Are the files from the utility disk(s) really not archived anywhere? AFAIK
they're all ordinary files, i.e. no special boot sectors etc. so why would it
be a problem to copy them to a PC and make them available, and then recreate
the utility disk from them? I thought Steve had done that but I can only find
the FLOPPY.CO files.
I don't have a TPDD so maybe I'm missing something but I didn't think this was
a big problem...
mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian White
To: Model 100 Discussion
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [M100] New command line tool for TPDD and TPDD2
Can you clone that tppd-2 disk please? I have a tppd-2 with no disk. The
thing was a doorstop until I found teeny.
Even the mp3 of ts-dos on the club100 member uploads is of limited use,
because it just runs once and then consumes ram but isn't usable after that.
The directions with it don't say how to save it or install it, just run it
directly from the cassette input.
On May 22, 2016 3:12 PM, "Gary Hammond" <ghamm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Fortunately I do have a working boot/util disk for the TPDD2 and was
thinking along the same lines.
Was there a boot/util disk for the TPDD? I never got a disk with the TPDD’s
I have.
From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> on behalf of Brian White
<bw.al...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com>
Date: Monday, 23 May 2016 at 5:10 AM
To: Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com>
Subject: Re: [M100] New command line tool for TPDD and TPDD2
Outstanding! This IS great news!
With this maybe at some point we can replicate the util disk that shipped
with the tpdd but is missing or degraded now, using nothing but a pc and the
internet (and a real tpdd).
--
bkw
On May 21, 2016 10:44 PM, "Gary Hammond" <ghamm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
So here’s something different…a tool for talking to a real TPDD from a
PC. This is the opposite of most of the discussion here on the list.
I have just finished off the first version of a TPDD command line tool I
have written.
The problem:
The problem I wanted to solve was find an easy way to transfer to a TPDD
disk, files to and from my PC. It was getting laborious transferring files one
at a time via telcom or basic over the serial port from the PC, then switching
over to the TPDD and writing the files back. Even using TSDOS and loading up
the max amount of programs in the M100’s RAM then transferring them as a group
via TSDOS is still a time consuming process.
The solution:
I can now connect my TPDD or TPDD2 to my PC, which can be Windows, Linux
or Mac. I then use the command line tool (TpddTool.py) to perform disk based
commands using familiar command line syntax. The commands include:
- cp myfile.do 0:myfile.do
- cp 1:myprog.ba myprog.ba
- rm 0:file1.co
- cat 1:myfile.do
- mv 0:wrong.do 0:right.do
- format
- status
- dir 1:
and my favourite:
- cpd filedir 0: (this is used to copy a folder of files to the
TPDD or copy the bank of a TPDD to a folder all in one go!
The commands also take DOS equivalents i.e., copy, ren, del, type and
copydir.
I have tested the software using a TPDD and a TPDD2 with real coms ports
and USB com port on Wndows 10, CentOS 6 and 7 and Mac OSX (El Capitan). A
fortuitous side effect of writing a test suite for the API is that I now have a
great tool for testing a physical TPDD!
The tool is written in Python and is available with documentation from
http://trs80stuff.net/tpdd/. The reason for Python was its cross platform
compatibility, source code that can be easily read and re-used, and that it
fitted in with some up-skilling I wanted to do for work with respect to auto
documenting code and the nose test framework.
Future ideas I have in mind are:
- Set up and test in on the Raspberry Pi.
- A GUI for drag and drop functionality.
- Implementation of the sector based commands so that a true
disk copy can be performed. It would be a good way to make disk images.
- Create yet another drive simulator to work in the opposite
direction. It would be good on a Raspberry Pi.
Please post any feedback to myself directly or via the list.
Enjoy!
