We have some things about CP/M. It can be released as a standard kernel of CP/M for Sprinter's hardware. But the other side it can be as Estex program which make CP/M environment and emulate CP/M calls. Let us know about your choice.

in my opinion there aren't difference between emulated or real cp/m. As standard kernel is better because cp/m will use all resources of sprinter and I think that emulated (as external program called via estex) can have some bug (when a CP/M program want to have access to hardware)... but it is only my opinion...

I think that only CP/M emulation is better for Sprinter.
May be CPMEMUL.EXE file, that will recall Estex routines like CP/M routines.

Alexander Shabarshin (shaos@mail.ru)

yes.. but you are sure that ALL programs written for CP/M can run under emulated CP/M?

I think almost all, if it's CP/M 2.2 compatible.
We can do that CP/M application will think that work with real disk, that have sectors with 128 bytes size, but CP/M BIOS emulation will have image of this disk in memory. The image maked from real files from current directory.
What do you think about this idea? :)


Alexander Shabarshin (shaos@mail.ru)

ah ok... it could be a possible solution.. :)