ABN.ISCAMS%usc-isid@sri-unix.UUCP (12/21/83)
NetLandians,
One of our members out there queried me about a comment referencing CPMUSER,
a CP/M patch that shows you the user area with the usual CP/M Disk and Prompt
("A>") symbols. I foolishly erased his message (got #'s mixed up), and don't
know who to reply to.
For that one person (and others interested), there's an article in my
directory (ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID) you are welcome to FTP. It has various
explanations on my mods and discoveries in CP/M, specifically the CBIOS&
provided for the Morrow Decision I, plus my implementation of two Public
Domain patches: the CPMUSER one mentioned above, and a second which forces
CP/M to look first to Disk A Same User Area if it can't find a file, and
then to Disk A User Area 0.
For Decision I owners, there's other goodies about the mystical Multi I/O
board, AutoStart, and other things. Morrow owners, please feel free to
contact me on a bunch of Morrow-specific stuff I've developed (mostly
adaptations of good Public Domain things) that handle the peculiar port
switching in our system. I have KERMIT running (the very latest mod);
also an improvement to MDM715 with the MM overlay plus my own stuff; Freedom
100 Terminal control stuff; a parity patch for your BIOS if you just HAVE to
fiddle with parity to your ports; an automatic initialization of your serial
port (for a modem) to 1200 so no more BAUD commands. AND I got that stupid
Morrow clock software to work (don't ask ME why they put in two lousy
instructions that ASM won't assemble, when pure and simple 8080 instructions
do EXACTLY the same thing!) Am presently trying to stick in some other disk
drivers for 5 1/4 floppies, but not there yet (don't want to use the NorthStar
drivers that came with it).
Regards,....Oooooh, yeah - the name of the article (dummmb): TOADBIOS.DOC.1
Not TOO long.
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall