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I have a copy of WordStar running on an Franklin Ace 1200 (Apple II+ clone from 1983)... it runs WordStar via a Z80 peripheral card that runs PCPI CP/M while ta
by TD-Linux 10y ago
I have a copy of WordStar running on an Franklin Ace 1200 (Apple II+ clone from 1983)... it runs WordStar via a Z80 peripheral card that runs PCPI CP/M while talking to the Apple 6502 to use the rest of the peripherals. So even then people were using workarounds to keep on running WordStar on newer hardware...
I still write letters with it and print them on my dot matrix printer. I certainly wouldn't reach for it over emacs in the modern era, though.
- pvg 10y agoYou can't call the Z80 card a 'workaround'! Shameless ingrate...
- TD-Linux 10y agoWell, I suppose it is one of the fastest CP/M computers around... especially because it's the PCPI Applicard (or rather, Franklin's licensed version) instead of the Microsoft Softcard, which means it runs at 6MHz and has its own dedicated 64k of RAM.
- vidarh 10y agoI always found it funny how many "plug in computers" existed as extensions back in the day. Lots of Z-80 cards or expansions for the 6502 based machines to run CP/M. The Sidecar and Bridgeboard for Amiga's to run x86 software... PPC cards (both Amiga specific and PCIe cards).. But we also have crazy new stuff like this[1], which provides an FPGA based emulation platform which can work standalone but which can also plug into a Commodore 64 to use it's peripherals, and emulate a C64 with extra capabilities. [1] http://www.vesalia.de/e_chameleon.htm http://www.vesalia.de/e_chameleon.htm