Welcome to the Wonderfully Ancient World of CP/M
 Cpmtools Executables for Windows Users
Wild Turkey
The Wild Turkey Distribution
Introduction

Cpmtools is a suite of command line utilities which allow access to CP/M file systems. It is available on many platforms. This document is targetted at the use of the cpmtools Win32 executables at the Windows command prompt by Windows users who know how to use command line utilities and disk images and who may not wish to create cpmtools executables from source code... just to use them.

Cpmtools is copyright 1997-2013 Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de> and copyright 2000, 2001, 2011 John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.

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Licence

Cpmtools is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Cpmtools is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should receive a copy of the GNU General Public License along with cpmtools. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

The contents of this document are either part of cpmtools or provide additional information about using cmptools. You can redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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Downloads

The source for the latest "official" version of cpmtools is available as a GNU zipped tape archive from:

http://www.moria.de/~michael/cpmtools/

Cpmtools For Windows Users

Cooked Turkey
A Forked Version

The Wild Turkey Distribution of cpmtools has been forked from the "official" version and was "cooked-up" by Tom Burnett (using gcc under MinGW) with a recipe that we believe better suits the native Windows environment. Unlike earlier binaries that were distributed from this website which were built under cygwin, MinGW's binaries are free from dependence on "dll-hell" bloatware baggage, and run more quickly using MinGW's native Windows calls. We also believe Wild Turkey is less likely to cause other problems under Windows (like "gobbling-up" memory) than the "official" cpmtools source. (Tom's Alloc became Turkey Alloc as Thanksgiving 2013 and his MinGW solution roughly coincided.)

Native Win32 cpmtools Binaries (Executables) are available from the www.cpm8680.com Website in a zip file format:

http://www.cpm8680.com/cpmtools/cpmtoolsWin32.zip

The cpmtools source used to build the Windows binaries (Executables) is included in the zip file.

To install cpmtools, just unzip with pathnames intact to the root of your local drive (usually C:). A Windows XP Shortcut has been added to the \cpmtools directory for Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 Users.

To run cpmtools, just click on this shortcut in Windows Explorer. This shortcut can also be copied to the desktop. Users of earlier versions of Windows that support Win32 can run cpmtools from the Windows command prompt in the \cpmtools directory or by running cpmtools.bat (also provided). The \cpmtools direcory can also be added to the Windows path environment variable.

The document you are reading and the program description documents that it links to are included in the Windows zip file. To use them just click-on them from Windows explorer in the \cpmtools\docs directory and they will load into your favorite web browser.

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The Wild Turkey Distribution has the following customizations:

The default disk image format is apple-do. This means that if you are working with Apple II DOS 3.3 order disk images you never need to include the -f apple-do format option when typing in your command line.

The diskdefs file is called \cpmtools\diskdefs. This has been hardcoded into the executables.

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The Wild Turkey Distribution has the following features:
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CP/M Resources

Compilers

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Other CP/M Resources

CP/M resources on the Internet that can be used in conjunction with cpmtools are too numerous to mention. Some are listed below:
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Caveat Emptor

The contents of this document are either part of cpmtools or provide additional information about using cpmtools. It is targetted primarily at Windows users but most of it applies to all users of cpmtools.

It is provided in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. In particular, Bill Buckels has no warranty obligations or liability resulting from its use in any way whatsoever. If you don't agree then don't read it.