[Coco] CP/M on the CoCo? WAS: Group Wars (AMiga/A2) WAS: Fresh new retro computing article!

[L. Curtis Boyle]

There is also a CP/M emulator under OS-9 for the Coco as well. Good enough to run WordStar, Infocom games, Turbo Pascal, etc. (albeit quite slowly, depending on the app).

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On May 28, 2019, at 11:14 AM, James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> tonym wrote:
>> Nowadays,it's strictly CP/M and CoCO for me... 
> 
> I have often wondered if there was much of a retro following of CP/M... but have not researched it. There were so many different systems. I vaguely remember sitting down to a portable CP/M machine back in the early 80's and thinking it was cool. Would have wanted one, but way out of my budget.  
> 
> I saw a blurb that there was at least one Z80 card for the CoCo that allowed one to run CP/M. Does anyone have that? Did it run on a separate 80 column monochrome monitor. That would be kind of cool to re-create I think ... 
> 
> James