86-DOS 1.0 [SCP OEM] [SCP Cromemco 4FDC]

Description

86-DOS 1.0 [SCP OEM] [SCP Cromemco 4FDC] (4-30-1981) (8 inch SSSD)

Get 86-DOS 1.0 with emulator for free. 86-DOS was createdto boost the sales of the Seattle Computer Products 8086 computer kit. The only software that SCP could sell with the board was Microsoft’s Standalone Disk BASIC-86, which Microsoft had developed on a prototype of SCP’s hardware. 

Release notes

This is the Seattle Computer Products 86-DOS “1.00” release, on which PC/MS-DOS was based. It is specifically for the 8086 SCP S-100 system with Cromemco 4FDC disk controller.

It includes a Z80 to 8086 translator for porting CP/M application.

86-DOS 1.0 Changelog

The following features were added to 86-DOS:

• DIR can now display modification date of files.
• Added batch file support
• Console, printer and auxiliary I/O devices may now be referenced with filenames.
• File Size calculation updated
• Sector sizes other than 128 bytes now supported.
• Double density disks supported (Tarbell DD).
• New features added to DEBUG.
• Files too large to fit into memory can now be edited by EDLIN.
• EDLIN can now discard unsaved changes.
• Performance improvements to the assembler, complete handling of ESC code for generating 8087 opcodes added.
• A load offset can now be specified for HEX2BIN.
• Wildcard support added to RDCPM.
• Directory entry size now expanded to 32 bytes.

Installation instructions

This archive contains a bootable disk image in ImageDisk format
(256 KB 8-inch Single Sided floppy disks).

Important: This disk is NOT for IBM PC compatible hardware or IBM PC emulators.

The included emulator emulates the appropriate 8086 CPU and FDC cards.

Start the emulator with the configuration file, then press enter several times to get to the monitor, then enter uppercase “B” to boot DOS.

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