cpm80 1.0a4

CP/M-80 2.2 emulator with API

cpm80

CP/M-80 2.2 emulator with Python API.

Based on the fast and flexible z80 emulator.

Installing

$ pip install cpm80

Running and terminating

$ cpm80

A>save 1 dump.dat
A>dir
A: DUMP     DAT
A>^C
A>^C
A>

Press Ctrl + C three times to exit.

Running commands automatically

From the command line:

$ cpm80 -c dir 'save 1 a.dat' dir

Alternatively, we can use the API's StringKeyboard class to feed arbitrary commands to the command processor, CCP, thus replacing KeyboardDevice console readers used by default:

import cpm80

COMMANDS = (
    'dir',
    'save 1 a.dat',
    'dir',
    )

console_reader = cpm80.StringKeyboard(*COMMANDS)
m = cpm80.I8080CPMMachine(console_reader=console_reader)
m.run()

string_keyboard.py

Output:

A>dir
NO FILE
A>save 1 a.dat
A>dir
A: A        DAT
A>

Getting output as a string

Similarly, we can replace DisplayDevice console writers used by default with custom writers to do special work for the emulator's output. For example, one could use a StringDisplay writer to gather the output into a string.

d = cpm80.StringDisplay()

m = cpm80.I8080CPMMachine(
    console_reader=cpm80.StringKeyboard('dir'),
    console_writer=d)

m.run()

print(d.string)

string_display.py

Making BDOS calls

BDOS calls can be performed on the machine object directly or by using convenience wrappers.

m = cpm80.I8080CPMMachine()

STR_ADDR = 0x100
m.set_memory_block(STR_ADDR, b'Hello $')
m.bdos_call(m.C_WRITESTR, de=STR_ADDR)

m.write_str('World!\n')

bdos_call.py

Working with files

Similarly, using BDOS wrappers one can manipulate files on disks.

drive = cpm80.DiskDrive()

m = cpm80.I8080CPMMachine(drive=drive)
m.make_file('file.txt')
m.write_file(f'bin(100) is {bin(100)}\n'.encode())
m.close_file()
del m

# Show the written contents of the file using another machine.
console_reader = cpm80.StringKeyboard('type file.txt')
m = cpm80.I8080CPMMachine(drive=drive, console_reader=console_reader)
m.run()

make_file.py