Hand-rolling a CP/M machine

[Ethan Dicks]

On 4/24/07, Warren Wolfe <wizard at voyager.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:01 -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > Ah... now we are onto something - games... are there many games for
> > CP/M that require a video card, or were most happy with whatever sort
> > of TTY-type device (ANSI codes or not) was out there?
>
>
>     Video card manufacturers often produced games.

Fair enough.  Any really interesting ones to recommend?

>  Probably the most
> common target video card was the VDM-1 card... VDM-1 cards require
> S-100 bus, or massive hacking.  That makes them, probably, outside the
> parameters of the "quickest and cheapest" setup you've set.

My SDS Z80 Starter Kit already has two S100 slots built in, so the
only expense to outfit that one is a 100-pin backplane connector.
I'll keep it in mind as an upgrade for later.

Thanks,

-ethan