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IBM PCjr Resources

Websites

Software

Operating Systems

  • PC DOS 2.1: The version of DOS that came with the PCjr originally.
  • PC DOS 3.3: Also supported on PCjr. No real advantage as far as I can tell, and takes more memory.

Native Development

  • IBM Macro Assembler 2.0: Assembler that works on PCjr with 128KB.
  • IBM PC BASIC Compiler 2.0. Runs on PCjr; executables are faster than interpreted BASIC.
  • Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0: Works on PCjr with 128KB and uses only ~30KB on disk.
  • Disk BASIC: Compaq MS-DOS 2.12 OEM disk contains BASICA.EXE which will run on the PCjr without Cartridge BASIC installed. This provides disk support for BASIC but does not support any PCjr specific features.

Cross-Development

  • NASM: Excellent x86 assembler for many platforms. Produces 16-bit binaries that will run on PCjr.
  • Turbo C++: Runs in DOSBox or on a more powerful DOS PC, produces binaries that will run on PCjr.

Tools for Transferring Software

  • RAWRITE.EXE: Useful for writing disk images to physical media.
  • DOSBox-X. Great for extracting files from disk images. Use imgmount a disk.img to mount disk images, mount c c:\dos to mount a target directory, and then copy the desired files from the disk.

Modern Hardware

  • PCjr Keyboard Emulator for Arduino: Allows you to paste things from a modern PC to the PCjr via a serial terminal over the infrared keyboard receiver.
  • jr-IDE: PCjr IDE interface and memory expansion.
  • PCjrCart: PCBs for creating your own PCjr cartridges.
  • PcjrNet: Unfinished project to create an ethernet adapter that plugs into the modem slot.

Manuals

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