Re: [M100] New zebra strips for M100 display ? any interest?

2021-07-12 Thread C.Magaret
I would be interested in four pairs if this ever gets rolling. Best, CAM -- C.A. Magaret Sent from my newfangled mobile technogizmo. Please forgive any typos, inelegant brevity, or nonsensical auto-corrections. > On Jul 7, 2021, at 14:39, Jamie Nichol wrote: >  > Peter, > > Looks like a

Re: [M100] A decent replacement for M100 "Feet"

2021-07-12 Thread Brian White
bkw On Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 9:48 PM Brian Brindle wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 5:34 PM Brian K. White > wrote: > >> >> >> master actually? or latest default branch which is not master but 0.4.1? >> I didn't have master marked as default currently because I thought I had >> made it worse,

Re: [M100] A decent replacement for M100 "Feet"

2021-07-12 Thread Brian Brindle
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 5:34 PM Brian K. White wrote: > > > master actually? or latest default branch which is not master but 0.4.1? > I didn't have master marked as default currently because I thought I had > made it worse, you know like the partly-broken point mid-way in a > refactor, so I made

Re: [M100] A decent replacement for M100 "Feet"

2021-07-12 Thread RETRO Innovations
On 7/12/2021 4:34 PM, Brian K. White wrote: On 7/12/21 7:23 AM, Brian Brindle wrote: I agree on the risk with the USB ports, you wouldn't typically design something like this. But I appreciate the out of the box thinking that got me past that. The current limiting etc can easily be done in the

Re: [M100] A decent replacement for M100 "Feet"

2021-07-12 Thread Brian K. White
On 7/11/21 8:13 AM, Brian Brindle wrote: Then you go and pop a USB jack on the BC port I missed my que, what I meant to say was "THERE ARE NO RULES. ELECTRONICS IS THE PURGE." -- bkw

Re: [M100] A decent replacement for M100 "Feet"

2021-07-12 Thread Brian K. White
On 7/12/21 7:23 AM, Brian Brindle wrote: I agree on the risk with the USB ports, you wouldn't typically design something like this. But I appreciate the out of the box thinking that got me past that. The current limiting etc can easily be done in the end device, and that's what I choose to do.

Re: [M100] Super ROM for NEC

2021-07-12 Thread Stephen Adolph
I've disassembled and taken a quick look. it is quite different than "MO" would have done, but the trampoline is clear. (using DASMX140, which seems to be a really good disassembler!) On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 1:30 PM John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > I think it very doable. It comes down to the comp

Re: [M100] Super ROM for NEC

2021-07-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 11:02 AM Brian K. White wrote: > On 7/12/21 1:30 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > > Definitely worth it given SuperROM being the best ROM :-) > > > > -- John. > > > I wish you wouldn't be so coy and cryptic about your stance on what the > best option rom ever released was.

Re: [M100] Super ROM for NEC

2021-07-12 Thread Brian K. White
On 7/12/21 1:30 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: I think it very doable. It comes down to the completeness and quality of the disassembly and identifying all jumps into the BASIC ROM including indirect or computed jumps and mapping them from M100 to NEC. The option ROM skeleton and trampoline stuf

Re: [M100] Super ROM for NEC

2021-07-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
I think it very doable. It comes down to the completeness and quality of the disassembly and identifying all jumps into the BASIC ROM including indirect or computed jumps and mapping them from M100 to NEC. The option ROM skeleton and trampoline stuff is probably the best understood and easiest par

Re: [M100] Super ROM for NEC

2021-07-12 Thread Brian K. White
I can only say that if you think you can do it, then I think you can do it. It certainly would be cool. -- bkw On 7/12/21 8:30 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote: Noting that SuperROM has never been found (or never released?) for NEC, it seems to me given what I know about making applications run on bot

Re: [M100] M100 as Terminal to Raspberry Pi

2021-07-12 Thread Bill Miranda
Brian your response was much appreciated. I am still having a problem with my Pi. I got it working at home but then I took it to the office and plugged it in but I thought I would be able to change the wifi from the terminal connection. No joy. I guess I need to change the wpa supplicant file at

Re: [M100] M100 as Terminal to Raspberry Pi

2021-07-12 Thread Brian Brindle
Hi Bill, I totally missed that you actually had your console working, sorry the systemd changes make me blind with rage. If you are primarily using BBSes X-modem works pretty well, if you have an X-Modem capable term on your M100. You can also send files to/from the M100 via the Linux command lin

Re: [M100] Super ROM for NEC

2021-07-12 Thread Brad Grier
Interesting! Was discussing the availability of a SuperRom image for NEC just this past weekend on Discord with @Fezzler and I was wondering how difficult it would be to convert. Your description of the process is somewhat 'greek' to me so I'm guessing that I'd need to level up a bit to be able to

[M100] Super ROM for NEC

2021-07-12 Thread Stephen Adolph
Noting that SuperROM has never been found (or never released?) for NEC, it seems to me given what I know about making applications run on both platforms, that it should be very straightforward to translate the M100 SuperROM into an NEC variant. After all, the NEC and M100 are so similar. Does any

Re: [M100] M100 as Terminal to Raspberry Pi

2021-07-12 Thread Bill Miranda
Thank you so much! Embarrassingly I discovered my problem was that that I had to go into raspi-config and designate my country so the WiFi would work. The packages I was trying to install on my raspberry pi weren’t installing because no internet. Once I got that sorted and made a couple change

Re: [M100] A decent replacement for M100 "Feet"

2021-07-12 Thread Brian Brindle
I agree on the risk with the USB ports, you wouldn't typically design something like this. But I appreciate the out of the box thinking that got me past that. The current limiting etc can easily be done in the end device, and that's what I choose to do. In reality, only one person is likely ever go

Re: [M100] M100 as Terminal to Raspberry Pi

2021-07-12 Thread Brian Brindle
HI Bill, The divergence from systemd is frustrating but at last current versions of Raspian still have ifconfig... I'm using Raspian 10 here are my quick and dirty hints: Get your termcap sorted: https://zork.net/~octal/mod100.xhtml You will note that termcap doesn't exist like it should though

Re: [M100] A decent replacement for M100 "Feet"

2021-07-12 Thread Scott McDonnell
“That IS a bit risky. Ideally there should be some sort of current limit to avoid drawing more than 50 or 60 ma. But I don't know how to do that in a small practical way.” Wouldn’t a 82 (or 100 for 50ma) ohm resistor in series do the trick? Scott M. From: Brian White Sent: Sunday, July 11, 202