I want to thank Kurt Mc., John H, Stephen A. and many others for their development of both the hardware and software that truly extends our Model 100/102 laptops usefulness.
I understand the frustration that users can feel in getting some of this hardware and software to work on our wonderful little machines. A few months ago, I decided to build a Poor Man’s TPDD. I uploaded the build and setup my device on Atariage a while back. In the documentation, I described in detail how to setup a fresh install of Raspberry Pi OS with mComm. See link: Poor Man's TPDD - Raspberry Pi Zero - Tandy Computers - AtariAge Forums While it may not be everyone’s cup of tea to build the project, some of the pages in the “Poor Mans TPDD.pdf” may be useful for those folks trying to get started with mComm on a Linux box. Specifically, see page 15 for information on installation of mComm on Linux. In my case it is installed on a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W. Page 21 has a link to Kurt’s download page Pages 16 and 21 has some information on Teeny. Btw, I used a cool little program called TrashTalk. to easily transfer the teeny.do file to my Model 100 for my testing. (The web page link is in the pdf. While I don’t go into installation and setup detail in the document but it is actually pretty straight forward getting Teeny up and running on a Model 100/102. Please note that I consider myself a “user”. I used the information provided by all of you folks in the community to create a device that meets my hobby needs. Maybe, this information will provide another viewpoint to get their hardware/software up and running. David G Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Kurt McCullum Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 1:07 PM To: m100@lists.bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] mcomm on linux I'll look into this when I get a chance Peter. I have not forgotten but thanks for the reminder. Kurt On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, at 10:50 AM, Peter Vollan wrote: FYI my problem persists, despite installing python 3.5 On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 17:16, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 4:57 PM Jim Anderson <jim.ander...@kpu.ca> wrote: It's easy to forget that when you're just starting out with this machine No, I get it. It's complicated. We've lost multiple newbie's coming to the list. One guy, "Dunebuggy" departed the list informing us that he had ripped all the wires out of his Model 100 and thrown it away, not able to get file transfer going. That said, bootstrap is typically complicated no matter what! If you don't have a ROM or REX solution for running TS-DOS, I think TEENY is worth the time to figure out. And you can use it to load DOS100.CO, so, it seems like the best of both worlds. BTW, another way to inject TEENY is by playing an audio file from an MP3 player or phone. That works, if you have the right file. CLOAD, or CLOADM, doesn't get easier than that. Anyone have a known good TEENY audio file? Of course you will need a cassette cable, and we all have audio playback devices. Any computer or smart phone should do. -- John.
