John, all I meant by conflict is if TSDOS in RAM (16k ish?) + my code(8k ish?) cause the M100 to run out of memory. TSDOS is a lot of program to merely load one .CO. But I really don't know specifically if everything can reside in RAM at the same time with a low CLEAR at 55000.
when himem is not set correctly, ... a .CO program beeps, of course, on failed start up. I don't recall but I don't think that any of my routines beep. they might. I really don't remember ;) On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 4:24 PM John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 12:55 PM Fugu ME100 <b4me...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> The RAM TPDD is most likely conflicting with the the REX program. The >> best method is to use TEENY to download the RF149.CO file. I have never >> used the RAM TPPD to program a REX >> > > Well. > > TEENY is fine, and Steve says that's what he tested with, so I agree > that's the best way to go. > > But let me do my small part to prevent cargo cult misunderstandings > though... > > Saying TSDOS "conflicts" with rf149.co doesn't make any sense to me. > > RAM based DOSes that aren't running don't conflict with other CO programs. > If they did, there wouldn't be much point to them, because part of the > point of a DOS is to be able to inload CO files, and then run them. > > When a DOS inloads a CO program, it inloads it into the file system > portion of RAM. If you don't have enough RAM to add the file to the RAM > file system, the DOS will give you an error. > > But that didn't happen... it loaded the CO into the file system. Note that > the inload just places it in the file system. It doesn't run it. It doesn't > copy the program to the place it needs to run. If it did, it might > overwrite itself! > > But it doesn't, because that's not how it works. > > Then you exit the DOS, you enter a CLEAR statement if the file needs to > run lower than whatever HIMEM is currently set to, likely because of a > previous clear for other programs you run (like the DOS). > > The program then launches and runs. > > The one area you might say this is not true is that TS-DOS can be "hooked" > into BASIC to add some extensions. Those extensions must be copied and run > from somewhere, so it's possible they could conflict. > > The most likely thing IMO is his REX is not making contact or it is faulty > in some other way. > > As you say the burn should complete in 5 minutes. > > Steve does your program ever beep for any reason? > > :-) > > -- John. > > -= Model T's Forever =- >
