Just joined and looking forward to being part of this forum.
I started with CP/M way back but its small size makes it ever relevant as an emulator port.
In the past I've used it on a PCMCIA card on a Amstrad NC100 notepad computer, then later again via a Homebrew MSX Emulator on the Nintendo DS, and separately on a Homebrew Amstrad CPC again on the Nintendo DS, on various CP/M emulators under DOS, and a couple of years back on a Raspberry Pi Pico over a terminal connection.
Drawn to this forum by the lure of CP/M in a webpage via Javascript , by way of Javascript provided DOSBox emulation.
Welcome Jameel! I now have two non-working Amstrad NC100 machines hoping to eventually have two fully working or at least one frankenstrad ;) Just got a hopefully working display in the mail today ...
I love CP/M too, and have quite a collection now of machines running it. For me it is like the linux of the 70s and early 80s :D
I have a working NC100!
Congratulations on having a working NC100.
If you have the right kind of PCMCIA card (it was one that had its own battery) then you can explore ZCN.
Too far back for me to remember now but hopefully the instructions on installing on a NC100 are still out there somewhere.
On another note, for modest word-proccesor requirements, Protext in my view is still one of the best best. I loved the key combination that allowed you to address one of the most common typing mistakes. Two consecutive characters the wrong way around.
Jameel Siddiq yep I needed it for saving basic programs too, fortunately my Apple Newton had the correct card with it so cleaned it up and popped that in :)
I found a youtube video that links to the project, I am glad to see you can still get back to the original OS and even run BBC BASIC still after adding CP/M!
Brilliant, win-win all round
Thanks Chris.
I mean often you don't need overkill to do the job and CP/M still works.
Turbo Pascal was one of the earliest integrated Development Environments and dBASE II probably still meets a lot of people's Database needs.
There old but a couple of links to past contributions on NC100 are :-
https://www.ncus.org.uk/fnov00.htm
And
https://www.ncus.org.uk/qanda_software.htm
(See down the page on ZCN - a CP/M Clone)
Jameel Siddiq will check those out! and completely agree, the fact they still tried to get CP/M to work on the C128 all those years later suggests to me it still had a place in the industry
Just to add that the link below gives you details on ZCN :-