agv@j.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Murrell) (11/12/87)
I recently obtained an *old* NEC-PC8801A from a friend who wants me to do some custom work on it. As inherited, it had only the assembler -- and now, after some deliberation and a lot of downloading traffic from simtel20, the beast is being tamed. I obtained a version of N88-Disk BASIC from NEC (thanks, Richard Johnson) with the following BASIC files: setinf.n88 phyfrm.n88 ... My question is: What are these for? The documentation is a bit sparse -- "setinf" is supposed to write an information track to disk (for what purpose, I don't know) and "phyfrm" "physically" formats a DMA disk (presumably the 8881 drives I have), whatever "physical" formatting involves (as opposed to "normal" formatting). Also, if anyone can offer some information on either purchasing or obtaining a public domain version of "ZASM", I'd be grateful. (I believe ZASM is needed to assemble the ZCPR3 sources from simtel20????). Any responses are probably best handled via e-mail. UUCP is ok, ARPA preferred (agv@s.cc.purdue.edu). Much thanks in advance.