Re: [M100] REX & DVI

[James Zeun]

That's really disappointing, I wish I had know before I bought it. The
whole point of getting the DVI was so that I could continue working on
documents at home on a bigger screen. I'd have just as been well to have
taken the SD card out of my NADSbox and stuck it in a winblows PC.

Anyways I won't let that dampen my spirits! I'll figure something out.
Maybe a gotek drive in the DVI? Anyone tried that?

I do desperately need a new DVI cable, can anyone help?





On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:44 am Stephen Adolph,  wrote:

> I agree.  I dont think the issue is with rex.
>
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Gregory McGill 
> wrote:
>
>> I think the answer is no which is why i put my dvi on the shelf and gave
>> up for a bit
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 4:41 PM Stephen Adolph 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know if tsdos is at all compatible with dvi?
>>>
>>> Dvi installs software of it's own.
>>>
>>> Does tsdos support access to the dvi?
>>>
>>> Can tsdos ram version be coresident with dvi software?
>>>
>>> If the answer is no then you have to do some serious gymnastics to
>>> transfer from pc to m100 using tsdos, and then from m100 to dvi using dvi
>>> dos.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, James Zeun 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Would it be possible to copy TR-DOS from the M100 to a floppy?
 Load it up through the DVI?
 I've never uninstalled a program, so not sure where F7 comes in to it.
 Could I not simply KILL the rex manager?

 I wanted the DVi for typing, but I need the REX for TR-DOS. So I can
 save my documents to SD CARD or TPDD etc.

 On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:15 am Stephen Adolph, 
 wrote:

> Unload means deinstall using F7.  Not remove REX.  REX can stay
> installed physically...just deinstall rexmgr.ba.
>
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Kurt McCullum 
> wrote:
>
>> You can select TS-DOS with REX and then unload the REX manager. That
>> way it looks to the M100 like a regular ROM is loaded and the DVI should
>> work just fine from there.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Gregory McGill wrote:
>>
>> well transferring files from a pc with mcomm/laddealpha to dvi is
>> facilitated by having rexmgr load tsdos..
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:46 PM Stephen Adolph 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yep.
>> What I would do is make use of the deinstall function on rexmgr when
>> you want to use dvi.
>>
>> Of course I dont know of many option roms that work with dvi anyways.
>>
>> What did you want to do that requires both rex and dvi?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Gregory McGill <
>> arcadeshop...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Pretty sure I posted this a while back :)  yes they both want the
>> same memory which is a bummer for transferring data between!
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:17 PM Josh Malone 
>> wrote:
>>
>> That has been my experience as well. It appears that something done
>> by REXMGR interferes with the loading of DVI DOS. The REX can still be 
>> used
>> as an option ROM, but REXMGR cannot coexist.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 4:33 PM James Zeun 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Does the REX work with the DVI?
>>
>> Only I'm having serious issues getting my recently acquired DVI to
>> work with my M100. It only seems to function with the REX manger is wiped
>> from memory.
>>
>>
>>
>>

Re: [M100] Covid 19

[Jonathan Yuen]

Hi All

I know this is really off subject but I flew to Linate on monday, worked for 
two days in Parma, then flew out of Linate on Wednesday evening.  At Linate, 
the only thing I noticed was that they checked everyone's temperature coming 
in.  I would have thought it better to check those leaving (which did not 
happen on Wednesday). In Parma, things seemed a bit calmer (on the streets) but 
there weren't really a lot of people wearing masks.  The restaurants I ate at 
seemed (more or less) normal but we did talk about the virus at where I was 
doing some things. There were a couple of cases in Parma, related to the 
Codogno incident.

I think the big change was when I flew back to Sweden via Frankfurt from 
Linate.  The Lufthansa plane to Frankfurt, an A320, had (perhaps) 15 passengers 
on board. Linate seemed a bit less crowded but there were still people flying.  
And no temperature checks on people leaving.

To make sure there is an M100 item here I am waiting for the CPM upgrade but I 
was a bit disappointed to learn that Turbo Pascal for CPM was for a Z80.  I 
still run a CPM simulator under Linux. Not sure I could patch wordstar for an 8 
x 40 display but the external monitor option is an alternative and I think it 
used VT100 codes.

Jonathan

jonathan.y...@mykopat.slu.se

Från: M100 [m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] för Matteo Nannini 
[m.nannin...@gmail.com]
Skickat: den 27 februari 2020 06:56
Till: M100
Ämne: Re: [M100] Covid 19

I'm Italian too, here the situation is kinda like a war, people goes crazy, 
buying food stuff and hand sanitizer gel like never before. Since we Italians 
Are pretty divide in two parts: "we're gonna die" or "we're gonna sneeze" I 
think we should not be taken as example. For instance: in almost all the 
Italian territory, now, it's impossible to find mask, hand sanitizer gel, 
food... wait, only ONE specific brand of hand sanitizer gel, only ONE type of 
mask and
if we speak about food, people took everything from the malls, but everything 
tasty... some type of pasta (and you probably know how much we love pasta) are 
Still filling the shelf...

I'm not saying that there's no problem, I'm saying  that things would go easily 
if we don't panic!

Inviato dal mio BlackBerry, il dispositivo mobile più sicuro
Da: twospru...@gmail.com
Inviato: 27 febbraio 2020 01:14
A: m...@bitchin100.com
Rispondi a: m...@bitchin100.com
Oggetto: [M100] Covid 19


Side discussion.. reply or ignore!

Curious what people are doing wrt preparedness for this?

I have a friend in Milan and things went downhill pretty fast there.

Me personally-  I am building up some stores of things we need anyways  plus 
some specific medications we might need if sick with a flu.  Cant purchase 
masks.. sold out!



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Re: [M100] REX & DVI

[Stephen Adolph]

What I think makes sense as a project is to direct efforts towards using
the Geoff VT-100 terminal emulator with M100:

http://geoffg.net/terminal.html

This would be a great complement to M100.

I think a great project would be to do some software work to rip into the
DVI code, and pull out the video only routines, and rather than drive the
DVI over the system bus, drive this "external VGA adapter" via serial.

Several of us have started to disassemble DVI code.




On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:30 AM James Zeun  wrote:

> That's really disappointing, I wish I had know before I bought it. The
> whole point of getting the DVI was so that I could continue working on
> documents at home on a bigger screen. I'd have just as been well to have
> taken the SD card out of my NADSbox and stuck it in a winblows PC.
>
> Anyways I won't let that dampen my spirits! I'll figure something out.
> Maybe a gotek drive in the DVI? Anyone tried that?
>
> I do desperately need a new DVI cable, can anyone help?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:44 am Stephen Adolph, 
> wrote:
>
>> I agree.  I dont think the issue is with rex.
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Gregory McGill 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the answer is no which is why i put my dvi on the shelf and gave
>>> up for a bit
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 4:41 PM Stephen Adolph 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Does anyone know if tsdos is at all compatible with dvi?

 Dvi installs software of it's own.

 Does tsdos support access to the dvi?

 Can tsdos ram version be coresident with dvi software?

 If the answer is no then you have to do some serious gymnastics to
 transfer from pc to m100 using tsdos, and then from m100 to dvi using dvi
 dos.



 On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, James Zeun 
 wrote:

> Would it be possible to copy TR-DOS from the M100 to a floppy?
> Load it up through the DVI?
> I've never uninstalled a program, so not sure where F7 comes in to it.
> Could I not simply KILL the rex manager?
>
> I wanted the DVi for typing, but I need the REX for TR-DOS. So I can
> save my documents to SD CARD or TPDD etc.
>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:15 am Stephen Adolph, 
> wrote:
>
>> Unload means deinstall using F7.  Not remove REX.  REX can stay
>> installed physically...just deinstall rexmgr.ba.
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Kurt McCullum 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You can select TS-DOS with REX and then unload the REX manager. That
>>> way it looks to the M100 like a regular ROM is loaded and the DVI should
>>> work just fine from there.
>>>
>>> Kurt
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Gregory McGill wrote:
>>>
>>> well transferring files from a pc with mcomm/laddealpha to dvi is
>>> facilitated by having rexmgr load tsdos..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:46 PM Stephen Adolph 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep.
>>> What I would do is make use of the deinstall function on rexmgr when
>>> you want to use dvi.
>>>
>>> Of course I dont know of many option roms that work with dvi anyways.
>>>
>>> What did you want to do that requires both rex and dvi?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Gregory McGill <
>>> arcadeshop...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Pretty sure I posted this a while back :)  yes they both want the
>>> same memory which is a bummer for transferring data between!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:17 PM Josh Malone 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> That has been my experience as well. It appears that something done
>>> by REXMGR interferes with the loading of DVI DOS. The REX can still be 
>>> used
>>> as an option ROM, but REXMGR cannot coexist.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 4:33 PM James Zeun 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does the REX work with the DVI?
>>>
>>> Only I'm having serious issues getting my recently acquired DVI to
>>> work with my M100. It only seems to function with the REX manger is 
>>> wiped
>>> from memory.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

[M100] Multiplan Video

[Matteo Nannini]

  Hi everyone!Does anyone of you guys knows if there's any video/review on the net regarding Multiplan on the M100. Maybe someone who has it can upload some video showing some real use...Thanks! Inviato dal mio BlackBerry, il dispositivo mobile più sicuro 

Re: [M100] REX & DVI

[RETRO Innovations]

On 2/27/2020 3:30 AM, James Zeun wrote:



I do desperately need a new DVI cable, can anyone help?


I was going to suggest ArcadeShopper's site, but it looks like he's out 
of stock at present.  Maybe nudge him to make some more:


https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/Disk-Video-Interface-cable-kit-for-Models-100-102-200/p/141211030/category=28313042

Re: [M100] REX & DVI

[Gregory McGill]

I may have more..will check inventory today check back in a few


On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 6:58 AM RETRO Innovations 
wrote:

> On 2/27/2020 3:30 AM, James Zeun wrote:
> >
> >
> > I do desperately need a new DVI cable, can anyone help?
>
> I was going to suggest ArcadeShopper's site, but it looks like he's out
> of stock at present.  Maybe nudge him to make some more:
>
>
> https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/Disk-Video-Interface-cable-kit-for-Models-100-102-200/p/141211030/category=28313042
>
>
>

Re: [M100] REX & DVI

[james . zeun]

Thanks buddy! Really appreciate it

Sent from my iPad

> On 27 Feb 2020, at 3:07 pm, Gregory McGill  wrote:
> 
> 
> I may have more..will check inventory today check back in a few
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 6:58 AM RETRO Innovations  
>> wrote:
>> On 2/27/2020 3:30 AM, James Zeun wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I do desperately need a new DVI cable, can anyone help?
>> 
>> I was going to suggest ArcadeShopper's site, but it looks like he's out 
>> of stock at present.  Maybe nudge him to make some more:
>> 
>> https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/Disk-Video-Interface-cable-kit-for-Models-100-102-200/p/141211030/category=28313042
>> 
>> 

Re: [M100] REX & DVI

[Mike Stein]

Is the barcode patch going to be the 'official' interface?

I haven't programmed mine yet; how useful is Geoff's terminal in 'normal' 8x40 
M100 mode? 

I.e. does it handle all the various cursor etc. control codes properly?

It's definitely a neat device but you could of course also use an old laptop or 
whatever running a terminal program that does a correct emulation, although 
that would presumably require a level shifter.

@ Steve: since most level shifters also invert the signal and I assume you're 
bit-banging the interface, is there any possibility of an option to invert the 
signals in software?

  - Original Message - 
  From: Stephen Adolph 
  To: m...@bitchin100.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 7:04 AM
  Subject: Re: [M100] REX & DVI


  What I think makes sense as a project is to direct efforts towards using the 
Geoff VT-100 terminal emulator with M100:


  http://geoffg.net/terminal.html


  This would be a great complement to M100.



  I think a great project would be to do some software work to rip into the DVI 
code, and pull out the video only routines, and rather than drive the DVI over 
the system bus, drive this "external VGA adapter" via serial.


  Several of us have started to disassemble DVI code.









  On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:30 AM James Zeun  wrote:

That's really disappointing, I wish I had know before I bought it. The 
whole point of getting the DVI was so that I could continue working on 
documents at home on a bigger screen. I'd have just as been well to have taken 
the SD card out of my NADSbox and stuck it in a winblows PC. 


Anyways I won't let that dampen my spirits! I'll figure something out. 
Maybe a gotek drive in the DVI? Anyone tried that?


I do desperately need a new DVI cable, can anyone help?










On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:44 am Stephen Adolph,  wrote:

  I agree.  I dont think the issue is with rex.

  On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Gregory McGill  
wrote:

I think the answer is no which is why i put my dvi on the shelf and 
gave up for a bit


On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 4:41 PM Stephen Adolph  
wrote:

  Does anyone know if tsdos is at all compatible with dvi? 


  Dvi installs software of it's own.


  Does tsdos support access to the dvi?


  Can tsdos ram version be coresident with dvi software?


  If the answer is no then you have to do some serious gymnastics to 
transfer from pc to m100 using tsdos, and then from m100 to dvi using dvi dos.




  On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, James Zeun  
wrote:

Would it be possible to copy TR-DOS from the M100 to a floppy?  
Load it up through the DVI?
I've never uninstalled a program, so not sure where F7 comes in to 
it. Could I not simply KILL the rex manager?


I wanted the DVi for typing, but I need the REX for TR-DOS. So I 
can save my documents to SD CARD or TPDD etc.


On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:15 am Stephen Adolph, 
 wrote:

  Unload means deinstall using F7.  Not remove REX.  REX can stay 
installed physically...just deinstall rexmgr.ba.

  On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Kurt McCullum 
 wrote:

You can select TS-DOS with REX and then unload the REX manager. 
That way it looks to the M100 like a regular ROM is loaded and the DVI should 
work just fine from there.



Kurt


On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Gregory McGill wrote:

  well transferring files from a pc with mcomm/laddealpha to 
dvi is facilitated by having rexmgr load tsdos.. 







  On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:46 PM Stephen Adolph 
 wrote:

Yep.  

What I would do is make use of the deinstall function on 
rexmgr when you want to use dvi.



Of course I dont know of many option roms that work with 
dvi anyways.



What did you want to do that requires both rex and dvi?







On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Gregory McGill 
 wrote:

  Pretty sure I posted this a while back :)  yes they both 
want the same memory which is a bummer for transferring data between!



  On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:17 PM Josh Malone 
 wrote:

That has been my experience as well. It appears that 
something done by REXMGR interferes with the loading of DVI DOS. The REX can 
still be used as an option ROM, but REXMGR cannot coexist.



On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 4:33 PM James Zeun 
 wrote:

  Does the REX work with the DVI?



  Only I'm having serious issues getting my recently 
acquired DVI to work with my M100. It only seems to function with the REX 
manger is wiped from memory.

Re: [M100] REX & DVI

[Stephen Adolph]

The TTL serial hardware mod applied to the cassette port could be used , as
could the normal serial port.

I think that it would make sense to translate the control codes before they
leave the M100. So a new version of the DVI software, which includes
control code conversion to VT100 standard.
(an alternative is to rework the firmware in the VT100 emulator, which is
available, and make it speak M100)

Given your above example of an old laptop as a terminal emulator, yes it
could work and that is an argument for VT100 code generation in the M100
before it leaves.

WRT signal inversion, that's easy to do via software in the M100.

Thoughts?

..Steve

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 1:27 PM Mike Stein  wrote:

> Is the barcode patch going to be the 'official' interface?
>
> I haven't programmed mine yet; how useful is Geoff's terminal in 'normal'
> 8x40 M100 mode?
>
> I.e. does it handle all the various cursor etc. control codes properly?
>
> It's definitely a neat device but you could of course also use an old
> laptop or whatever running a terminal program that does a correct
> emulation, although that would presumably require a level shifter.
>
> @ Steve: since most level shifters also invert the signal and I assume
> you're bit-banging the interface, is there any possibility of an option to
> invert the signals in software?
>
>
> - Original Message -
> *From:* Stephen Adolph 
> *To:* m...@bitchin100.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 27, 2020 7:04 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [M100] REX & DVI
>
> What I think makes sense as a project is to direct efforts towards using
> the Geoff VT-100 terminal emulator with M100:
>
> http://geoffg.net/terminal.html
>
> This would be a great complement to M100.
>
> I think a great project would be to do some software work to rip into the
> DVI code, and pull out the video only routines, and rather than drive the
> DVI over the system bus, drive this "external VGA adapter" via serial.
>
> Several of us have started to disassemble DVI code.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:30 AM James Zeun  wrote:
>
>> That's really disappointing, I wish I had know before I bought it. The
>> whole point of getting the DVI was so that I could continue working on
>> documents at home on a bigger screen. I'd have just as been well to have
>> taken the SD card out of my NADSbox and stuck it in a winblows PC.
>>
>> Anyways I won't let that dampen my spirits! I'll figure something out.
>> Maybe a gotek drive in the DVI? Anyone tried that?
>>
>> I do desperately need a new DVI cable, can anyone help?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:44 am Stephen Adolph, 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree.  I dont think the issue is with rex.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Gregory McGill 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 I think the answer is no which is why i put my dvi on the shelf and
 gave up for a bit

 On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 4:41 PM Stephen Adolph 
 wrote:

> Does anyone know if tsdos is at all compatible with dvi?
>
> Dvi installs software of it's own.
>
> Does tsdos support access to the dvi?
>
> Can tsdos ram version be coresident with dvi software?
>
> If the answer is no then you have to do some serious gymnastics to
> transfer from pc to m100 using tsdos, and then from m100 to dvi using dvi
> dos.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, James Zeun 
> wrote:
>
>> Would it be possible to copy TR-DOS from the M100 to a floppy?
>> Load it up through the DVI?
>> I've never uninstalled a program, so not sure where F7 comes in to
>> it. Could I not simply KILL the rex manager?
>>
>> I wanted the DVi for typing, but I need the REX for TR-DOS. So I can
>> save my documents to SD CARD or TPDD etc.
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:15 am Stephen Adolph, 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Unload means deinstall using F7.  Not remove REX.  REX can stay
>>> installed physically...just deinstall rexmgr.ba.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Kurt McCullum 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 You can select TS-DOS with REX and then unload the REX manager.
 That way it looks to the M100 like a regular ROM is loaded and the DVI
 should work just fine from there.

 Kurt

 On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Gregory McGill wrote:

 well transferring files from a pc with mcomm/laddealpha to dvi is
 facilitated by having rexmgr load tsdos..



 On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:46 PM Stephen Adolph <
 twospru...@gmail.com> wrote:

 Yep.
 What I would do is make use of the deinstall function on rexmgr
 when you want to use dvi.

 Of course I dont know of many option roms that work with dvi
 anyways.

 What did you want to do that requires both rex and dvi?



 On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Gregory McGi

Re: [M100] REX & DVI

[Brian White]

There are different cables depending on if you have a 100, 102, or 200.

You can get a cable that works on one of those, or a kit that works on all
3 from arcadeshopper.

You can also build one. There are links to buy exact parts and pics here

http://tandy.wiki/Disk/Video_Interface:_Cable


As far as dosses co-existing, there are programs in the M100SIG archive
expressly to deal with the fact that most tpdd doses, dvi dos, chipmunk,
and probably more cannot coexist, so they wrote programs to swap them in
and out. You basically install one dos, run the util to stash it off to the
side where it's still physically present somewhere in memory, but not
active, then install some other dos, and then you can run the util to
switch between the two at will after that.

Probably it's because both dvidos and at least some tpdd dosses need to use
some of the same main rom hooks. The system rom has no code for dealing
with disks, but it does have a few hooks, which are just a special address
it will check in certain conditions, and jump to whatever address it reads
reads from there. It might be an immediate return/no-op, or it might be the
address of a dvidos or flopy2 or some other installed software's routine.
The routine is installed by software and could be anything, and it could be
stored anywhere in memory, but the special hook address that the system rom
looks at, there is only one of those and it's part of the system rom so it
can't be changed either.

If two different dosses need to supply their own different versions of a
routine for that hook, they can't both do it at the same time. Best you can
do is have the two routines in memory, and have a small program that you
can use to change the value in the hook address so that it points to
whichever dos you want.

I don't know how much of this is actually a problem with dvidos vs ts-dos.
I know that these hooks in the main rom exist for both disk and crt, and I
know dvidos uses them, but I don't know if floppy, flopy2, ts-dos, or any
other tpdd dosses use them, or if this is the main reason they can't both
be active at the same time. Maybe ts-dos doesn't use any of those hooks,
and there is some other reason they can't both be active at the same time.

-- 
bkw

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 4:30 AM James Zeun  wrote:

> That's really disappointing, I wish I had know before I bought it. The
> whole point of getting the DVI was so that I could continue working on
> documents at home on a bigger screen. I'd have just as been well to have
> taken the SD card out of my NADSbox and stuck it in a winblows PC.
>
> Anyways I won't let that dampen my spirits! I'll figure something out.
> Maybe a gotek drive in the DVI? Anyone tried that?
>
> I do desperately need a new DVI cable, can anyone help?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:44 am Stephen Adolph, 
> wrote:
>
>> I agree.  I dont think the issue is with rex.
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Gregory McGill 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the answer is no which is why i put my dvi on the shelf and gave
>>> up for a bit
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 4:41 PM Stephen Adolph 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Does anyone know if tsdos is at all compatible with dvi?

 Dvi installs software of it's own.

 Does tsdos support access to the dvi?

 Can tsdos ram version be coresident with dvi software?

 If the answer is no then you have to do some serious gymnastics to
 transfer from pc to m100 using tsdos, and then from m100 to dvi using dvi
 dos.



 On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, James Zeun 
 wrote:

> Would it be possible to copy TR-DOS from the M100 to a floppy?
> Load it up through the DVI?
> I've never uninstalled a program, so not sure where F7 comes in to it.
> Could I not simply KILL the rex manager?
>
> I wanted the DVi for typing, but I need the REX for TR-DOS. So I can
> save my documents to SD CARD or TPDD etc.
>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 12:15 am Stephen Adolph, 
> wrote:
>
>> Unload means deinstall using F7.  Not remove REX.  REX can stay
>> installed physically...just deinstall rexmgr.ba.
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Kurt McCullum 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You can select TS-DOS with REX and then unload the REX manager. That
>>> way it looks to the M100 like a regular ROM is loaded and the DVI should
>>> work just fine from there.
>>>
>>> Kurt
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Gregory McGill wrote:
>>>
>>> well transferring files from a pc with mcomm/laddealpha to dvi is
>>> facilitated by having rexmgr load tsdos..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:46 PM Stephen Adolph 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep.
>>> What I would do is make use of the deinstall function on rexmgr when
>>> you want to use dvi.
>>>
>>> Of course I dont know of many option roms that work with dvi anyways.
>>>
>>> What did you want to