===================================================== Quick Start Guide to running 86-DOS on SIMH/AltairZ80 Howard M. Harte, June 5, 2008 - www.86dos.org ===================================================== 0. Unzip all files from the archive into a directory on your PC. 1. Then run the AltairZ80 simulator using the scp86mon startup script. 2. Press a few times to get the SCP 8086 Monitor '>' prompt. 3. Type 'B' at the monitor prompt (uppercase) to boot 86-DOS. 4. Enter a date, note that 86-DOS is not Y2K compliant, and will reject recent dates. 5. 86-DOS Manuals are available from: http://www.patersontech.com/dos/manuals.aspx ===================================================== =========== Transcript of booting 86-DOS ============ ===================================================== C:\86DOS>AltairZ80.exe 86dos Altair 8800 (Z80) simulator V3.8-0 build 1000 (scp created Jun 22 2008 at 08:01: 48) 2047 bytes [8 pages] loaded at 0. 2047 bytes [8 pages] loaded at ff800. Mapped CCS2810 UART Status at 0x26 Press to get monitor prompt, then type 'B' to boot SCP 8086 Monitor 1.5 >B ? 86-DOS version 1.00 Copyright 1980,81 Seattle Computer Products, Inc. Enter today's date (m-d-y): 2-2-82 COMMAND v. 1.00 A:dir COMMAND COM 1842 04-28-81 RDCPM COM 1310 04-30-81 CHKDSK COM 1110 04-24-81 TRANS COM 3088 04-24-81 ASM COM 6389 04-28-81 DEBUG COM 5153 04-29-81 EDLIN COM 2144 04-28-81 HEX2BIN COM 483 04-18-81 SYS COM 154 04-24-81 MAKRDCPM COM 303 04-30-81 INITLARG COM 509 04-28-81 INITSMAL COM 507 04-28-81 CPMTAB ASM 1072 04-30-81 BOOT ASM 2602 04-28-81 INIT ASM 5595 04-28-81 DOSIO ASM 24277 04-30-81 MON ASM 35502 04-28-81 NEWS DOC 1404 04-28-81 NEW BAT 101 04-24-81 A:chkdsk 3072 bytes unallocated disk space freed 19 disk files 245760 bytes total disk space 146944 bytes remain available 0 bytes total system RAM 1036448 bytes free A: