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SuperCalc 2 - Graham72 - 06-09-2025
My first experience of a spreadsheet was a combined basic/machine code program on the Microbee circa late 1984. I loved it. Preferred it to wordprocessors due to being able to process numbers so easily.
Through the next 5 years I used spreadsheets on the Osborne 1, original IBM PC, Amstrad PPC 640, and Amstrad PCW512. My prowess was great, all singing all dancing. However my supplementary income stream came from programming in dBase 2/3, R-Base and Clipper.
My favourite was SuperCalc ™, with shout outs & fond memories to Multiplan, PC Calc and the original Excel, and a few years playing with T-Maker on the PCW512. Supercalc was my friend through versions 2-5.1
It was great to find Multiplan in the repository. BUT... suffice to say that I really wanted to experience SUPERCALC again. (I'm supposed to be relearning BASIC to keep my brain nimble but distractions you know).
Immediate downloads I found on line were missing overlay programs or were corrupted. I managed to get a version working that had no cursor visible in the cells, only the address visible in the bottom left. Not bad I thought, but the spreadsheets wouldn't save, with the program hanging.
I trawled the web looking for CPM archives and found the Girvin_Herr collection of 840 folders in a zip file. I hoped for the best and found 9 disks therein containing Supercalc 1 & 2 versions. :
A little playing with the install terminal settings and I now have Supercalc 2 working with a "< >" cell cursor: happy happy joy joy!
If anyone is interested I have a ds_40.dsk, with MBASIC and OBASIC also on it, so I can justify my SuperCalc addiction.
RE: SuperCalc 2 - ChickenMan - 07-09-2025
Looks great, thanks for the image, I will put a system on it so it can boot. I'm cleaning up a Manual I found for it and will release both shortly.
RE: SuperCalc 2 - Graham72 - 05-10-2025
(07-09-2025, 02:07 AM)ChickenMan Wrote: Looks great, thanks for the image, I will put a system on it so it can boot. I'm cleaning up a Manual I found for it and will release both shortly.
Thanks ChickenMan: https://microbeetechnology.com.au/forum/thread-955.html