Hello from sunny Surrey & re: CPM-68K for the QL
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:28 pm
Hi All,
I found this forum because I was watching a retro YouTube channel and someone in the comments mentioned CP/M-68K and a thought occurred to me along the lines of "Did it really ever escape from Quest and into the wild on the QL?"
I worked for Quest back in 83-84 and wrote the BIOS I/O for CP/M-68K on the QL. It was very much a rush job though. I think I/we did it in 6 weeks from receiving our first QL and the ONLY CP/M-68K disks in the UK from DR.
From google I found a thread here that has been dead since 2015 but thought it would be interesting to try to follow it up by joining (or I couldn't post anything) so now I'm all joined up I'll post something on that thread about what I can remember about what was needed back then to get it going. But, I seriously doubt that the necessary hardware has been retained by anyone. Unless you know different...
I'm also really interested in the Retro museum idea in France... I have A LOT of retro machines including possibly 50 various Sinclairs in states from almost pristine & boxed down to chewed by mice!
So once again Hi! it would be really something to see work I did 34 years ago spring into life on a real QL or possibly it would be easier to get it going on a emulator - the down side is that I really don't know/remember if I retained the assembler source code.
Timbo.
I found this forum because I was watching a retro YouTube channel and someone in the comments mentioned CP/M-68K and a thought occurred to me along the lines of "Did it really ever escape from Quest and into the wild on the QL?"
I worked for Quest back in 83-84 and wrote the BIOS I/O for CP/M-68K on the QL. It was very much a rush job though. I think I/we did it in 6 weeks from receiving our first QL and the ONLY CP/M-68K disks in the UK from DR.
From google I found a thread here that has been dead since 2015 but thought it would be interesting to try to follow it up by joining (or I couldn't post anything) so now I'm all joined up I'll post something on that thread about what I can remember about what was needed back then to get it going. But, I seriously doubt that the necessary hardware has been retained by anyone. Unless you know different...
I'm also really interested in the Retro museum idea in France... I have A LOT of retro machines including possibly 50 various Sinclairs in states from almost pristine & boxed down to chewed by mice!
So once again Hi! it would be really something to see work I did 34 years ago spring into life on a real QL or possibly it would be easier to get it going on a emulator - the down side is that I really don't know/remember if I retained the assembler source code.
Timbo.