I agree that CloudT is working just fine, and is vindicated by the fact
that Business Analyst blows up exactly the same way on real hardware. I
have had zero luck finding a manual for the software, so I can only
guess that the CALL I'm using is correct. I'm assuming it is since it
loads to the splash screen, but can't verify that for sure.
I got the ROM from the REX# repository, but can't know if it's good for
sure. Anyone with a REX have it working?
Does anyone have a manual or any pointers? This package interests me
for some unknown reason. Maybe just because it seems like so much of a
mystery!
--Justin
On Sun, 2023-03-05 at 17:56 -0800, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 4:47 PM Justin Poirier <gen.ele...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > That's the line number, not some new quirk of the Y2K bug. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > I saw PCSG's Business Analyst as an option ROM in Cloud T and
> > thought
> >
> > I'd try it. CALL 63012, and it gives the splash screen while it
> > loads,
> >
> > shows some preliminary numbers on the screen, looking promising,
> > and
> >
> > then give an "FC Error in 1938."
> >
> >
> >
> > There is no program listing upon doing a LIST, so this is a pretty
> >
> > typical machine code crash in my book.
> >
> >
> >
> > I thought I'd try it on real hardware, just to be sure, so I burned
> > a
> >
> > ROM and put it in my 102. It blows up the exact same way. I
> > manually
> >
> > did a full cold restart on it, and the result is the same. It does
> >
> > leave it's mark in the menu so I can load it without the CALL, but
> > it's
> >
> > dead software unless there's some trick to making it load. Any
> > ideas on
> >
> > what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> >
> >
> > --Justin
> >
> >
>
> It doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong. Some ROMs have a
> different install CALL but I doubt that's the issue.
>
> For my part, I've never really used this opt rom. I just dropped it
> into CloudT since it is available. Might have checked to see it
> launch... which it does, shows a banner, but if you hit enter you get
> the crash.
>
> I'd like to hear if anyone else uses it with whatever version of the
> Opt ROM they have... maybe I have a corrupted file.
>
> -- John.
