Running CP/M on the C128

I owned a C64 and was familiar with the C128, but this one was odd. It wasn't running any games, color graphics or playing music. Instead, it was connected to a monochrome monitor which always displayed either a weird command line prompt or what seemed to be some boring professional writing software.

I soon came to find that it was running CP/M and WordStar, one of the first word processors for microcomputers. My daily obsessive visits to the computer shop led to some friendship with the owner, to the point that he'd let me in and play with the machines. So, I played with CP/M and learned how to use WordStar.

Well, in case you didn't notice, I own a C128DCR now. This blog is about how I got CP/M, WordStar, and other fun ancient software apps running on it.

Celso Martinho

CP/M, of course, was the primary influence of DOS.