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#RonGilbert | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +1 
 Question for Mastodon: I have a bunch of CP/M 5.25 floppy disks that I want to "liberate" a bunch of Z80 code I did as a kid (the world needs to see my Space Invaders clone). Any ideas of a simple/easy to get read them? My CP/M machine is long gone. Tracking down old CP/M machines is outside the scope of easy.
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5f56cef9 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @de22920b the harder part may be getting that out of the disks; after that, is just matter of choosing an emulator
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ScummVM | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @de22920b the most accurate way might be to dump them with Kryoflux and convert them to a „readable“ image…
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Robert Anderberg 🕹️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @de22920b @82876015 might know.
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faf8d2f2 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @de22920b https://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/s_drives_howto.html gives you a lot of directions. Good luck!
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1743b490 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @de22920b I don't think they're on Mastodon, but gamehistory.org would almost certainly be interested in preserving that and putting it onto modern media.
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0310544e | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @de22920b I feel like this would be right up @1b2be89d 's alley?
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7a512c05 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @de22920b I gave away a cpm machine just recently. What a shame. Osborne portable. However,  surely a floppy drive is what you really need? Is there no cpm emulators about? Now I must research!