gvw1@ihuxp.UUCP (George V. Wilder) (02/29/84)
I just got an Appli-Card [CP/M(tm)] for my Apple //e. I am trying to locate other Appli-Card/Apple CP/M users who are interested in trading notes, Public Domain software, "hints and kinks", etc. George V. Wilder ihnp4!ihuxp!gvw1 -- George V. Wilder IX 1A-360 x1937 ihnp4!ihuxp!gvw1
rpk@ecsvax.UUCP (03/01/84)
[] I got a PCPI card recently after useing a Microsoft card for about 2 years. There is a world of difference, not only from the speed (PCPI = 6 Mhz, Microsoft = < 2 Mhz) but also from the way that the CP/M is implemented. The PCPI card is also a much better hardware design, in my opinion. It always works with my Apple and its strange home-brewed periphs. I am presently trying to attach a prototype ram-disk made from Intel's bubble memories to the system. Like George, I would also be interested in hearing from users of PCPI CP/M cards. Please post to the net. -Dick ...decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!rpk
ee163abs@sdccs7.UUCP (03/04/84)
I also have the PCPI cp/m card and I am very satisfied with it. It works great with my //e. However, I did purchase the 128K ram expander and used it as a ram disk disk and had many problems with it. I ended up returning it from the place where I bought it after talking to Nick and Gallen at PCPI. The problem I had with it was that it would loose many or parts of my files. Ron Breger
freund@aecom.UUCP (03/05/84)
I've been using the PCPI Appli-Card (4Mhz) for the past year and a half.
The only problems I've encountered have been with the included software
put out by PCPI. For instance, the hiresio driver is just to slow to be
used with the driver I wrote for the Micromodem II. A carriage return
delay helps, but, lines longer than 70 chars still get garbled. I'd
be interested in hearing from someone who has done something similar.
The only other problem is that there is no way to customize cp/m itself.
all those kludges involving a sysgen or movcpm seem to be impossible in
this implimentation unless you know how to edit pcpicpm, which I don't.
P.S. i'm running an apple II+
Larry Freund
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Kindly send replies directly to me as I don't seem to have gotten the
letter which started this discussion, just one of the replies. I will
try to post any responses that I get.gvw1@ihuxp.UUCP (George V. Wilder) (06/21/84)
I am trying to learn how to write drivers for this CP/M(tm) card, which runs in an Apple(tm) //e. I have some information--the OEM information that one can get from PCPI--but I am looking for sample drivers that other people have written; and in general I would be interested in sharing notes with other users. I will be developing a graphics driver that will work with the Double Hi-Res mode that the Apple //e has. George V. Wilder ihnp4!ihuxp!gvw1 (312) 979-1937 -- George V. Wilder ihnp4!ihuxp!gvw1
gvw1@ihuxp.UUCP (George V. Wilder) (08/07/84)
The PCPI Appli-Card(tm) is a versatile CP/M(tm) card for the Apple II (or IIe). Using the OEM software that can be obtained from PCPI, one can write special purpose "drivers" that down load into the Apple at boot time. The card comes with a standard set of drivers for controlling the console, printer, etc. Supposely these drivers can be relocatable or can be loaded into an absolute location at boot time. Now to my question for those of you who have a PCPI Appli-Card... I have been able to write a relocatable driver that allows one to call a subroutine in the apple. Yes I know that there is a general command for doing this, but sometimes values have to be placed in the X, Y, and/or A registers before calling the subroutine (eg., calling some of the graphics subroutines in the Applesoft ROMs)--and that's what my driver does. My question is: I am trying to make the driver so that it loads in an absolute address (eg., at $4000 just above Hi-Res page 1). I cann't get it to work--my system hangs when I boot it with this driver installed as an absolute loading driver (It works great as a relocatable driver.). Can anyone give me a hint??? Thanks! George V. Wilder ihnp4!ihuxp!gvw1 1 (312) 979-1937 -- George V. Wilder ihnp4!ihuxp!gvw1