Preserving WordStar with DOS, CP/M, and a Commodore 128 // (NCommander in Realtime)

In what is an experiment in content creation, your host NCommander has tried livestreaming and then making a video out of said live stream in an effort to see how viable it is to make videos on topics that I won’t normally make a long-form video about. In this series that I’m tentatively calling NCommander in Reatime, I breakout the “ disk drives, the SuperCard Pro, a DOS emulator, and then an unexpected detour into showing my Commodore 128 running CP/M and doing some testing on real hardware. What makes this preservation project so unique is that this is my first time dumping CP/M disks, and also trying some recovery techniques on a disk that is literally falling apart. CP/M, for those unfamiliar is an 8-bit operating system that cloned by Microsoft to DOS. Commodore experimented in making CP/M available for the C64 and C128, with the 128 version being somewhere between “bad“ and “mediocre“. For those who aren’t familiar with it, WordStar is a famous te