Very cool and thanks for the feedback! I thought I got all the syntax errors..can you share what you fixed and where there where additional troubles?
Great feedback on use case for VT100 driver and REX. I need to think through what is happening. At first glance I can see how you can restart Rex but I dont see how the VT100 driver is able to work afterwards. I think VT100 would be unusable afterwards and would need to be reinstalled. Steve On Saturday, June 20, 2020, Jim Anderson <jim.ander...@kpu.ca> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > > > Yes. Remove the rex hooks to use VT100 driver. > > However to remove the VT100 driver is a cold boot. > > I've found that if I switch back to SCREEN 0 I can use REXMGR again to > switch memory images or load ROM images. To use the external display again > I have to unload the REX hooks, CLEAR 0,60000, execute VT100.CO, reset > the time :), and then SCREEN 1. (Yet another reason I keep a copy of my > SETIME.BA in every memory image...) > > The more painful thing I've found is if I allow the M100 to go into idle > power-off while displaying on the external display. Cycling the power > switch brings back an apparently-dead M100 which won't display on either > the LCD or serial output. In that case, I happened to discover that > pressing Shift-Break brings back the menu, but you need to follow this with > rear reset button (which will just appear to re-load the menu) to get > things back in order. If you just Shift-Break you'll have a menu but it'll > lock up again if you go into BASIC or TEXT. Hitting the rear reset will > put it back on SCREEN 0 and you'll just have to go into BASIC and issue > SCREEN 1 again if you want to be back on serial output. > > (This happened to me a couple of times in the midst of TEXT sessions, > before I stumbled across the above recovery procedure, and then vowed to > connect an external power source and use POWER CONT if I'm using the > external display feature.) > > > My plan is to sort out how to make REX and VT100 driver coexist, or > > better still integrate. > > That would be truly awesome! > > I've been playing around with this today - either I forgot you'd made it > or I missed something. > > I downloaded TREK.BA as you suggested on the wiki page - fixed up some > syntax errors, and played for a couple of hours tonight with my daughter > while we figured out the navigation and gameplay. She was at the M100 > typing the commands while I made suggestions and perused the source code if > we got stumped. At the end she said it was a bit like I was the captain > and she was at a bridge console (because I'd put the M100 on top of a big > cardboard box in front of the monitor and she was operating it standing up, > while I was sitting beside her in my chair). Fun times! > > > > > > > > jim > >
