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Re: New Kaypro Emulator

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ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> writes:

> I have released a new Kaypro emulator on GitHub.  This all started
> during an ice storm and my desire to verify my archived Kaypro 4-84
> disks were properly archived.  I extended a publicly available Kaypro
> II emulator on GitHub, but I went a little overboard.  Now you have
> support for Kaypro II, Kaypro 4-84, TurboROM, KayPLUS, and Kaypro10.
> There is hard disk support for the Kaypro10 and TurboROM, and RTC and
> serial port for 4-84 variants.  You can run the program in terminal
> mode or natively using the chargen ROMs. NZ-COM is also installed on
> the TurboROM_nz.hd image with ZSDOS and date/time stamping support.
>
> Runs on Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and even Windows now.  The default mode is
> a standard 4-84 - Just run "izkaypro".
>
> If you want to run the "ultimate" Kaypro, do "izkaypro --model
> ultimate --chargen"
>
> That will give you the TurboROM version with HDs on drives A and B and
> drives C and D as floppy drives - plus NZ-COM on drive A (type "nzcom"
> to activate).
>
> Other ROMs will probably work, I just haven't tested them.  You can
> use a custom ROM via command line --rom. Do "izkaypro -h" to see
> options.
>
> The software is here and README.md has all the details.  Compile with
> "cargo build --release"
>
> https://github.com/eneilson-zz/izkaypro
>
> Enjoy,
> ECNeilson

This couldn't have come at a better time, for me.

Thanks

Daniel
sysop  | air & wave bbs
finger | calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw

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New Kaypro Emulator ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-03-06 07:36 -0600
  Re: New Kaypro Emulator Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-03-06 14:29 -0800
    Re: New Kaypro Emulator ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-03-06 17:06 -0600
  Re: New Kaypro Emulator Uwe Naß <unass@astro.uni-bonn.de> - 2026-03-07 11:11 +0100
    Re: New Kaypro Emulator ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-03-08 20:25 -0500
      Re: New Kaypro Emulator Uwe Naß <unass@astro.uni-bonn.de> - 2026-03-09 10:23 +0100
    Re: New Kaypro Emulator Uwe Naß <unass@astro.uni-bonn.de> - 2026-03-09 14:02 +0100
      Re: New Kaypro Emulator ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-03-09 16:58 -0400
  Re: New Kaypro Emulator Bryan <esnntp@wereboar.com> - 2026-03-07 10:20 -0500

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