Welcome to the group Jim. Sounds like you've been doing quite a bit of research. I was surprised when you mentioned putting your TPDD folder onto dropbox and sharing it among two machines. Neat idea. In theory this would be possible with the Android version but I would have to write code for a directory selection. This is a simple command in .Net on a PC, but Android apps are not meant to have much access to the file system. The Android versions was intended to be a portable TPDD server much like the NADSBox that could be used when not near a computer.
As far as UR-II 1.21 not working with Sardine. It will work, but it has to be installed differently. The Sardine manual goes into detail on this. Basically you load the RAM version separately and turn it on or off using a BASIC loader that gets installed along with it. Not as graceful as how the later versions load it. It looks like the 100 version has FINALLY been found so when it arrives I'll add it to mComm. Still searching for the NEC version. Kurt -----Original Message----- From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Jim Anderson Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 8:25 PM To: m100@lists.bitchin100.com Subject: [M100] Fresh meat! (trying not to ripple the waters) Hi folks. Just joined this mailing list today. I've been reading messages from the archives for a little while this evening, and I'm glad I did, because I was originally going to blindly wade in here with 'Anybody know where I can buy a NADSBox and one or more REX modules? Please???' - I see I'm nowhere near the first in line. :( (edit: This message got a lot longer than I'd originally planned - what comes next is a saga that would not have been nearly as interesting (and might even have been over already) if it weren't for all the hard work that folks here have done and continue to do to keep the M100 alive and relevant. Thank You to all of you from my family.) I'm fairly new to the M100 world. Admired and drooled over the M100/T102/T200 in the Radio Shack catalogue back in the day, but couldn't possibly afford one back then. Happened across one for sale early this year and succumbed to the nostalgia factor. As soon as I showed it to my kids, they were enthralled. (13 year old boy, 8.5 year old girl.) Bashed out a quick program to greet them by name. Next thing I know I'm tracking down PDFs of the manuals because my son wants to know how to generate sound and I don't remember... Then I'm trawling ebay looking for more machines and putting VirtualT on a laptop because they're fighting for time on mine... Now I've got four (one for parts) and looking for another parts machine because mine has started developing dead columns of pixels in the bottom half of the display and the parts machine already has a bad display... have accumulated printed copies of a few of the manuals, a TPDD2 which I had to re-belt (which thankfully came with a utility disk, although I see that's no longer such a concern as of very recently, thanks Kurt!), miscellaneous cables (but no parallel cable yet), and one UR-II (v1.21 - sadly, no Sardine support, although I've found that having IDEA! on the go is fantastic - I love that program). The kids are still mad at it, each after their own nature. They both have been working on text adventure games, but my son seems more focused on adding music at every step, while my daughter is very focused on the story. I think it's a fantastic thing to teach kids even in this age. They've been through a few rounds of the heartache unexpected cold resets can bring, and learned the importance of backups and the fun of combing through the recovered contents of RAM looking for bits of their documents. They're thinking through the logic of their programs and getting a closer 'feel' for how it all works. My daughter is using hers to write stories and a journal, too. It's been a ton of fun so far. Since I discovered the various resources available for interfacing with modern computers, things got a lot easier (even before I got the disk drive operational). Experiencing what REX and a NADSBox would be like through using VirtualT has had me longing to have these facilities available on our physical hardware... still, we've been doing quite well. I'm no stranger to rs-232 interfaces so starting off transferring text files was a piece of cake... when I discovered TBACK it was almost world-changing. Being able to make regular backups easily... being able to swap back and forth between different memory images for different purposes in a very REX-like manner (except not portable)... and the most fun, being able to drop TBACK images files into VirtualT in place of RAM.BIN made copying individual files so much easier. Then discovered mComm. Moved my TPDD folder into Dropbox so I can have mComm on machines at work and at home instead of just on the same box as VirtualT. Hoping to be able to access that Dropbox TPDD folder using the Android version of mComm. I'd love to add a Bluetooth serial interface to one (or more) of my machines, and I've got a couple of ideas of my own for that, although I'd love to hear what anybody else has already done. (Of course it won't be useful for mComm TPDD access unless I have a REX module since I won't have any way of using the TS-DOS with modified delays... would still be fun for telnetting into my home server wirelessly.) Full of ideas, but with precious little spare time to spend implementing them. :( Still, it's been inspiring and fascinating to be able to connect with my kids over something that gives them a different perspective on computing than video games, Youtube, and Minecraft. jim
