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- This file is a short introduction to what it takes to set up an
- RCPM BBS system on the Commodore 128. It started out as a series of letters
- and ...
-
- Hi Gary ! Welcome to Uhura.
- If you want to get a RCPM system going for your 128 you will need
- 1) the DR offer assemblers and tools
- 2) the source for BYE510 you can get them from George Peace or
- likely any of the numbers listed in the CAL menu of IMP
- George Peace's instructions are great but are missing about 2
- points a] assemble B5-CPM3.ASM and B5-DRIV3.ASM with MAC, and
- b] GENCOM BYE[LOADER] after you HEXCOM B5-CPM3 and
- RENAME BYE.COM=B5-CPM3.COM
- this saves a couple of hundred bytes in the .COM files
- and keeps the loader active after BYE is called to start running the
- system.
- 3) a copy of B5C8-2.INS or -1E.ins on my system here.
- 4) a copy of my clock code of BYE and the C=128, I will try to keep a
- copy of the current code up till I hack together a complete .INS for
- general distribution. ... the regular B5C-CPM3.INs should have worked with
- non-interupt driven clock routien, but for some reason it will not work in
- the location BYE places the TIME: in !
- 5) a copy of CCP003+.LBR this is the alternate CCP that you see here. It's
- main feature is that it takes ERA and REN out, and requires them to be seperate
- .COM files. And so they can be kept where needed.
- Number 6 would have been a copy of PBBS3.LBR until a few days ago, perhaps I
- will find out what went wrong. This would add the Microsoft M80 assembler
- packlage to the tools you would need too.
- 1 through 5 will get you a basic RCPM system. It is the basis of most
- CPM BBS systems.
-
- Good Luck !
-
- Dave
-
- Dave,
- Thanks for the help and the advice. THe only problem I have right now
- is installing the insert. All the file editors that I have either will
- not allow me to insert another file, or will not handle the size of the
- file. I am going to solve that problem next week when my copy of
- NewWord arrives. Then I will be able to do the insert.
-
- I am pretty new to CPM and all that it entails, but I find that it is
- fasinating and a challenge. I am looking forward to an exchange of
- information as we each try and set up a working system on the 128.
-
- I already have copy of PBBS3, but I do not have the compiler, however a
- friend of mine does and he can do the compiling for me.
-
- Till later....
- Gary Eide
-
-
- Hi Gary,
- It is sort of easy to break bye up into parts that VDE can work on.
- PIP has an option to allow you to take text files apart and put them
- back together. from the * enter something like
- B1=bye510c.asm[QSubR^Z]<cr> <cr> is a carrage return and ^Z is the
- control Z that will create a file B1 that is the start of BYe510
- up to just befor the place to add the .INs.
- then at the *
- B2=Bye510c.asm[SSUBR^ZQWHOSIT:^Z]<cr>
- ^ = start at string
- ^ Q = stop at string
- B3=Bye510c.asm[SWHOSIT:^Z]<cr>
- the <CR> out of PIP and you have 3 files that you can edit and
- insert things into. when you want to compile use pip to
- bye5.asm=b1,B5C8-3.ins,b2,b3<cr>
- to make a complete file again. You can do a similar thing with the
- fully commented file too to get editable (with VDE).
-
- I am not sure about PBBs 3 now.. It isn't up here because of problems.
- Maby I will find a patch..
-
- Good Luck
- Dave
-
-
- BYE and the commodore 1670 1200 baud modem.
-
- The procedure outlined above works well with the C=128 and just about any
- Hayes compatable modem hung off an RS232 interface. The 1670 is not completly
- Hayes compatable, so some work is needed get around the incompatablity. I have
- a few ideas on how to accomplish this, but it requires someone with one of
- these modems and a little knowledge of 8080 assembler to implement these
- 'patches' and try them out.
- (I should say that I use the DUMB modem EQUates ie. say NO to IMODEM
- and B5IM.. this keeps things very simple, and will make future modification
- like FIDO compatability easier to implement. )
- First some sort of patch is needed in the NODTR section of Bye as the 1670
- doesnt support a DTR line. This is used to hang up the modem and keep it off
- while the system reinitializes. This can be done on the 1670 by outputting
- three plus signs and an S0=0. I am not sure if an AT is needed before the
- S0=0. Later an S0=1 must be given to get the modem to answer again.
- These simple mods should allow the 1670 to work,.. or atleast get it
- ready for the next set of patches!
- to answer again.
- These simple mods should allow the 1670 to work,.. or atleast get it
- ready for the next set of pat