Kinda sounds like a re-imagining of the booster pak. Wasn't that thing capable of holding huge single files that a m100 alone could not?
________________________________ From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> on behalf of Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 5:38:32 PM To: Model 100 Discussion Subject: Re: [M100] Doing what the C= can do? No fundamental reason, other than the mechanical aspects of connecting without risking damage (especially to the M100), and the additional hardware to decode and safely interface to the 'heart' of the machine. On the other hand it's fairly trivial to share the serial port (unless of course your application requires true simultaneous access); what have you got in mind? And of course no matter how you physically connect, anything dangling off the back of the ModelT probably interferes with its portability and maybe even battery life, its main selling points. m ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex ...<mailto:abortretryf...@gmail.com> To: Model 100 Discussion<mailto:m100@lists.bitchin100.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [M100] Doing what the C= can do? Is there any reason not to use the system bus for expansions/addons like this? One thing I've noticed in using my M102 is that its lone serial port, while simple and effective, seems very overworked. On Nov 1, 2016 11:21, "Mike Stein" <mhs.st...@gmail.com<mailto:mhs.st...@gmail.com>> wrote: Regarding the WiFi modem, there's no need to build anything; one of the advantages of the M100 over the C64 is that the M100 has a standard RS-232 port capable of speeds >38Kbps and RS232 WiFi modems are available off the shelf; as mentioned, you can also use an Android phone or a Pi as a 'modem'; One way or another the Model Ts have always had Internet connectivity, but the real issue has always been what to do with it; browsing the web or even email gets stale pretty quickly with the small screens. Of course you can run it in 80x24 mode on an external display but now you've got that extra hardware and you're still pretty limited in what you can actually do. m ----- Original Message ----- From: _ Comet<mailto:co...@yahoo.com> To: Model 100 Discussion<mailto:m100@lists.bitchin100.com> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [M100] Doing what the C= can do? Yes, you can build a similar device for the m100. For relocatable code, you can use a fixed-in-memory small routine to trampoline relatively to the caller's program counter. For a faster display, disable screen scrolling and there is a program for this in the library. Note that the screen refresh is not all bad if you are starting from a blank screen, as it will go faster than you can read. :-D -------- Comet ________________________________ From: Jim Williams <hira...@hotmail.com<mailto:hira...@hotmail.com>> To: "m100@lists.bitchin100.com<mailto:m100@lists.bitchin100.com>" <m100@lists.bitchin100.com<mailto:m100@lists.bitchin100.com>> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016 12:24 PM Subject: [M100] Doing what the C= can do? I came across this video on Youtube of a wifi modem for the Commodore 64, that was able to load software directly from the internet. C64 WiFi Modem<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeuQVKRsObk> Watching that and related videos, I came across this site... Retro Innovations<http://www.go4retro.com/> The Store for that site has all kinds of hardware projects. Is it that much more expensive to develop such projects for the M100 as the latter site has for the C64? Is it that the user base is so much smaller? Or is there something inherently inferior in the M100's design that doesn't allow for it? I've been busy with other things, but iirc, the M100 does have an expansion port, yes? Which can directly access the M100's memory? I'm rehashing topics I've discussed before, but among them is some kind of MMU for the M100 so it could have relocatable code (again, iirc, the 8085 doesn't even have relative addressing?) . The things that frustrate my ambitions with the M100 most are the memory restrictions and the slow refresh on the display. I want to be able to work with documents larger than 32k; I could live with the slow refresh if I could do that. Anyway, I was just hoping, with those links, to inspire some hardware types into thinking "why not?"
