Re: Teeny equivalent for Starlet (PC-8401a) or PC-8500?

Well, I tried STARDISK with DLPlus, but it doesn't seem to work.
DLPlus in verbose mode does announce that it received a command from
STARDISK, but STARDISK just hangs. Of course there's no source for
STARDISK either.

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:33 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <jhoger@...> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Gary Lee Phillips
<tivo.overo@...> wrote:
>> Except of course that the Starlet already boots CP/M from its own ROM.
>
> Well hopefully those PDFs you made will shed some light. I am not sure
> how this works. I know that if you boot with an external drive
> (ramdisk or floppy) then you can get the CP/M to all-RAM mode. I don't
> know at that point whether you're running BDOS off of the ROM or a
> replacement loaded from the floppy. Anyway, I know it is possible
> since in CP/M mode you are running all RAM, so it can be patched one
> way or another.
>
>> So in that case, there's no need to boot from the TPDD. Getting the
>> BIOS to recognize a TPDD as a drive, though, would be labyrinthine
>> indeed, since it's all set in ROM rather than patchable memory I
>> think. I agree, to get a Model 10x to run CP/M from a TPDD seems
>> possible, but requires some major code to be written, and that wasn't
>> my goal. I just want to be able to share the TPDD disks between M100
>> and Starlet.
>
> Sounds like your "extra work" deflector is in working order 
> Message received and ack'd.
>
> -- John.
>