fjkraan
Experienced Member
A long time ago I made a copy of the http://cerealport.homeip.net/cereal/px8/ directory, either from the original or
from http://oldcomputers.dyndns.org. Just recently I wanted to unpack all files to see what they contain. The file
'crtforpx.lbr' looked interesting, but it failed unpacking with unlbr. Nulu also didn't work. Finally CFX.EXE managed to
create a file list and the contents of the first file. The remainder of the files were empty.
The CRTFORPX.INF file was very informative, revealing the trick was to apply STAT CON:=TTY: to display the screen output
on a terminal or PC-based virtual terminal. The other files appear to be patched versions or patches for several programs
to make them aware of a 80x24 sizes display.
The CRTFORPX.INF file and all other files are available from https://electrickery.nl/comp/px8/oldcomputersPxdock/. Also in
unpacked fork on disk images at https://electrickery.nl/comp/px8/diskImages/index.html.
Some more on STAT on the PX-8 for this purpose: https://electrickery.nl/comp/px8/funWithSTAT.txt
Fred Jan
from http://oldcomputers.dyndns.org. Just recently I wanted to unpack all files to see what they contain. The file
'crtforpx.lbr' looked interesting, but it failed unpacking with unlbr. Nulu also didn't work. Finally CFX.EXE managed to
create a file list and the contents of the first file. The remainder of the files were empty.
File Name Length Method Date
============ ====== ======== ========
CRTFORPX.LBR 10240 Library 00-00-00
member name length method date
------------ ------ -------- --------
CRTFORPX.IQF 12288 Squeezed 00-00-00
E-CRT .CQM 7936 Stored 00-00-00
NSWP-CRT.CQM 10240 Stored 00-00-00
SPZ-CRT .CQM 7424 Stored 00-00-00
WSV .CQM 896 Stored 00-00-00
WSVP1 .CQM 896 Stored 00-00-00
WSVP2 .CQM 896 Stored 00-00-00
WSVP3 .CQM 896 Stored 00-00-00The CRTFORPX.INF file was very informative, revealing the trick was to apply STAT CON:=TTY: to display the screen output
on a terminal or PC-based virtual terminal. The other files appear to be patched versions or patches for several programs
to make them aware of a 80x24 sizes display.
The CRTFORPX.INF file and all other files are available from https://electrickery.nl/comp/px8/oldcomputersPxdock/. Also in
unpacked fork on disk images at https://electrickery.nl/comp/px8/diskImages/index.html.
Some more on STAT on the PX-8 for this purpose: https://electrickery.nl/comp/px8/funWithSTAT.txt
Fred Jan