Re: [M100] Remem programming guide

2017-07-09 Thread Mike Stein
Thanks again! No question, RAM disks are usually the fastest form of data storage; on the other hand you can take your FAT-compatible SD card or USB stick over to your PC where 'transfer' is convenient and also pretty quick... A REX or even something equivalent to a modified XR4 could probably

[M100] Remem programming guide

2017-07-09 Thread Stephen Adolph
Mike here is the latest programming Info doc for remem. I think the advantage the remem offers is super fast ram disk. Basically the cpm disk is memory mapped. Other than that remem is way overkill and complicated... Steve ReMem Programming GuideV4_1.doc Description: MS-Word document

Re: [M100] Remem programming guide

2017-07-09 Thread Mike Stein
Thanks! - Original Message - From: Stephen Adolph To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2017 10:00 PM Subject: [M100] Remem programming guide Mike here is the latest remem programming info. I think the advantage remem provixed for cpm is a memory mapped disk blo

[M100] Remem programming guide

2017-07-09 Thread Stephen Adolph
Mike here is the latest remem programming info. I think the advantage remem provixed for cpm is a memory mapped disk block. Other than that...too complicated!! Steve ReMem Programming GuideV4_1.docx Description: MS-Word 2007 document

Re: [M100] It's Alive!

2017-07-09 Thread Mike Stein
12 MHz?? You must mean one of the late Turbo versions. I've got one or two somewhere, think VT will run on it? ;-) I suspect he just hadn't noticed the speed button; where is it on the real M100 ? m - Original Message - From: "Ken Pettit" To: Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2017 9:18 PM Sub

Re: [M100] It's Alive!

2017-07-09 Thread Ken Pettit
Actually, when I was testing AsciiPixels a year and a half ago, I noticed VirtualT was a fair bit faster than a real M100 when it came to LCD controller access, so I added additional delay to the emulation in 2.4MHz Speed setting. Perhaps It was a little too much delay. If you run with Max sp

Re: [M100] It's Alive!

2017-07-09 Thread John Gardner
...When are you going to speed up Virtual T? Not necessarily a bad thing - If it works on the emulator it may well work on the target hardware :) On 7/9/17, Mike Stein wrote: > Hey Ken, > > When are you going to speed up Virtual T? The guy in the video says it's > slower than a real M100 !

Re: [M100] It's Alive!

2017-07-09 Thread Mike Stein
Hey Ken, When are you going to speed up Virtual T? The guy in the video says it's slower than a real M100 ! - Original Message - From: Ken Pettit To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2017 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [M100] It's Alive! Hi Jason, Welcome to the worl

Re: [M100] Alternative he for cpm

2017-07-09 Thread MikeS
As I said, I'm not sure what the availability of those uDrives is these days, but there is Z80 code out there for them and IIRC even CP/M BIOS routines. They do tie up the serial port though, although you could probably bit-bang SPI or something similar instead. There are also parallel<>USB ad

Re: [M100] Alternative he for cpm

2017-07-09 Thread Philip Avery
Any of those would solve the 64K RAM issue, even REX2 as it stands I believe. What about RAMdisk/Disk & transferring to the outside world? Mike Stein pointed me to some micro SD adaptions out there, such as this: https://www.4dsystems.com.au/product/uVGA_III/ Could an OptROM sized board acco

Re: [M100] CP/M has arrived for the M100

2017-07-09 Thread Philip Avery
Thanks Gary Are you meaning to use CP/M on a real NEC? That would depend on whether any new hardware developed will apply to the NEC. Once it works on a real M100, then the BIOS changes required for NEC would be relatively minor I should think. I'm curious as to what sort of CP/M programs yo

Re: [M100] CP/M has arrived for the M100

2017-07-09 Thread Philip Avery
Hi Roger I did those as part of the installation. Starting off with the assembly listing of CP/M 2.2, I was able to build it up one step at a time. That's different than the traditional Regeneration process of pulling the binary down from a floppy disk. Philip On 9/07/2017 10:45 PM, roger w

Re: [M100] It's Alive!

2017-07-09 Thread Ken Pettit
Hi Jason, Welcome to the world of M100 BASIC programming! I looked at your code ... didn't run it yet. The basic structure looks good. Some advice as far as variables that would speed things up: 1. The variable names "GRID" and "RGRID" are 4 and 5 characters long each. BASIC only uses t

Re: [M100] It's Alive!

2017-07-09 Thread Jason Benson
Thanks to the super helpful video by Allan Zieser on Youtube( https://youtu.be/jBCshRbrHO8 ) I was able to transfer my life program to my PC. If anyone wants to take a look at it you can find it here: https://pastebin.com/3cN0E6Va Please note, I am a novice programmer, so my code is crap, but it w

Re: [M100] CP/M has arrived for the M100

2017-07-09 Thread Mike Stein
An amazing thing indeed... However, if all you want/need is to run some CP/M program(s) or work with old CP/M data disks there are quite a few CP/M emulators out there for pretty well any platform, as well as programs to convert among different disk formats. Unfortunately the issue with running

Re: [M100] CP/M has arrived for the M100

2017-07-09 Thread Gary Weber
Philip, It is an amazing thing you have done. I used to have an 8201A with the PIC-Disk system that provided a full blown CP/M operating system. After losing that original computer and disk system to theft, I was left without access to 20 disks of CP/M files and programs and back-ups of my 8201

[M100] Alternative he for cpm

2017-07-09 Thread Stephen Adolph
Building on Philip's success i could suggest We can revive an old hw design for external ram based storage...the rampac ... which plugs into the system bus. Easy to make. Works on m100 t102 t200. Or A variant of quad could provide ram for both memory banks plus ram disk. M100 only. Lastly rat

Re: [M100] CP/M has arrived for the M100

2017-07-09 Thread roger
Have you got all the cbios calls working or do you want help writing then? Roger Skickat från min Samsung Galaxy-smartphone. Originalmeddelande Från: Philip Avery Datum: 2017-07-09 01:33 (GMT+01:00) Till: m100 Rubrik: [M100] CP/M has arrived for the M100 Well, it's arrived

Re: [M100] CP/M has arrived for the M100

2017-07-09 Thread roger
Have you got all the cbios calls working or do you want help writing then? Roger Skickat från min Samsung Galaxy-smartphone. Originalmeddelande Från: Philip Avery Datum: 2017-07-09 01:33 (GMT+01:00) Till: m100 Rubrik: [M100] CP/M has arrived for the M100 Well, it's arrived

Re: [M100] CP/M has arrived for the M100

2017-07-09 Thread Willard Goosey
On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 18:14:01 +1200 Philip Avery wrote: > After I posted that comment on Small C, I realised there's > undoubtedly a CP/M version of Small-C. Multiple versions. CP/M is Small-C's original home, after all. > An advantage of doing it in > CP/M instead of native M100 mode is you have