[Simh] disk image tools for altair simulator?

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did a small walk thru here:
>
> http://virtuallyfun.blogspot.com/2007/05/zork-lives-on-altair.html

Strangely enough, that is _exactly_ what I was planning on doing,
right down to the same Zork archive on retroarchive.org.

> Just remember to use the altair z80 emulator, and
> if you are on a *nix box you'll need to have the files
> you want to 'read' into it as upper case.

Yep... RedHat Linux in this case, and you don't have to rename
the files on the UNIX side if you add "L" after the filename...

I>B:READ ZORK1.COM L

READ V-2.22 (30-Dec-07) SIMH Interface V003
Read from "zork1.com" and write to "ZORK1.COM".

> I>b:read zork1.com
> READ V-2.22 (30-Dec-07) SIMH Interface V003
> Read from "ZORK1.COM" and write to "ZORK1.COM".
> PTR: unit is read only
> 8.5kB written.

*This* is the tool I was after.

> You get the idea..

>> Have I overlooked something in the simh distribution or on the
>> trailing-edge web page?

I think the key in this case is that I was using altcpm.dsk from the
swtools area of the simh webpage that doesn't have any sort of
read/write utility (plus I was using the 8080 altair emulator, not
knowing it might matter).

I built altairz80, then grabbed cpm2.zip from your blog entry, and it
looks just like what I was after.

Thanks for the pointer to the more complete software distro!

-ethan