But you can't run any basic program on a Model 600, because it doesn't come with basic. That's why it's such a big deal to discover that it's in the built-in telcom. With that, it's then possible to download basic as an executable, and THEN you can run basic programs.
There was a basic option rom, which no one had. You could burn a new option rom easily, because the molex carriers are available and th option rom pinout is standard 27C256, except so far there is no copy of the basic option rom to be found anywhere. There is a basic executable that you could copy from a floppy to ram and run, and that is available on-line, but it's unclear if there is any way to create a floppy on a modern pc which the 600 could read. (It might be doable, or not, I'm still poking at it. Someone said they think they remember doing it years ago with the teledisk program, but that may be too old now. It may require both dos, and an old floppy disk controller, maybe and old drive too, not a curent usb floppy drive. It absolutely needs a double density disk, but you can still get those, though they are all old stock. That combination of things leaves you in a real pickle. But now if I can just get this built-in xmodem to work, I could transfer the basic.!55 file (a binary executable), and THEN everything is better at that point. Then I can save it to disc, and use it to run any of those archived basic programs. Assuming that file is actually good and runs and works. And can use xmodem to both upload and download the files from the original utility disk to back them up and let other people get them. On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Bill Nobel <b_no...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I have it on the 102. It's called xmodem.bas which creates a new telecom > with xmodem. It works great for transfers from other devices. Can't > remember where I got it from, but I'm sure it came from bitchin100 library. > > -Bill > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jan 20, 2017, at 7:56 PM, Brian White <bw.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > TELCOM DOES HAVE Xmodem! > > > > Testing it out now. This changes everything. > > > > I was actually in the process of trying to see if I could get away with > setting hardware flow control and 8 bit characters and see if I could just > send the raw binary over the session and collect it into session log, and > name the session log basic.!55 there's a 1 in 255 chance it would work > right? :) > > > > Anyway, poking at it now. > > If it works, then this means I can upload the contents of the utility > floppy, and anyone else can download it and get it onto a bare Model 600 > with nothing but a serial cable. And anyone can download that basic > interpreter. So now we all have basic and all the stuff in the archive is > actually installable. > > > > -- > > bkw >
