Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-24 Thread Peter Vollan
Can't I just load it into my Model 100 as a do file and convert it to basic? I don't follow why you are doing the cassette part. On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 15:05, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > Super cool Lloyd. I think I might have owned that book... > > For those that want to try Lloyd's game in your

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-24 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Super cool Lloyd. I think I might have owned that book... For those that want to try Lloyd's game in your browser you can quickly paste it into CloudT What I did to load it: Copy raw text to clipboad from github https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LEJ-Projects/Star-Merchant---NEC-PC-8201A-TRS80-M

Re: [M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-24 Thread Brian K. White
Very nice. Thank you. On 6/24/21 5:27 PM, lloydel...@comcast.net wrote: Star Merchant is a game that I wrote over 40 years ago.   It was originally published in the August 1981 issue of Creative Computing.  It reappeared in David Ahl's book, Big Computer Games. I recently rehosted it to the

[M100] Star Merchant

2021-06-24 Thread lloydelmer
Star Merchant is a game that I wrote over 40 years ago. It was originally published in the August 1981 issue of Creative Computing. It reappeared in David Ahl's book, Big Computer Games. I recently rehosted it to the TRS-80 Model 100 and NEC PC-8201A. I tweaked a few of the parameters to mak

Re: [M100] reuse Palm pilot as a serial LCD display for M100

2021-06-24 Thread JOHN JR & VIRGINIA WHITTON
Heh. Maybe...if I can find them. Moreover, I kind of suspect that they were simply coded directly in the device, which would mean that they are gone. I used the Palm and ADIOS board for monitoring some stuff. My recollection is that there were only a few lines of Basic involved...opening a port,

Re: [M100] reuse Palm pilot as a serial LCD display for M100

2021-06-24 Thread Stephen Adolph
hi John, very interesting. I forgot about Hotpaw. Can you share your programs for using the serial port? thanks! Steve On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 12:34 AM JOHN JR & VIRGINIA WHITTON < jwhit...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > A good while back, I developed several trivial applications for my Pal, > using Hot