I never got that working if I recall. It was quite a few years ago when I was first messing with dlplus and teeny on OS X, but I do recall it being a bit of a mess and the docs seemed to be either out of date or incorrect. Thanks for doing this.
> On Dec 27, 2019, at 5:03 AM, Brian K. White <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anyone successfully used the loader.ba <http://loader.ba/> function of > dlplus, where you send the preamble XX instead of ZZ and then immediately > read from the serial port? > (see the very end of dl.do from dlplus.zip below) > > I have tried a lot of things (including strictly exactly following the > directions verbatim with untouched versions of the files) and it would be a > pretty long email to run down everything I tried, and why, and what I deduced > from each test, ... So I just ask that simple yes/no for now. > If no one can say it works for them, then I'll just assume it's been broken > all along, regardless what the old original dl.do claims. > > teeny-linux works perfect for me every time, but the source for that (and > teeny-freebsd and teeny-macosx) is not available, and I want some sort of > reproduceable, source-available dos bootstrapper. > > So, I've taken dlplus.zip and rearranged things a little and put it up on > github and and added a "-b" commandline option which IS working to > successfully to bootstrap TEENY at least for me. > "dl -b" essentially takes the place of teeny-linux, although simpler. > > https://github.com/bkw777/dlplus <https://github.com/bkw777/dlplus> > > The XX option requires longer more annoying BASIC code to manually enter than > what's needed for -b, so mostly I don't miss it now. > But I think one possible use for XX might be getty mode. > If you have dl running from getty on a headless little box like a Pi, then I > assume XX is a way you can bootstrap right from the same serial connection > without being able to log in and run commands at an interactive shell. So, it > still would be nice if it worked. > > But for now, I'm pleased with how the -b option is working. > > references: > http://bitchin100.com/files/linux/dlplus.zip > <http://bitchin100.com/files/linux/dlplus.zip> > http://m100.bbsdev.net/ <http://m100.bbsdev.net/dl-1.3.tgz> > > -- > bkw >
