Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM

[Ken Pettit]

Hi All,

Sorry, didn't reply to this for quite some time ... the family caught 
Covid-19 last week and I was still recovering (I was taking care of 
everyone and then was the last to get it).


I will look into my T200 AciiPixels implementation to see if I ever (or 
can still) get it to a stand-alone .CO file.


Also, I will document the binary format so it is no longer "Top Secret" :)

Ken

On 6/30/22 10:33 PM, B 9 wrote:
If you would, I'd greatly appreciate it as reverse-engineering it and 
porting it to the T200 is well beyond my abilities.


Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but is the only documentation for the 
graphics format in the source code (e.g., pbm2ap.c)? The docs I found 
on club100 simply say, "TOP SECRET!"  😆


--b9

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 12:59 PM Ken Pettit > wrote:


Hey b9,

I would have to go back and check the T200 support.  I know I had
ASCPIX working on T200 at one point because I had a few demos of
some full-screen images and even a screen mock-up of Mahjong tiles.

Ken

On 6/30/22 12:33 AM, B 9 wrote:

Thank you, Tom and John! TSWEEP doesn't seem to work on my Tandy
200 when ASCPIX.CO  is loaded. I get a syntax
error in line 16000 which is the first call to ASCPIX that
actually tries to show something: CALL A, 2,  VARPTR(F$)

Ken Petit's member page at club100 has a download for ASCPIX.CO
 that mentions the Model 100/102, but I don't
see a separate version for the Tandy 200. The documentation for
ASCPIX


says it works for both, but doesn't mention how.

Perhaps I am using it wrong? There are no instructions in the
TSWEEP program, so I'm using the brief instructions Ken Petit

posted back in 2017.

CLEAR 256, 58000
LOADM "ASCPIX"
RUN "TSWEEP"

—b9


On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 8:32 PM John R. Hogerhuis
mailto:jho...@pobox.com>> wrote:

Here's some files I have in my Google drive For tsweep

Re: [M100] REX# and Option ROMs: Qs from a noob

[Joshua O'Keefe]

> On Jul 6, 2022, at 5:53 AM, Charles Hudson  wrote:
> I found the OR files at http://www.club100.org/library/librom.html and 
> inspected a few.  Immediately I was out of my depth, so pardon me for 
> inquiring:

Hi Charles,

I'd suggest you might want to start with the binary files at 
http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=REXsharp#Option_ROM_Images_for_Download
 as that's a pretty comprehensive slice of the ROMs out there which work with 
the device.  Conveniently, they are already converted from HEX format into the 
BY format used by the REXMGR.

[M100] REX# and Option ROMs: Qs from a noob

[Charles Hudson]

Late to the party, I just got my REX# installed and have managed to
communicate with a PC running Laddie Alpha from a T102.  Reading the REX
Manager User Guide (
https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=REX_Manager_User_Guide_for_REXsharp)
I am now interested in loading one of the option ROMs mentioned in the text.

I found the OR files at http://www.club100.org/library/librom.html and
inspected a few.  Immediately I was out of my depth, so pardon me for
inquiring:

The files are text files in a format named .HEX, which appears to be a
combination of addresses and values, but I'm not sure how much is address
and how much is memory value.  I'm also not sure what program translates
this format into something the T102 can understand or if they are intended
to be loaded as-is.  (My HEX editor misunderstands them; includes
colon-prefixed addresses as memory values)  Additionally, the file contents
themselves do not suggest what the ROM is supposed to be used for, and in
some cases I can't figure it out from the title, either.  MULTIPLAN, OK;
but BOOSTER PACK?

As it happens I have the Interactive Solutions ROM, v.1.0, in the form of
an IC currently installed in another T102.  As an exercise it might be
interesting to read this ROM.  I could create a binary or hex file from its
contents but have no idea how to put it into the Club 100's format.

Thanks for any info...

-CH-




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