BenRedic wrote:Cyberchess wrote:Wow! I haven’t loaded the CP/M operating system since my days as a student. Does anyone remember the Vi text editor? Yes, we actually used this archaic editor to compose computer code in the Unix environment with CP/M on the terminals. Back in those days we all owned or had access to PCs running DOS, so we played Sargon, Chessmaster, Psion, etc. through DOS exclusively.
Vi? Isn't that a precursor to Vim? I use that all the time.
As for my current CP/M exploits I now have a number of CP/M environments set up. In addition to my previously posted CPM player I have installed CP/M and set up disks with the chess programs under the MyZ80 emulator running under DOS, Z80Pack with CPMSIM under Linux, as well as a Commodore 128 (VICE) booting CP/M from a floppy image
Yes. Having just looked up Vim (a contraction of Vi Improved), I see that this version was released in ’91, and has the capability to run as a standalone app in a GUI. Prior to purchasing my first DOS based PC, I only had access to the original command line based Vi for writing code since it was included with Unix. Subsequent to owning my own PC, however, I would simply compose my code in my favorite DOS based text editor and save the file as pure ASCII text. Likewise, I would access our school’s network by means of terminal emulation and my USR 1200 baud phone modem, transfer the files using FTP, and save them to my network drive for compilation.
We also used the old dialup modem for playing terminal chess and accessing all those great BBS sites for technical info, email, entertainment, etc.
Linux is an excellent operating system, and I look forward building another Linux based system when time permits. As far as Windows based terminal emulation of the old Z80 and those early MPU based games go, I find that MAME (XMAME for Unix based systems) works really well and has been a work in progress since 1997.
http://mamedev.org/about.html
MAME is mostly used to emulate the vintage arcade game platforms allowing us to enjoy the original video games of our youth, but can also be used to emulate many of the popular chess computers sans real pieces, though I’ve never actually used it for such. Without a material chess set, we mind as well….
Just Play Software Regards,
John