Hi David, I will recommend my own game, Text Sweeper, which is a clone of Minesweeper.
http://www.georgerimakis.com/tsweep.html Best, George On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:03 AM, David Laffineuse <davidlaffine...@me.com> wrote: > Jim, > > Thank you! Your guidance helped me over the last few hurdles. I have now > been able to successfully load and run .BA files from the PC via mComm! > My next question is naturally: what are some of the indispensable programs > (games, utilities, etc.) that everyone should have on their M100? > > Thanks again!! > > David > > > On May 08, 2018, at 07:00 PM, Jim Anderson <jim.ander...@kpu.ca> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > > So here is where I am so far: > > > You've made great progress! > > - Able to download files from mComm/data into RAM... BUT those files, > > once in RAM seem to be corrupter. For instance when downloading some > > .BA files, I only get a few lines of code or no code at all, even though > > > There's a bit of a trick here - well, not a 'trick' so much as a bit of > information you need to know. > > Often when you find a .BA file online, it's a plain-text listing of a > BASIC program which you can view in Notepad etc. The problem is that on the > M100, a .BA file is a tokenized binary (to save space and improve execution > time). If you transfer a text BASIC listing as a .BA file the M100 is going > to try to interpret it as a tokenized binary file and, well, you saw what > happens. :( > > The trick is to have a look at the .BA file on the PC, and if it's a plain > text program listing, rename it to a .DO extension before you transfer it > into the M100. Then, when it's on the M100, go into BASIC and type: > > LOAD "PROG.DO" > > This will load the program and tokenize it for you. (If it's a big program > it might take a while.) When it's done, type: > > SAVE "PROG.BA" > > This will save the tokenized .BA file back into the M100's memory. You can > now delete the .DO file from the M100, and you can transfer the .BA file > back to the PC and keep it to save this step in the future. > > Some people adopt different naming conventions for these when storing them > on a PC - often a program will have a document with it, so there will be a > PROG.BA which is the plain text listing, and a PROG.DO which is the > instruction manual. What I personally do is rename PROG.BA to PROG.BD > (Basic-DO is I guess what I was thinking there) and then copy back PROG.BA > from the M100 to save the tokenized version. > > > > > > > > jim > >