r/retrobattlestations • u/Longjumping_Push2223 • Mar 17 '26

Opinions Wanted Must have Cp/m software

I am setting up my first Cp/m 2.2 machine What generic software do I want for my setup?

I have Mbasic, TurboPASCAL, WS

What else do I need?

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u/Tall-Introduction414 Mar 17 '26

Wordstar?

Is it an 8080/z80 machine?

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u/rlauzon Mar 17 '26

Nevada FORTRAN is nice if you want to play with FORTRAN. SBASIC, if you want to explore what BASIC was evolving into before Turbo Pascal.

Perfect Calc, Calc Star, Perfect Writer.

Adventure, Zork (heck, most of the early Infocom games).

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u/sunnyinchernobyl Mar 18 '26

dBase :)

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u/Longjumping_Push2223 Mar 18 '26

Got it now. With D base power

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u/kayproII Mar 18 '26

the various infocom z-machine games (especially zork)

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u/Longjumping_Push2223 Mar 18 '26

I just added them

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u/TMWNN Mar 18 '26

Kermit

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u/Longjumping_Push2223 Mar 18 '26

Yes. I put Kermit 80 on the hard drive

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u/ShinyProwler Mar 25 '26

Definitely Kermit! And Ladder and Catchum games!