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Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-08-08T21:06:16-04:00

Awesome!

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:06 pm

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-08-08T12:27:01-04:00

I got NEWCCP working today on top of my ABP-patched CP/M installation. The NIAD disk that contained NEWCCP also contained a ADAMCCP.HEX file so I actually used that to patch the CCP. Using the already created hex file made the installation easier as I could skip over the assembly and linking part of the instructions.

It works. The only odd thing I've noticed is that it sometimes reports the file sizes incorrectly (saying each of them is 256K). So I now have this in place and I am still able to utilize 720K disk images instead of 160K. Pretty sweet!

I'm attaching the disk image.

CPM 2.2 [NEWCCP + ABP25] - 720k.dsk.zip

Statistics: Posted by joltguy — Sat Aug 08, 2020 12:27 pm

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-16T11:50:37-04:00

On the problem with it locking up in the emulator I believe the problem may be that the emulator doesn't handle the disk drive format command correctly.

Ah, that is good to know. I always have problems formatting disks when using the emulator.

Statistics: Posted by joltguy — Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:50 am

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-16T10:18:12-04:00

Never Mind I figured it out

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:18 am

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-16T10:06:12-04:00

Still really stoked to have this setup though. I've got a 720K CP/M 2.2 boot disk with lots of room left for utilities and I can mount a 720K data disk for my work. I don't have a hard drive, so this is a pretty good arrangement for me!
Using which one? Was this with the emulator?

How did you format and sysgen the disk after using apb25?

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:06 am

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-16T09:09:45-04:00

Using which one? Was this with the emulator?
Using ABP25 on my real ADAM. Bonus: On the real hardware I had no trouble accessing the tape drive and copying between disk and tape.
So I assume you have a 3 1/2" disk drive for the adam?

I just reread what you posted before and see you are using a ADEL so that makes sense. On the problem with it locking up in the emulator I believe the problem may be that the emulator doesn't handle the disk drive format command correctly.

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:09 am

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-16T09:07:28-04:00

Using which one? Was this with the emulator?
Using ABP25 on my real ADAM. Bonus: On the real hardware I had no trouble accessing the tape drive and copying between disk and tape.

So I assume you have a 3 1/2" disk drive for the adam?

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:07 am

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-15T23:45:53-04:00

Using which one? Was this with the emulator?

Using ABP25 on my real ADAM. Bonus: On the real hardware I had no trouble accessing the tape drive and copying between disk and tape.

Statistics: Posted by joltguy — Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:45 pm

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-15T17:09:56-04:00

Still really stoked to have this setup though. I've got a 720K CP/M 2.2 boot disk with lots of room left for utilities and I can mount a 720K data disk for my work. I don't have a hard drive, so this is a pretty good arrangement for me!

Using which one? Was this with the emulator?

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:09 pm

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-15T17:09:13-04:00

Did you try to get a copy of NEWCCP working?
No, I haven't tried that yet. Have you?

I'm trying to figure it out - the instructions are not very good - will see what I can do

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:09 pm

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-15T16:28:15-04:00

Did you try to get a copy of NEWCCP working?

No, I haven't tried that yet. Have you?

Statistics: Posted by joltguy — Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:28 pm

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-15T14:09:21-04:00

Did you try to get a copy of NEWCCP working?

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:09 pm

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-14T00:08:21-04:00

I only got a chance to try it on the emulator today. Weird thing is that ABP26.com seemed to freeze up the system when trying to access the RAMdisk if the expanded memory was set to more than 128K. Luckily, the archive you pointed me to also contained ABP25.com and this version did not have the same issue. With 256K expansion memory configured, CP/M had access to a 246K RAM disk. Very nice!

On my actual ADAM I have 2 data pack drives and an ADE Lite drive... no actual floppy drive. Being able to access 720K disk images via the ADEL will definitely be helpful as will the more spacious RAM disk (I have a 256K expander in my ADAM).

One odd behaviour I noticed with both ABP25 and 26 was that if I tried to access the tape drive and the secondary disk drive in the same session I would get device errors. Like it would read the disk properly for a DIRectory listing but then would fail if I tried to copy files from one drive to the other. Again, I haven't tried it yet on the real ADAM so we'll see how it goes. It's not a deal breaker anyway as I'd rarely use the tape drive in CP/M.

Still really stoked to have this setup though. I've got a 720K CP/M 2.2 boot disk with lots of room left for utilities and I can mount a 720K data disk for my work. I don't have a hard drive, so this is a pretty good arrangement for me!

Statistics: Posted by joltguy — Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:08 am

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-13T18:12:55-04:00

Let’s know how it works - what drives do you have?

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:12 pm

Re: Looking for ABP12.COM

2020-07-13T11:27:49-04:00

Milli, you are AWESOME!!

Seriously man, great find! Thank you! If this works as expected it is going to make using CP/M so much more enjoyable.

Statistics: Posted by joltguy — Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:27 am