![]() Trs80gp provides accurate and near complete emulation with excellent programmer support. It should run well on any machine produced in the past decade. They may not be at full feature parity with the Windows version but the emulator runs just fine under Wine. Included in the download are versions for MacOS, Linux and Raspberry Pi. The emulator runs on Windows from XP all the way up to Windows 10. ![]() ![]() Īlso emulated are the TRS-80 DT-1 Data Terminal, TRS-80 Videotex and the Electric Crayon external colour display. The Model 1, 3 and 4 are a line of compatible computers as is the Model 2, 12. ![]() It is generally easier to use ordinary digits for the Model 1, Model 2 and Model 3. They are known as the Model I, Model II, Model III, Model 4, Model 4P, Model 4D, Model 12, Model 16 and Model 6000. I should mention, btw, that I did use EXPORT several times successfully, though I wasn't copying any COM files, only text files.Trs80gp primarily emulates the “gray” line of TRS-80 computers made by Tandy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. If anyone has any clue, please leave a comment. When I then used TRSTools to copy the files to a disk image, this worked, so I have to conclude there's some issue with the IMPORT. (This was after also copying ZORK1.DAT, which you need as well). This works in that you don't get any errors, and something is copied, but when I tried to execute ZORK1, it gave me weird, inconsistent results. So, for example, to make a disk image for Zork I, all you'd have to do is download the ZORK1.COM file, copy a blank disk image, and then type IMPORT ZORK1.COM ZORK1.COM. These are special CP/M programs that take advantage of hooks in the emulator to be able to transfer files to and from the local filesystem. This has a bunch of files on it, but the three COM files are EXPORT, IMPORT, and XTRS. Now, annoyingly, this disk image didn't load for me in MM CP/M, but I used TRSTools to copy the files to a usable blank disk image (you can download the result of this here, if you don't want to do this yourself). In the SDLTRS distribution is a subdirectory called diskimages, with a disk image called cpmutils.dsk. (I'll talk about setting up the hard drive in my next blog post, but at this point, just make sure to grab that disk image.) I put the executables on one DSK and the docs on another. I had to do this with the Hard Disk Drivers disk, which was larger than a DSK. The DMK may be a larger size than the DSK, so you may have to pick which files you don't need or copy them to multiple DSK images. the DMK will probably work in TRSTools, so you can copy the files to a temporary directory, then open a blank DSK and copy the files to that. It may very well work, so go ahead and try it. If it does come in DMK only, all is not lost. All the DSK's I downloaded worked without an issue, though, so if something comes in multiple formats, always pick the DSK. However, while SDLTRS does support DMK, I noticed that a lot of them were larger than the 166k floppy drives that the emulated machine supported, so it was hit-or-miss as to whether these worked out of the box. DSK and DMK are two virtual disk image formats, so either of these are potentially usable in SDLTRS. There are two ways to do this, which I'll discuss below. COM means that it's actually going to come as a binary program, not a disk image, so you'll need to copy it to a disk image to run it. Second, disks will be labeled as either of type COM, DSK, or DMK. I just got the last of the Montezuma Micro CP/M boot disks, and that's what I used. First, you don't need every CP/M boot disk that's out there. Now before you hop out to that site and start downloading everything like I did, you may want to pause a bit to avoid some mistakes I made.
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