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In summary, CP/M files are placed inside of a pre-defined Windows |
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directory structure. A script is then run to create the floppy and |
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hard disk images from the directory tree contents. The resultant |
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images may be copied directly to floppy or hard disk media or used |
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for SIMH emulator disk images. |
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images may be copied directly to floppy or hard disk media or used as |
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SIMH emulator disk images. |
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System Requirements |
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install it (free download). |
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The cpmtools toolset is used to generate the actual disk images. |
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This toolset is included in the distribution. |
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This toolset is included in the distribution, so you do not need to |
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download or install it. |
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Preparing the Source Directory Contents |
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The script expects your files to be found inside a specific directory |
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structure. Note that you will see there are some CP/M files in the |
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Source directory tree in the distribution. These are simply test |
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files I used and have no specific meaing. You will probably want to |
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replace them with your own files as desired. |
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If you look at the Images directory, you will find 4 |
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sub-directories. fd0 and fd1 will contain the files to be placed in |
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the two floppy images gneerated. hd0 and hd1 will contain the files |
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to be used to generate the two hard disk images. There is nothing |
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magic about the fact that there are two of each kind of image |
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generated. It just seemed like a good number to the author. A quick |
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review of the scripts and you will see it is very easy to modify the |
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number of images generated if you want. |
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For floppy disks, the structure is: |
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fd0 --+--> u0 |
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structure. The structure is: |
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d_xxx --+--> u0 |
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+--> u1 |
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+--> u2 |
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+--> u15 |
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Above, fd0 refers to the first floppy disk image and u0...u15 refer |
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to the user areas on the disk. You place whatever files you want on |
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fd0, user 0 in the fd0\u0 directory. You will notice that not all of |
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the u0...u15 directories exist. The script does not care and treats |
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a non-existent directory as a directory with no files. The fd1 |
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directory is exactly the same as fd0 -- it is simply the second |
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floppy image. |
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A given disk is reprsented by a directory named d_xxx where xxx can |
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be anything you want. Within the d_xxx directory, the CP/M user |
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areas are represented by subdirectories names u0 thru u15. The files |
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to be placed in the disk image are placed inside of the u0 thru u15 |
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directories depending on which user area you want the file(s) to |
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appear. You do not need to create all of the u## subdirectories, |
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only the ones corresponding to the user areas you want to put files in. |
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To build the disk images, you run the Build.cmd batch file from a |
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command prompt. Build.cmd in turn invokes separate scripts to create |
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the floppy and hard disk images. |
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As distributed, you will see that there are several d_ directories |
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populated with files. If you look at the BuildFD.ps1 and BuildHD.ps1 |
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scripts, you will find that the names of each of these directories is |
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listed. If you want to add a new d_ directory to be converted into a |
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disk image, you will need to add the name of your new directory to |
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this list. Note that each d_ directory may be turned into a floppy |
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image or a hard disk image or both. |
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At present, the scripts assume that the floppy media is 1.44MB. You |
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will need to modify the scripts if you want to create different media. |
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For hard disks, the structure has one more level: |
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hd0 --+--> s0 --+--> u0 |
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+--> s1 --+--> u0 |
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+--> s2 --+--> u0 |
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+--> s3 --+--> u0 |
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+--> u1 |
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+--> u15 |
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The above uses the same concept as the floppy disk source structure, |
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but includes an additional directory layer to represent the first 4 |
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slices of the hard disk. For most RomWBW builds, s0-s3 would show up |
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as the first 4 hard disk drive letters, frequently E: to H:. |
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No files should be placed in the first two layers of the tree (hd0 or |
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s0-s3). All files go into the lowest level of the tree (u0-u15). As |
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above, empty or non-existent directories are not a problem for the |
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script. Just fill in or create the appropriate directories. The |
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only constraint is the the script will only look for two hard disks |
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(hd0-hd1), 4 slices (s0-s4), and 16 user areas (u0-u15). The number |
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of hard disks and number of slices could be changed by modifying the |
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generation scripts. |
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Building the Images |
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The image creation process simply traverses the directory structures |
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described above and builds a raw image each floppy disk or hard |
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disk. Note that cpmtools is used to generate the images and is |
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described above and builds a raw disk image for each floppy disk or |
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hard disk. Note that cpmtools is used to generate the images and is |
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included in the distribution under the Tools directory. |
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The scripts are intended to be run from a command prompt. Open a |
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command prompt and navigate to the Images directory. To build the |
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floppy disk images (fd0 and fd1), use the command "BuildFD". To build |
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the hard disk images (hd0, hd1), use the command "BuildHD". You can |
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use the command "BuildAll" to build both the floppy and hard disk |
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images in one run. |
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floppy disk images, use the command "BuildFD". To build the hard disk |
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images, use the command "BuildHD". You can use the command "Build" |
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to build both the floppy and hard disk images in one run. |
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After completion of the script, the resultant image files are placed |
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in the Binary directory with names such as fd0.img and hd0.img. |
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in the Binary directory with names such as fd_xxx.img and hd_xxx.img. |
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Below is sample output from building the hard disk images: |
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| C:\Users\WWarthen\Projects\N8VEM\Build\RomWBW\Images>BuildHD |
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| C:\Users\Wayne\Projects\RBC\Build\RomWBW\Source\Images>BuildHD.cmd |
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| Creating work file... |
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| Creating hard disk images... |
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| Generating Hard Disk 0... |
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| Adding files to slice 0... |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 slice0.tmp Source/hd0/s0/u0/*.* 0: |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 slice0.tmp Source/hd0/s0/u2/*.* 2: |
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| Adding files to slice 1... |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 slice1.tmp Source/hd0/s1/u0/*.* 0: |
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| Adding files to slice 2... |
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| Adding files to slice 3... |
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| Combining slices into final disk image hd0... |
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| slice0.tmp |
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| slice1.tmp |
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| slice2.tmp |
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| slice3.tmp |
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| 1 file(s) copied. |
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| Generating Hard Disk 1... |
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| Adding files to slice 0... |
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| Adding files to slice 1... |
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| Adding files to slice 2... |
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| Adding files to slice 3... |
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| Combining slices into final disk image hd1... |
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| slice1.tmp |
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| slice2.tmp |
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| 1 file(s) copied. |
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| Generating Hard Disk cpm3... |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_cpm3.img d_cpm3/u0/*.* 0: |
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| Generating Hard Disk cpm22... |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_cpm22.img d_cpm22/u0/*.* 0: |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_cpm22.img d_cpm22/u1/*.* 1: |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_cpm22.img d_cpm22/u3/*.* 3: |
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| Generating Hard Disk nzcom... |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_nzcom.img d_nzcom/u0/*.* 0: |
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| Generating Hard Disk ws4... |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_ws4.img d_ws4/u0/*.* 0: |
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| Generating Hard Disk zpm3... |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_zpm3.img d_zpm3/u0/*.* 0: |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_zpm3.img d_zpm3/u10/*.* 10: |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_zpm3.img d_zpm3/u14/*.* 14: |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_zpm3.img d_zpm3/u15/*.* 15: |
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| Generating Hard Disk zsdos... |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_zsdos.img d_zsdos/u0/*.* 0: |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_zsdos.img d_zsdos/u1/*.* 1: |
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| cpmcp -f wbw_hd0 hd_zsdos.img d_zsdos/u3/*.* 3: |
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| Moving images into output directory... |
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| C:\Users\Wayne\Projects\RBC\Build\RomWBW\Source\Images\hd_cpm22.img |
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| C:\Users\Wayne\Projects\RBC\Build\RomWBW\Source\Images\hd_cpm3.img |
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| C:\Users\Wayne\Projects\RBC\Build\RomWBW\Source\Images\hd_nzcom.img |
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| C:\Users\Wayne\Projects\RBC\Build\RomWBW\Source\Images\hd_ws4.img |
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| C:\Users\Wayne\Projects\RBC\Build\RomWBW\Source\Images\hd_zpm3.img |
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| C:\Users\Wayne\Projects\RBC\Build\RomWBW\Source\Images\hd_zsdos.img |
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| 6 file(s) moved. |
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| C:\Users\WWarthen\Projects\N8VEM\Build\RomWBW\Images> |
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| C:\Users\Wayne\Projects\RBC\Build\RomWBW\Source\Images> |
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Be aware that the script always builds the image file from scratch. |
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It will not update the previous contents. Any contents of a |
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To install a floppy image on floppy media, you can use the tool |
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called RaWriteWin. This tool is included in the Tools directory of |
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the distribution. This tool will write your floppy image (fd0.img or |
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fd1.img) to a floppy disk using a raw block transfer. The tool is |
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GUI based and it's operation is self explanatory. |
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the distribution. This tool will write your floppy image (fd_xxx.img) |
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to a floppy disk using a raw block transfer. The tool is GUI based |
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and it's operation is self explanatory. |
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To install a hard disk image on a CF card or SD card, you must have |
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the appropriate media card slot on your computer. If you do, you can |
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use the tool called Win32 Disk Imager. This tool is also included in |
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the Tools directory of the distribution. This tool will write your |
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hard disk image (hd0.img or hd1.img) to the designated media card. |
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This tool is also GUI based and self explanatory. |
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hard disk image (hd_xxx.img) to the designated media card. This tool |
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is also GUI based and self explanatory. |
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Use of the SIMH emulator is outside of the scope of this document. |
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However, if you use SIMH, you will find that you can attach the hard |
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disk images to the emulator with lines such as the following in your |
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SIMH configuration file: |
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| attach hdsk0 hd0.img |
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| attach hdsk0 hd_cpm22.img |
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| set hdsk0 format=HDSK |
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| set hdsk0 geom=T:520/N:256/S:512 |
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your running CP/M system. Boot your system using the ROM selection, |
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then use the SYSCOPY command to make the desired drive bootable. |
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You would use a command like the following to make drive C bootable. |
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You would use a command like the following to make drive C bootable: |
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Slices |
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A RomWBW CP/M filesystem is fixed at 8MB. This is because it is the |
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largest size filesystem supported by all common CP/M variants. Since |
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all modern hard disks (including SD Cards and CF Cards) are much |
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larger than 8MB, RomWBW supports the concept of "slices". This |
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simply means that you can concatenate multiple CP/M filesystems (up |
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to 256 of them) on a single physical hard disk and RomWBW will allow |
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you to assign drive letters to them and treat them as multiple |
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independent CP/M drives. |
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The disk image creation scripts in this directory will only create a |
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single CP/M file system (i.e., a single slice). However, you can |
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easily create a multi-slice disk image by merely concatenating |
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multiple images together. For example, if you wanted to create a 2 |
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slice disk image that has ZSDOS in the first slice and Wordstar in |
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the second slice, you could use the following command from a Windows |
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command prompt: |
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| C:\RomWBW\Binary>copy /b hd_zsdos.img + hd_ws.img hd_multi.img |
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You can now write hd_multi.img onto your SD or CF Card and you will |
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have ZSDOS in the first slice and Wordstar in the second slice. |
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The concept of slices applies ONLY to hard disks. Floppy disks are |
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not large enough to support multiple slices. |
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RomWBW comes with several disk images. These disk images are |
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created from this directory using the process described above. |
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This is a brief description of the disk images: |
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cpm22 - DRI CP/M 2.2 (Floppy and Hard Disk) |
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Standard DRI CP/M 2.2 distribution files along with a few commonly |
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used utilities. |
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zsdos - ZCPR1 + ZSDOS 1.1 (Floppy and Hard Disk) |
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Contains ZCPR1 and ZSDOS 1.1. This is roughly equivalent to the |
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ROM boot contents, but provides a full set of the applications |
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are related files that would not all fit on the ROM drive. |
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nzcom - NZCOM (Floppy and Hard Disk) |
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Standard NZCOM distribution. Note that you will need to run the |
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NZCOM setup before this will run properly. You will need |
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to refer to the NZCOM documentation. |
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cpm3 - DRI CP/M3 (Floppy and Hard Disk) |
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Standard DRI CP/M 3 adaptation for RomWBW that is ready to run. |
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It can be started by running CPMLDR. |
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zpm3 - ZPM3 (Floppy and Hard Disk) |
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Simeon Cran's ZCPR 3 compatible OS for CP/M 3 adapted for RomWBW and |
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ready to run. It can be started by running CPMLDR (which seems |
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wrong, but ZPMLDR is somewhat broken). |
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ws4 - WorkStar 4 (Floppy and Hard Disk) |
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Micropro Wordstar 4 full distribution. |
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bp - BPBIOS (Hard Disk only) |
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Adaptation of BPBIOS for RomWBW. This is not complete and NOT |
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useable in it's current state. |
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Notes |
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Wayne Warthen
6 years ago