A while back someone on the list posted a link to a zip of chipmunk
stuff they had collected. I don't remember who that was but I saved the
link here:
http://tandy.wiki/Chipmunk
It's a link to a google drive, but it's still working and the contents
of the zip are even a little newer than the zip I downloaded at the time.
In it there are 4 teledisk disk images and a copy of teledisk itself to
use with them.
You probably need a 360k drive (not 1.2m ideally) and an old pc that has
a floppy controller and running ms-dos. But if you can scrape that
together, it looks like you should be able to reproduce the disks.
Even if the pc doesn't have a 360k drive, you can probably temporarily
use the drive out of the chipmunk. So possibly all you really need is
just a motherboard of say 586-686 vintage, old enough to have a floppy
controller, new enough to have usb ports that can boot, and a thumb
drive with freedos.
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bkw
On 7/11/26 10:38, Greg Swallow wrote:
Howdy All,
Thanks again to Jeff for taking care of my M100 with the PCSG ROM Bank
and Chipmunk drive (links below). I have been having quite the time
writing programs to work with the Chipmunk. However, since I pieced this
all together in some cases by pure luck, I have yet to have a Utility
Diskette. Having only dreamed of owning this setup in the mid-80s, I had
forgotten the features and assumed the drive would function something
like the TPDD. I had forgotten what made the Chipmunk special to me was
the Chipmunk PDOS is in ROM onboard the drive, which means no boot disk
to load "FLOPPY.CO," and direct/RANDOM in BASIC to access files on the
drive. The Utility Disk does not boot, but it does have sample programs
and additional feature files that can be added to the M100; e.g. Up/Down
loading directly to/from diskette. That said, It looks like there are
files on GitHub (link below) to actually build the diskette, but before
I started on that, thought I would ask and see if anyone might have a
PCSG/Holmes Chipmunk Utility Disk and if they could send a copy my way?
Hey Birt:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm7JZaZ_crg
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RXk67DQ3n0
GitHub:
https://github.com/LivingM100SIG/Living_M100SIG/blob/main/M100SIG/
Lib-09-PERIFERALS/CHIPMK.CAT
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bkw
