Z80 Ampro Little Board CP/M (ZCPR3) Utilities

[DeltaDon]

I've dug out my Ampro Little Board (first version) that's been stored for way too long. I remembered that it had some nice utilities. DOS allows the a L.B. drive to emulate a PC DOS drive. DOSFMT allows formatting PC-DOS disks and to verify them. Also Verify needs to be run before the DOS utility will function. There's MULTIDSK which allows reading/writing other CP/M formats. Plus there's ESET which appears to be a 22DISK-like program. I don't believe that it allows saving a new format to a list.

 

[DeltaDon]

Follow up on my Little Board, it is the original version without SCSI port. I have it connected to two quad density 5.25" drives. T get it up and going I hooked a Legacy Pixels VT100 compatible terminal (uses PS2 keyboard & VGA output) via a DB25 to DB9 cable. I forgot that the L.B. didn't have a sign on message until it boots to CP/M-ZCPR3 and so I spun some wheels and time before I just stuck a diskette in drive a and saw the sign-on. So the L.B. and booted into quad density ZCPR3 disk and I ran Multidsk converting drive B: into a drive E: with Osborne I 48 tpi SS format. I then put an original OEM CBasic disk in Osborne format into E: and copied the disk to drive my quad density drive A. Worked perfectly. I think I have some other 5.25" CP/M disks for other computers floating around and may try copying a few more.