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Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros

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Subject Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros
Date Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:22:33 -0600
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On 2/18/26 10:59 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 2/14/26 18:06, ECNeilson wrote:

>    This is great!
> 
>    And who gives a rat's ass about Windows support. ;)

So true!  I did end up adding a Windows build. The terminal I/O isn't 
nearly as fast as the Linux/OSX variants, but I didn't compromise 
performance on the Unix side of things.

I also just added Western Digital WD1002·05 hard disk controller 
emulation to get HD support (that was a bear!).  You can now run a 
Kaypro10 with ./izkaypro --model=kaypro10 .  Drives A and B are 5MB hard 
disks, and drive C is the floppy per the original Kaypro10.  It's 
running the 2.2u1 BIOS.

Then I went a little bit crazy and decided to make the penultimate 
Kaypro!  The new machine is a Kaypro 4-84 running the TurboROM 3.4 BIOS 
plus HD support -and you get the RTC and serial port to boot!  Just run 
./izkaypro --model=turbo_rom_hd .

With the TurboROM BIOS, drives A and B are 5MB HD partitions and you get 
two floppy drives, drives C and D, just like you would have if you 
attached an HD to your original 4-84.

This should keep the Kaypro people quite happy, all 50 of us.

ECNeilson

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Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-02-09 08:49 -0600
  Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros Fritz <freiwiederwind1@hotmail.de> - 2026-02-09 16:03 +0100
  Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros John <john@somewhere> - 2026-02-09 13:47 -0600
    Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-02-14 17:06 -0600
      Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2026-02-15 04:47 +0000
        Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-02-16 22:32 -0600
      Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2026-02-18 11:59 -0500
        Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-02-25 23:22 -0600
          Re: Fixing MOVCPM for Kaypros John <john@somewhere> - 2026-02-26 20:35 -0600

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