jtb@phs.UUCP (11/30/83)
I have one of these CP/M cartrages for a C64. I havent used it much yet so I cant be sure but the manual is a duplicate of the standard one so that much is standard. The max memory is reduced because the screen is bit mapped and the BIOS is completly different since much of it is actualy entry points to routines running on the other processor. I think that most programs which require cursor positioning will not work and could not be made to work without major rework. Also the screen is a non standard size which would break many programs. Keep in mind that the screen is a standard vidio monitor not a crt it is optimized for games and is hard on the eyes when used for text. If you have had experience with the first Osborne I think you can get an idea of what using the C64 CP/M would be like it had the same non standard screen and BIOS. One question I have not gotten a satisfactory answer to is how standard the disks it writes are it is not clear to me that the software houses are making CP/M programs avalable in a sutable format if anybody knows I would like to hear. As you say the price cant be beat so perhaps it will find a nitch (as a training machine perhaps a demo system could be put together using an existing TV for less than $600). Jose Torre-Bueno decvax!duke!phs!jtb