Programmer's Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems
Damien Cymbal
I recently inherited a Visual 1050 that I am attemping to resurrect.
The docs I got include _CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating System
User's Guide_ from Digital Research.
In its forward, this manual mentions that the doc set should also
include:
_CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating System Programmer's Guide_
and
_Programmer's Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating
Systems_
I've found online copies of OSPG via google, but haven't found
anything concerning the utils guide. Did such it actually exist?
Does it exists by some other name?
Thanks.
dc
bud
French Lurker may have it. Wait and see if he responds when he comes
back on line.
salaam,
dowcom
--
http://community.webtv.net/dowcom/DOWCOMSAMSTRADGUIDE
DOShead Credo:
a) Try it! It might work.
b) GOTO a).
Barry Watzman
existed for both 8-bit and 16-bit Intel CPUs, and the 16-bit software
existed for Digital Research and MS-DOS operating systems).
Arobase, Salle multimédia
Interesting. Wasn't it fitted with a NEC uPD 7220 GDC?
What kind of screen do you have? (Size and resolution)
> I've found online copies of OSPG via google, but haven't found
> anything concerning the utils guide. Did such it actually exist?
> Does it exists by some other name?
The "Programmer's Utilities Guide for CP/M" (meaning: 8-bit)
was a second edition of the MAC guide, with chapters describing
RMAC, LIB, LINK, details of the REL and IRL files, etc.
The "Programmer's Utilities Guide for CP/M-86" was covering
RASM-86 and DDT-86.
The "Programmer's Utilities Guide for the PC DOS" was its
MS-DOS/PC DOS counterpart.
Another useful manual is the "SID User's Manual".
(As far as I know no ZSID User's manual was ever made.
As far as I know the last CP/M version of SID was 1.4.
MP/M, using so much the Z-80, had a ZSID v2.5, with
new commands dealing with PRL files, etc.
Inside my original DRI 8" disk, there were 2 photocopied
pages explaining those new commands.
Since CP/M Plus is a single user version of MP/M II,
I was using it. (You need to type A>zsid.prl, since
CP/M Plus only recognizes COM and SUB filetypes.
It is also mentioned in "The Amstrad CP/M Plus"
which is a must-have book for height-bitters.)
Yours Sincerely,
"French Luser"
Barry Watzman
Jeffrey W. Shook
I have searched widely for zsid.prl and it seems to be another
lost Digital Research program. Have you considered contributing it
and any other unique software on your "original DRI 8" disk" to the
Unoffical CP/M archive along with the text of the two photcopied
pages?
jws
===================================================================
Jeffrey W. Shook | sh...@mail.xchem.xsunysb.edu
Electronics Shop Supervisor, |
VMScluster & Network Manager | Anti-SPAM note:
Chemistry Department, SUNY | There are no x chars
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400 | in my E-Mail address.
===================================================================
Damien Cymbal
Thanks for the info. I will refine my search and give it another whirl.
In regards to the 1050, not sure about the NEC GDC as I haven't actually
cracked the case open yet. I do know that there is a 6502 in there used
as a video co-processor to help offload the Z80 which is interesting.
The monitor is just a 12 inch mono green-screen. It does 640x300. It is
labeled as Visual Technology, though somebody told me that it is actually
a Tatung OEM.
dc
"Arobase, Salle multimédia" <arobase1....@wanadoo.fr> wrote in
news:b577a9$8f3$1...@news-reader12.wanadoo.fr:
Per Ola Ingvarsson
Arobase, Salle multimédia <arobase1....@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>Interesting. Wasn't it fitted with a NEC uPD 7220 GDC?
Speaking of the 7220, does anyone know where to get information
about this chip? Preferably some kind of application note.
/pi
Arobase, Salle multimédia
> Speaking of the 7220, does anyone know where to get information
> about this chip? Preferably some kind of application note.
>
> /pi
Hello, "pi" !
I am intrigued by your request. What system do you have,
to be interested in the NEC uPD 7220 GDC ?
Yours Sincerely,
"French Luser"
Per Ola Ingvarsson
Arobase, Salle multimédia <arobase1....@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>Hello, "pi" !
>
>I am intrigued by your request. What system do you have,
>to be interested in the NEC uPD 7220 GDC ?
Hello "Multimedia Room"!
I have a Compis II. It (or at least the Compis I) uses the Intel
82720 GDC, which I believe is the same chip as the NEC uPD 7220,
which is also found in the Dec Rainbow Graphics Option card,
the Epson QX-10 and the japanese PC-98.
Maybe also in the NCR Decisionmate V.
Tomas K has a datasheet on http://compis.nu/ but I would like
to have a second source of information, since there are some
things that I cannot find in the Intel datasheet.
/pi
Arobase, Salle multimédia
There is a problem at this cybercafe: MS Outlook Express
can no longer reply directly to one individual (I tried to
send you a reply 5 times yesterday), however my public
answers to the comp.os.cpm Newsgroup apparently
reached the server. (This may be due to the "Internet
Fest" happening here. Monday, all the hard disks of
this cybercafe will be erased and reformatted.)
Since I am a fan of the Epson QX-10, which uses this
NEC uPD 7220 GDC, I have the original NEC data
sheet (and its Intel copy), and a few Application Notes.
However, it also depends on which programming language
you use. Don't forget that you send commands to the GDC
using two I/O ports. For instance, I was displaying a screen
full of characters, then zooming up and down, simply using
Mallard BASIC. So, you can play interactively with the GDC.
All my stuff is... well, not really sorted! (Meaning: I don't
know exactly where it is...)
If I managed to find it back, I could photocopy it for you.
In exchange, I need 2 things:
1) some information about COMAL on the COMPIS.
2) A Scandinavian correspondent who could buy me
a "palmtop computer" which was sold only in Scandinavia
(the HP Omnigo 700 LX). (I would like to have an access
to the Internet, and this seems to be the smallest portable
MS-DOS computer that was done to surf the Net.)
Yours Sincerely,
"French Luser"
Holger Petersen
>Hello, "pi" !
>There is a problem at this cybercafe: MS Outlook Express
>can no longer reply directly to one individual
No problem: Just start using your GMX-Account!
Pas de problemes: commence a utiliser la possibilitee avec GMX, s.v.p!
amicalement, Holger
Arobase, Salle multimédia
from "French Luser" of the comp.os.cpm Newsgroup
Hello, "pi" !
Back home, I noticed an error. Here is exactly what I refound
the last week-end:
- NEC "Product Description uPD7220/7220A" 3/86 v4.0
- NEC "Application Note uPD7220A" 3/85 v1.0
The "Product Description" contains:
1. Product Description
2. Application Note No.HCP4
3. Data Sheet
Since you seem mostly interested in the "Application Note", here
is its contents:
Chapter 1 Software
Chapter 2 Hardware
Chapter 3 Application Hints
Since you want to program, here is the contents of Chapter 1:
1.1 Drawing procedure
1.1.1 Notes
1.1.2 Selection of display memory modification mode
1.1.3 Calculation of the absolute starting address
1.1.4 Calculation of drawing direction and drawing parameters
1.1.5 Initiating drawing execution
1.2 Idle state flowchart
1.3 Display memory clear flowchart
1.4 Actual drawing example
1.4.1 Display memory clear
1.4.2 Line drawing
1.4.3 Quadrangle drawing
1.4.4 Circle drawing
1.4.5 Fan-shaped drawing
1.4.6 Graphics character drawing
1.4.7 Read-in character code (character mode)
1.4.8 Line, quadrangle, and circle drawing by character code
(character mode)
1.4.9 Graphics drawing (mixed character and graphics mode)
1.4.10 Idling-set operation
Ah! If only this bloody IBM Clown had been better designed, and
had used such a powerful (yet simple) GDC...
Yours Sincerely,
"French Luser"
Robert Juhasz
: Tomas K has a datasheet on http://compis.nu/ but I would like
: things that I cannot find in the Intel datasheet.
Seems to contain some useful code. I have looked at it but never used it...
Probably needs some changes to fit the Compis.
Robert - hackar också Compis ibland
George Czerw
The CP/M Plus Operating System Programmer's Guide and the Programmer's
Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems were NOT part of
the Visual 1050 package as shipped by Visual Technology, Inc. Those two
manuals were part of the CP/M Plus documentation set which was produced by
Digital Research, Inc., and which were available separately, from DRI, for
a fee, as I recall. As were following other manuals published by DRI:
the GSX-80 Graphics Extensions Programmer's and User's Guides.
Visual Technology also had available, for additional fees, both the
Visual 1050 Programmer's Technical Document, Version 1.0, and the Visual
1050 Maintenance Manual. Both manuals are bound and in the neighborhood
of 5/8' thick.
George
Last President (and holder of the complete archives) of the
Visual 1050 User's Group.
Reagan Thomas
Graphics Controller" dated Dec. 4, 1984.
I is quite a comprehensive manual, including the complete NEC data
sheet and programming examples (it's probably between 250 to 300 pages
of info).
As it happens, I'm quite familar with the uPD7220, having programmed
to it and using it in systems for about 10 years. If you have any
specific questions, I might be able to help out.
If you want a copy of the manual, mail me at fodder1 (at) ureach.com.
For further discussion, post to the group.
-RAT