Walnut Creek CP/M archive 1994 CD-ROM ISO image

[lynchaj]

Hi,
I had a copy of the Walnut Creek CP/M archive from 1994 on CD-ROM but unfortunately it was damaged. There are several files I cannot access.

Would anyone do me a favor and make an ISO image of the CD-ROM and upload it to an archive?

Thanks!

Andrew Lynch

[Sharkonwheels]

Walnut Creek at RetroArchive (http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/cdrom/) has the contents.


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[lynchaj]

Tony,
Excellent idea! I will use the website cloning tool to just recreate the ISO locally. THANK YOU!

Andrew Lynch

[ahm]

I will use the website cloning tool to just recreate the ISO locally.

Thought you only needed "several files"?

Anyway, it might be polite to ask Gene (http://vintage-computer.com/vcforum/member.php?u=166) before you suck up all his bandwidth.

[lynchaj]

Good point. Sorry about that Gene!

As for the CD-ROM I currently have, who knows what the versions are and I have no idea if Gene's file set version matches mine. Some files on the CD read occasionally and some won't read at all. My CD has either been damaged or the media is degrading. I have tried reading it on several drives but the results are mixed at best but it consistently won't read the whole thing.

Rather than create a munge of who knows what file versions, I think it'd be better and quicker to just start over with a clean set and rebuild from scratch. I keep the cloning tool on the "friendly" setting to keep the BW reasonable. Hopefully it won't be a problem

Thanks!

Andrew Lynch

[Floppies_only]

Walnut Creek at RetroArchive (http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/cdrom/) has the contents.

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I noticed that the file listing has a directory called "Commodore". Are those files for the Commodore Pet, or some other Commodore computer?

What computers can you use these files on?

Thanks in advance,
Sean

[CP/M User]

Floppies_only wrote:

I noticed that the file listing has a directory called "Commodore". Are those files for the Commodore Pet, or some other Commodore computer?

What computers can you use these files on?

The files I'm looking at are specific for C64 and C128 computers. For the C64 you'd need the Z80 Cartridge CPU (obviously) to run CP/M on it though! :-D Doesn't the C128 already have that Z80 built-in or am I confuised. C128 generally runs CP/M better from what I hear!

[geneb]

No problem on downloading the files - but you might want to stage it a bit. Jay from classiccmp.org is hosting the site for me.

The walnut creek directory is a straight copy from the CD I got years ago.

g.

[Zeela]

The files I'm looking at are specific for C64 and C128 computers. For the C64 you'd need the Z80 Cartridge CPU (obviously) to run CP/M on it though! :-D Doesn't the C128 already have that Z80 built-in or am I confuised. C128 generally runs CP/M better from what I hear!The C28 has a Z80 and runs CP/M fine, but a little slow. And yes, the C128 runs CP/M better than the C64. The CP/M cart for the C64 was an addon, and the CP/M support in the C128 was put in there from the begining.

// Z

[carlsson]

.. but according to the designers, the C128 CP/M mode was an after-construction when a salesman had promised CP/M without checking if the C64 CP/M cartridge would work .. which it didn't so they had to throw in a Z80 etc into the C128.

[Zeela]

.. but according to the designers, the C128 CP/M mode was an after-construction when a salesman had promised CP/M without checking if the C64 CP/M cartridge would work .. which it didn't so they had to throw in a Z80 etc into the C128.After-construction or not, it's still better than the C64 CP/M-cart. Especially a C128 together with a 1571-drive (or a C128D). That's the how I run CP/M for the moment.

// Z

[mistamidget]

I have a copy of the "November" 1994 walnut creek CD here, pm me if you want an iso put up on my web site.

[Sharkonwheels]

That might be interesting...I've yet to see a "complete" one online, from what I have heard other groaning about...


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