Yup. That's pretty much all I want to do. It's a little more than just read from COM write to .BA file since I have a protocol around it for handshaking, etc., but in essence, it's just reading from COM and writing to a .BA file.
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > So all you want to do is read a .BA file from the com port and save it in the > M100 RAM? > > m > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Lauzon" <rlau...@gmail.com> > To: "Model 100 Discussion" <m100@lists.bitchin100.com> > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 12:43 PM > Subject: Re: [M100] Writing to a .ba file > > >> Ya, that's what I'm (trying) to do. It's been 30 years since I've had >> to deal with assembler, so I'm not willing to do that. >> >> But, otherwise, it works. The new project is on: >> https://github.com/rlauzon/rdos >> >> It implements a sort-of-TPDD protocol and the client programs are >> written in BASIC. >> But it does work and works quite well so far. >> >> I removed the features of the TPDD protocol that I didn't need (like >> format drive and drive status) and changed others ("previous file" is >> "change directory" in my project). >> I allow you to use all 24 characters of the file name field (for >> naming the file on the disk - you still have to deal with the file >> name limitation on the M100). >> It will "boot" the loader program by doing a LOAD "COM:98N1D and >> pressing a button. >> Once the loader program is there, you can load the save, list and >> utility programs. >> I implemented directory handling, so you can use a nice, big SD card >> and subdirectories. >> >> I've booted up from a hard reset on my T102, loaded up all the >> programs, and played for a bit. I still need to really kick it >> around, so it's in alpha test right now. >> >> About $85 in hardware (I had the 32 GB SD card, drive activity LED, >> boot button and 9-25 serial cable laying around). >> I only needed to solder the headers to the SD Card shield. Everything >> else was just plug/play. >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:17 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 8:37 AM Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> RAM is always going to be an issue; even if you could write a .BA file >>>> then the new program and the program writing it would have to be in memory >>>> simultaneously (although of course a .DO file would be larger). >>>> >>>> It would help if we knew how you plan to create the .BA file that you want >>>> to write; creating a non-trivial .BA file can be pretty tricky. >>>> >>>> m >>> >>> >>> >>> I think he's receiving it from an Arduino tpdd server. >>> >>> Ron, you'll at least need to write some ML subroutines to create a tokenized >>> basic file from received tokenized basic data. >>> >>> -- John. >> >> >> >> -- >> Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org >> Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ >> Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ >> >> DNRC: Lord of All Things That Are Fattening >> >> "To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in >> audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some >> sort of job." - Ann Coulter >> >> Microsoft Free since July 06, 2001 >> Running Ubuntu 16.04 -- Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ DNRC: Lord of All Things That Are Fattening "To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job." - Ann Coulter Microsoft Free since July 06, 2001 Running Ubuntu 16.04
