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CP/M OS

Software theme

An operating system that reached its peak just before the IBM-PC was released. It rapidly lost its market share to MS-DOS compatible OSes. Made 'open source' in 2001.

178
games
13
platforms
Davy Jones Locker (Amstrad CPC)
Davy Jones Locker
CPC 198?
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (Amstrad PCW)
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
PCW 1986
The Test (Amstrad CPC)
The Test
CPC 1990
Le Labyrinthe Aux Cent Calculs (Amstrad CPC)
Le Labyrinthe Aux Cent Calculs
CPC 1989
Monte Cristo (Amstrad CPC)
Monte Cristo
CPC 1988
Au Nom de L'Hermine (Amstrad CPC)
Au Nom de L'Hermine
CPC 1987
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (Amstrad CPC)
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
CPC 1984
Zilch (DEC PDP-1)
Zilch
PDP1 1980
Bob Winner (Amstrad PCW)
Bob Winner
PCW 1987
Sargon II (DEC PDP-1)
Sargon II
PDP1 198?
Wanderer (Altair MITS 8800)
Wanderer
ALTR ? *
Ballyhoo (Amstrad CPC)
Ballyhoo
CPC 1986
The 'license' granted in 2001 is by nature non-permanent and proprietary. It has not been OSI or FSF approved.
Right to use, distribute, modify, enhance and otherwise make available in a nonexclusive manner the CP/M technology as part of the "Unofficial CP/M Web Site" with its maintainers, developers and community.

I further state that as Chairman and CEO of Lineo, Inc. that I have the right to do offer such a license.

Lineo and its affiliates, partners and employees make no warranties of any kind with regards to this technology and its usefulness or lack thereof.

---
Bryan Sparks
CEO Lineo, Inc.

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Parent groups

Proprietary license, Source Code Available

Games by year

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The first CP/M OS video game was released on November 11, 1970.

Infocom, The Adventure Workshop and Dynacomp published most of these games.

Related site

The Unofficial CP/M Web site

Platforms

DEC PDP-1 56
Amstrad CPC 42
Coleco Adam 28
Memotech MTX 20
Altair 8800 7
Amstrad PCW 6
custom 4
TRS-80 4
Nascom 3
Sol-20 3
Apple II E 3
Elliott 1
ColecoVision 1

Most common companies

Infocom21
The Adventure Workshop9
Dynacomp6
Elliam Associates5
Continental Software5
River Software4
Retz3
Coktel Vision3
Creative Computing3
Megastar Games3
Nibbles & Bits2
Level 9 Computing2
Wow Software2
Floppy Software2
Yahoo Software2