifications regarding terminal or access ports, like every hardware on that it is expected to run), but in fact, how many REAL "pure" CP/M versions exist for MSX?
Here are some that I know...
- CP/M Plus (compatible with CP/M v3.0), by RVS Datentechnik, runs only on MSX2 with Memory Mapper
http://www.z80.eu/msx2.html
- HB-MCP (compatible with CP/M 2.2), by Epcom/Sharp, runs really fast, but only on MSX1 with specific disk drive controllers and only on 5,25" disks... and in Portuguese. There is a ".ips" to fix the display routines to run on MSX2/2+ with V9958, but I never had luck running it on my HitBit HB-F1XV.
http://frs.badcoffee.info/files/HB-3600_rom_and_disks.zip
- SVI CP/M (compatible with CP/M 2.2), by SVI, were 2 disks bundled with Spectravideo SVI 738. I never run it on any machine, emulated or not.
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img54306/d/s328s728.zip
I would like to know if you know or have any other CP/M for MSX and if possible, get disk images of them before they disappear forever.
Note: CP/M disks have a different format and filesystem that we use on MSX, so disk images of them should be done by a special kind of software like the powerful David Dufeld's Imagedisk ( http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm ) that runs only on MS-DOS and not every floppy disk controller supports every kind of formatting.
Anyway, it's the most used software to create images of CP/M disks on every platform as well as retrieve these images back to real disks. So, forget Disk Manager to rip CP/M disks. Usually, does not work.
