Z88 CP/M or other software available beside the onboard one?

[theancientone]

I got a Z88 as present from a coworker, and started to look at it and found it very interesting. It is not my first slab-computer as I have a NC100 too, but I was curious about what can you do with it, beside what is on the onboard ROM.

Pipedream is a nice text/spreadsheet software but I was wondering if it could run CP/M, and use all that software existing for it. Is that possible? Or is the Z88 limited to be a "typing machine" for most part? Thanks

 

[cj7hawk]

I was wondering if it could run CP/M, and use all that software existing for it. Is that possible? Or is the Z88 limited to be a "typing machine" for most part? Thanks

I have heard of it running CP/M, but can't recall where.

The only other OS that showed up when I went looking was linked to an emulator -

OZ is available - https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki/spaces/OZ/overview

Welcome - Cambridge Z88

cambridgez88.jira.com

There's some uncertain ports of CP/M to what I think is this emulator -

And I do recall previous discussion around this topic and forum posts elsewhere of people running CP/M on a z88, but I couldn't recall where I read them.

 

[theancientone]

Thanks; looks like it could be possible to run CPM 2.2 but it is not clear to me how to translate from the emulator to the actual hardware

 

[gertk]

Thanks; looks like it could be possible to run CPM 2.2 but it is not clear to me how to translate from the emulator to the actual hardware

You probably need to swap the ROM, add more RAM and add some storage solution.

It does run BBC basic in stock mode AFAIK, but I haven't played with it for ages.