Thanks much for going through the bother of dumping these. On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 4:25 PM Steve Baker <stevebake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Ken! Greatly appreciated. I uploaded the four ROM images to the > member uploads folder, and when I convert these into .BX then I’ll post > those too. :-) > > > http://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?direction=&order=&directory=Steve%20Baker&; > > Cheers and again, thank you!! > Steve > > -- > Greetings from Steve Baker > “Gravity brings me down…” > > > > On Dec 19, 2020, at 4:09 PM, Ken Pettit <petti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'll get it approved now. > > On 12/19/20 1:08 PM, Steve Baker wrote: > > Hello — yes, cool! I’m sure my club100 account request will be approved > sometime soon; in the meanwhile feel free to upload wherever. Sorry I don’t > yet know how to convert these into .BX files (I’m sure it’s a simple file > conversion) or I would’ve sent those instead. Thanks! > > — > Greetings from Steve Baker > Gravity brings me down... > > > On Dec 19, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Gregory McGill <arcadeshop...@gmail.com> > <arcadeshop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I can upload to ftp.whtech.com as well > lmk > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 8:05 AM Steve Baker <stevebake...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The ROM2S1 process worked like a charm. I now have what appear to be >> valid HEX files of the four chips that I can extract (and I’ll receive my >> TL-866 in a few days to extract the NEC one that I can’t read on my T102). >> >> I submitted a member registration form for club100.org in hopes of >> creating a member upload folder where I can store these. What I have ready >> is: >> >> disk31.hex … Disk+ (aka Disk 4) ver 3.1 >> gold71.hex … appears to be a custom ROM with “Gold” written in thin >> sharpie and “7.10” in large regular sharpie >> supr18.hex … Super ROM from PCSG ver 1.0 (this image is widely available >> already) >> plan10.hex … MS Multiplan 1.0 (this ROM is also widely available, grabbed >> just for fun) >> >> Fingers crossed my account is approved, and thanks again for the tips on >> how to do this! >> Steve >> >> -- >> Greetings from Steve Baker >> “Gravity brings me down…” >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Dec 17, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Steve Baker <stevebake...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This is fantastic — thanks! >> >> That would be, >> >> >> http://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Steve%20Adolph/ROM2S >> >> >> I will download and setup the rom2s1.do file later today. This community >> continues to amaze me with how much has been done and made available for >> folks to use. Thanks!! >> >> For transfers I’ve been using mComm 2.5 as my go-to TPDD emulator, run >> inside Windows emulated with Parallels on my Mac, using a USB to RS232 >> cable adapter. I do have a working TPDD1 which I use on occasion for floppy >> backups, but for day to day activity, saving and sending files back and >> forth, etc. I use the above setup. (One of these days I’ll explore the >> Mac-native options, but this works well and I’m in the emulator every so >> often for work stuff anyway, so it’s convenient enough and it’s rock solid.) >> >> Again, thanks! >> Steve >> >> -- >> Greetings from Steve Baker >> “Gravity brings me down…” >> >> >> >> On Dec 17, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Brian White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 9:29 AM Steve Baker <stevebake...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello again, and thanks for your response! >>> >>> For any NEC rom (meaning, does NOT need a pinout adapter like all the >>> 100/102/200 roms do) you could get a bare TL-866 from ebay. >>> >>> >>> This sounds awesome… I ordered one and it should arrive by Monday, and I >>> look forward to learning how to use this tool and find out how to grab the >>> image! >>> >>> For any of the 100/102/200 roms it gets a little more complicated. You >>> either need to be able to remove the chip from the pinout adapter, or get a >>> DIP test clip (28 or more pins) (and some wires and a DIP-28 socket just to >>> hold the free ends of the 28 wires), or use software to have the M100/200 >>> read it and copy it out to the serial port. >>> >>> >>> This also sounds awesome — especially by using software to have the T102 >>> read it and copy it out to the serial port. What software in particular >>> should I use? >>> >> >> >> That would be, >> >> >> http://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Steve%20Adolph/ROM2S >> >> And the serial cable: >> http://tandy.wiki/Model_T_Serial_Cable >> >> And a serial terminal app on a modern pc. For Windows I'd say probably >> TeraTerm >> https://osdn.net/projects/ttssh2/releases/ >> On linux I use minicom. I'd probably use minicom on mac too though I >> don't know if there's something more convenient on mac. >> >> I apologize, this could use a bit more help and direction than "use this >> comm program" but that'll have to be later. >> >> I think there might be an app that writes directly to a file via TPDD >> too, instead of using a terminal program to capture plain text. I might be >> inventing that, I'll have to look around. That wouldn't be necessarily >> fewer or easier steps just different. But it would mean setting up a tpdd >> emulator and installing a tpdd client on the t102, which is just a handy >> thing you're going to want in general anyway. >> >> -- >> bkw >> >> >> >> >>> Again, thanks! >>> Steve >>> >>> -- >>> Greetings from Steve Baker >>> “Gravity brings me down…” >>> >>> >>> >>> On Dec 17, 2020, at 12:59 AM, Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/16/20 8:02 PM, Steve Baker wrote: >>> >>> Cool, happy to help with the exploration! >>> Just getting into the hardware side of things, and I don’t have a NEC to >>> try out the R2/Clu chip. Thoughts on how I could dump this? Or a gadget I >>> could order to help me do that? >>> >>> >>> For any NEC rom (meaning, does NOT need a pinout adapter like all the >>> 100/102/200 roms do) you could get a bare TL-866 from ebay. >>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/233816729184 >>> The software is free and easy. (or at least, I could tell you what to do >>> exactly.) >>> >>> For any of the 100/102/200 roms it gets a little more complicated. You >>> either need to be able to remove the chip from the pinout adapter, or get a >>> DIP test clip (28 or more pins) (and some wires and a DIP-28 socket just to >>> hold the free ends of the 28 wires), or use software to have the M100/200 >>> read it and copy it out to the serial port. >>> >>> Or I mail it to someone who would know what to do with it? (I have a >>> small set of operational T102s, two non-functional T200s, and an awesome T. >>> WP-2, but alas no NECs. >>> >>> I would do it. But I would also walk you through using the TL-866 if you >>> want to try getting into that. >>> >>> Any thoughts on the Gold v7.10 chip? Is that of any interest? I would be >>> happy to install that into a T102 and see what happens when I call 63012, >>> in the name of science! >>> >>> >>> -- >>> bkw >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
