additionally, earlier tonight I DID get the same error message, using the real ROM on real T102 hardware.
AHAH! Business Analyst ROM works on M100 only! Isn't that odd, wonder why. But, this appears to be confirmed in VirtualT as well as on real hardware. Steve On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 12:14 AM Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> >>
