this is really confusing. I just re-captured the binary from the original option ROM, and it is identical as far as I can tell as the one at bitchin100. Furthermore, it works in my real hardware and VirtualT, with and without REX#.
So, I am stumped. ..Steve On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 9:10 PM Justin Poirier <gen.ele...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > >
