Re: [M100] DIY laptop

2024-08-14 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Aug 14, 2024, at 2:32 PM, David Anderson wrote: > > https://www.clockworkpi.com/home-devterm > It really looks like it was influenced by the M100. You can see the influences, for sure! I don't think I could be convinced to buy one as the entire keyboard is about 7" wide at most. I find tha

Re: [M100] Mouse in a Maze

2024-08-06 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Aug 6, 2024, at 5:33 AM, Kenneth Pettit wrote: > > mask = ~(0x01 << data); Wow, Ken, it's amazing how you can just zoom right into a spot in the code and find this so quickly based on the bug description. That's the sign of a man who knows his codebase well... I've gone ahead and merged

Re: [M100] Mouse in a Maze

2024-08-03 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Aug 3, 2024, at 5:45 AM, > wrote: > > The mazes that were made for both the Altair version and the M100 version > were generated by a C program running under windows. As a note, the C program works without modification on at least two platforms I tried to compile it on: macOS and Linux

Re: [M100] Double precision format (N82 BASIC) and inaccuracy from simply saving a file

2024-07-31 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jul 31, 2024, at 3:22 PM, B 9 wrote: > > Now, I have some questions: Is this well known? Is it documented anywhere? > Was this implementation something Microsoft did or was the floating point > math one of the additions NEC made for N82 BASIC? Is it possible for there to > be a loop such

Re: [M100] Model 100 System ROM dload?

2024-07-04 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jul 3, 2024, at 5:09 PM, Jim Anderson wrote: > > I tried visiting several of the pages (including the one for PERIOD) and they > all worked with a little bit of URL rewriting. For instance, the broken link > for further info on PERIOD is [...] Jim, thanks for digging into this a bit deep

Re: [M100] Model 100 System ROM dload?

2024-06-25 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jun 25, 2024, at 6:52 AM, RETRO Innovations wrote: > > It's a bit disappointing the images were not of some earlier version of > the OS, Has any variant of the system ROM been found, at least one that isn't a localization or a date hack? It seems like the production ROM sprung fully-for

Re: [M100] Model 100 System ROM dload?

2024-06-25 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jun 25, 2024, at 2:11 AM, Walt Perko wrote: > > How about posting the ROM files so they can be shared with others for > comparison, or maybe repaing a Modle 100 computer? If you simply need a copy of the production ROM, there's a binary that ships with VirtualT. I maintain an updated fo

Re: [M100] Baldur's Gate/ "Dungeon Delver" on Model 100

2024-06-20 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
Just a quick follow-up on my threat to make a REX .by file image with this game already loaded: It's here: Just import the BG31.BY file into your REX, switch to it, and CALL 45568 The requisite CLEAR has already been taken care of, since the game is

Re: [M100] CSAVEM bugfix to CloudT

2024-06-13 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jun 13, 2024, at 11:22 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > I fixed the bugs... so if I Add File BG31.CO , I can CLOADM > and then CSAVEM it back out as a new file, download it, and they hash to the > same value. > > -- John. Thanks for this, John. I'd been planning to val

Re: [M100] Baldur's Gate/ "Dungeon Delver" on Model 100

2024-06-12 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jun 12, 2024, at 3:11 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > I opened an issue to request CO files be included. While I didn't submit a PR to the engine project, I did submit a PR to the "Baldur's Gate" project that updates the build script to produce a CO — and validated that the resulting fil

Re: [M100] "CIA Adventure" - Ported from Model I to Model 100

2024-04-24 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
I have patched up some of the bugs reported; note that the game is not necessarily fully playable. As a port from a system with a larger screen, some text may scroll off the screen. Also be aware that this isn't actually a very good game; as I mention in the README, I only ported it because I di

Re: [M100] "CIA Adventure" - Ported from Model I to Model 100

2024-04-24 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Apr 24, 2024, at 9:14 AM, David Plass wrote: > > Also line 465 says "IF ... PRINT" but it needs a THEN. > On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:02 PM Justin Poirier > wrote: > I think that some syntax, while not throwing an error, will still need to be > fixed to work co

[M100] "CIA Adventure" - Ported from Model I to Model 100

2024-04-23 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
Hi folks, After stumbling over the game on a TRSDOS disk image, I started doing a bit of porting work on the game "CIA Adventure" — I had never finished it back in the 1980 — with the original aim to port to the modern qb64 BASIC compiler. When that succeeded, I decided to add on a bonus port t

Re: [M100] Windows 98 solution for TPDD emulation

2024-04-21 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
There's also a backport of Framework 3.5 to Windows 9x here: Utterly fascinating reverse engineering work done to make this possible — originally as a backport of Framework 2.0 to Windows 95 — documented here:

Re: [M100] VirtualT mainline source code

2024-03-17 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Mar 16, 2024, at 10:37 PM, B 9 wrote: > > Is Virtual T no longer being released by the original developers? (Ken Petit? > Stephen Hurd?) I am not the upstream by any stretch of the imagination, but I am also maintaining what I think is the "best of breed" fork with as many of the patche

Re: [M100] Adding Gotek to T100 Disk Video Interface

2024-03-15 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Mar 15, 2024, at 4:03 AM, Gary Wilkinson wrote: > if anyone can help to either describe how I can create a disk image from the > T200 DVI floppy disk, or if anyone already has a T200 DVI disk image file > that they could supply, then I'd be very grateful! Steve put in a bunch of effort to

Re: [M100] looking for assembler/debugger

2024-03-13 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Mar 13, 2024, at 1:04 PM, Will Senn wrote: > > Now, I'm interested and looking for an assembler - help appreciated. Hi there, Will, I have a small collection of files that were hard to find anywhere else, and that includes "ZBUG" (Radio Shack's 26-3823), which is the Microsoft assembler

Re: [M100] Message Database

2024-03-10 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Mar 9, 2024, at 9:24 PM, Hiraghm wrote: > > I just noticed that in Thunderbird mailer, I have mailing list entries dating > back to 2013. > > I was thinking of going through them, and making a database of topics that > people could search for past conversations. Hi Hiraghm, The list arc

Re: [M100] virtualt on Linux problem

2024-02-25 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Feb 25, 2024, at 12:27 PM, Joshua O'Keefe wrote: > > I've consolidated the various forks and branches of virtualt that are > floating around into a single fork: > < https://github.com/majick/virtualt-code > As a convenience, I have released precompiled binarie

Re: [M100] virtualt on Linux problem

2024-02-25 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 24, 2024, at 7:04 PM, Hiraghm wrote: > > Can anyone advise me how to get virtualt working on Linux? I've consolidated the various forks and branches of virtualt that are floating around into a single fork: < https://github.com/majick/virtualt-code > On this fork I have combined: * Fix

Re: [M100] Tandy TPDD-1 Drive

2024-01-11 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jan 11, 2024, at 10:46 AM, Scott Joyce wrote: > > I recently acquired a TDPP1 drive and just purchased a cable but am now > finding I need the Utility/Boot disk. I would appreciate any help in getting > a copy of the disk so I can get this little gem functioning properly again. Congratul

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Dec 13, 2023, at 1:34 PM, Brian Brindle wrote: > > building up a CP/M emulation environment on the TanPi Feel free to reach out about this off-list. I've done a fair bit of fooling around with the various CP/M emulation environments and have found RunCPM to work *really* well as a daily

Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102

2023-12-13 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Dec 13, 2023, at 6:22 AM, Brian Brindle wrote: > My whole setup is a total kludge / hack that I never expected to use long > term. I was just doing a POC and built the whole thing in about 10 minutes > with stuff I had laying around but here we are almost five years later... Brian, you ma

Re: [M100] M100 ergonomics

2023-12-11 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Dec 10, 2023, at 4:47 PM, runrin wrote: > I've found that it's pretty difficult for me to find a comfortable > position to use my Model 100 for any length of time. I'm always bending > forward to get a better view when I sit at a table or desk, and when it's on > my lap the lack of palmrest

Re: [M100] M100 ergonomics

2023-12-11 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Dec 11, 2023, at 4:08 AM, Brian Brindle wrote: > I have a hacked together perl script that sends each key press from the Tandy > to the X-windows system as keyboard input Brian, I remember you mentioning you'd wired up the serial output to XTest in some fun way (wrapping xdotool or X11::

Re: [M100] Alternate keymaps on the M100 (and a question about caps lock)

2023-11-25 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Nov 25, 2023, at 4:54 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > > I use the Telemark TASM32. I think you can find it online, not sure. bergen is a modern open source reimplementation of Telemark TASM, intended as a drop-in replacement that runs on modern platforms. I haven't tested it but it looks l

Re: [M100] Text Sweeper 2.7.3

2023-11-25 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Nov 25, 2023, at 6:24 AM, ho collo wrote: > > Yes Ken — A majority of the world still uses windows. What would make you > think otherwise? The vast majority of the planet runs on Unix-like platforms. Windows is pretty much only popular on desktops, which are a tiny fraction of the comput

Re: [M100] Model T clock doubler

2023-11-23 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Nov 23, 2023, at 8:13 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > > If it adds value, getting a linux version would be nice too I think. > I'm happy to share the files I compiled. Hey Steve, I'd love access to the source code to make an attempt at building a Linux version. I'm far from a .Net guy but I

Re: [M100] Model T clock doubler

2023-11-23 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Nov 23, 2023, at 5:27 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > > So now my windows machine has a terminal that obeys M100 screen codes, and > character set. Since you're continuing to use the program, I'm curious how well it's been serving you. Has this version mostly held up when you reach for it?

Re: [M100] Model T clock doubler

2023-11-22 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Nov 22, 2023, at 9:01 PM, MikeS wrote: > > MVT100 Windows application??? I think that's referring to this program: http://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?direction=&order=&directory=Steve%20Adolph/MVT100%20for%20PC&; To quote Steve: "This is a Windows program that is serial-fed terminal emul

Re: [M100] Convert integer to string WITHOUT leading space?

2023-07-10 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jul 9, 2023, at 7:22 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > MID$(STR$(A%),2+(A%<0)) This is a lovely, compact way to address something I’ve used a verbose solution for. Thank you!

Re: [M100] M102 bag trade for m100?

2023-06-04 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
Are you referring to the faux-leather carrying sleeve? If so, I'd be up for a trade, since my "daily driver" is a 102, but my only intact sleeve is for a 100 and it swims around loose in the thing. I'll reach out off-list. I'm a little surprised a 100 can even fit in the smaller one! > On Jun

Re: [M100] Variable Concordance - MTVarConcor

2023-05-01 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On May 1, 2023, at 5:03 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > > It worked fine on the test program; FYI, attached is the program it died on. > I was able to reproduce the crash and ran it through gdb. The last line of your "Eliza.bas" file seems to make line 100 of the code very unhappy. It seems to be an

Re: [M100] Variable Concordance - MTVarConcor

2023-05-01 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On May 1, 2023, at 3:58 PM, lloydel...@comcast.net wrote: > Not using the output file is odd. I'm delighted to report that this turned out to be an operator error rather than a program error.

Re: [M100] Variable Concordance - MTVarConcor

2023-05-01 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
Hi Lloyd, I'm happy to report your code compiled without error on a modern Linux system, although I did run into some very minor non-breaking bugs in operation. Currently it ignores the "output file" and emits the tokenization to stdout. After that, it produces output that matches your test o

Re: [M100] PC-8201A UsersGuide - page broken/unreadbale

2023-04-22 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Apr 22, 2023, at 11:56 AM, M100 Librarian wrote:I believe I made a good scan of this manual. Here is the linkSince that link is login-only, and I have a throwaway account on that service, I have mirrored the document on my public S3 bucket and on the Internet Archive for those who don't have or

Re: [M100] Original ROM source

2023-03-28 Thread Rev. Joshua O'Keefe
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 08:03:37AM -0400, Louis Ciotti wrote: > Hi all, > > Getting back into Retro Computing and out of curiosity is the source for the > original 100/102 ROMs available? While there is not original OEM source, several folks have done annotated disassemby: https://github.com/er

Re: [M100] - Backpack

2023-03-03 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Mar 2, 2023, at 3:45 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > The dinner bell interrupts you. Is there a vector I can hook a routine to? I have a ton of code I'd love to run at interrupt if it won't disrupt the dinner timing itself.

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-28 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 28, 2023, at 11:21 AM, B 9 wrote: > Last year I wrote a tokenizer in C. ¹ [well, lexx] > https://github.com/hackerb9/tokenize > Thank you for reminding me of this! I was trying to remember it and it was the lexx I wanted!

[M100] dlplus naming

2023-02-25 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 24, 2023, at 7:55 AM, Brian K. White wrote: > dl2 makes the most sense if I didn't care about the "dl" part. It says what > it is and what to expect correctly and succinctly. You are not obligated to take end user expectation into the equation here, however the end user is mostly just

Re: [M100] Radio Shack trs80 Model 200 for sale

2023-02-24 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 24, 2023, at 5:57 AM, Randall Kindig wrote: > > I didn’t get a response either. After this thread revived (thanks b 9!) I received an off-list reply that it had been sold. Nice to hear it didn't wind up making that dump run after all.

Re: [M100] Radio Shack trs80 Model 200 for sale

2023-02-24 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
Alas, no response.  I assume the poor thing went into the trash.On Feb 23, 2023, at 11:44 PM, B 9 wrote:Did Kevin ever respond to your offer? —b9On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 10:45 AM Joshua O'Keefe <maj...@nachomountain.com> wrote:Hello Kevin.Would you accept €150 for packing and ship

Re: [M100] M100 "VT52" terminal emulator for PC

2023-02-20 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 20, 2023, at 5:45 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote: >  > After quite a bit of searching I finally found what I was looking for. > It is a VT52 terminal emulator written in C#, and compilable in Visual > Studio. I've been able to install the tools and been able to compile it. Steve, this is ex

Re: [M100] Radio Shack trs80 Model 200 for sale

2023-02-19 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 18, 2023, at 12:11 AM, Kevin Lee wrote: > > Offers welcome. Or it heads for the trash. > > T200 with multi plan option rom and instructions. > Including protective briefcase. > > Shipping from Central Europe. Hello Kevin. Would you accept €150 for packing and shipping of the c

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

2023-02-19 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 19, 2023, at 6:58 AM, B 9 wrote: > > TextSweeper could benefit from more rows, which ROM-View 80 doesn't do. Does > anyone know if there is a ROM to do that? Ultrascreen100 can do this. I found my copy in Gary Weber's member upload area. At 10 lines the font is not beautiful for tex

Re: [M100] One Tiny Battery Pack (Cryptronics, RAM+ expansion)

2023-02-19 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 17, 2023, at 9:49 PM, Brian K. White wrote: > I can't find a copy of tsload on-line anywhere unfortunately. I ran into this same rarity problem and Kurt came to my rescue. Because it was such a pain to lay my hands on I stuck it in my S3 bucket: http://public.nachomountain.com/files/

Re: [M100] CloudT fix for touchscreens

2023-01-15 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jan 16, 2023, at 7:32 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > Might work on iOS too, haven't tried it. Worked for me on iOS with touch, a touchpad, and the OEM's stylus -- all of which are semi-distinct pointing methods as far as the platform is concerned. I didn't get a chance to haul out a mo

Re: [M100] TS-DOS Option ROM

2022-12-21 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Dec 21, 2022, at 4:48 PM, Jerry Davis wrote: > So here's my vouchery: [ followed by details ] I would like to confirm having done business with Jeff, Gregory, and Stephen, in addition to Peter and other individuals on this list. In every instance the outcome has been positive, reliable, a

Re: [M100] Generating and detecting other tones via the cassette port

2022-11-22 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Nov 22, 2022, at 11:49 AM, Douglas Quagliana wrote: >  > Has anyone experimented with generating and detecting tones on the cassette > port other than the standard cassette mark and space frequencies? Douglas, While this isn't a direct answer to your question, for which I apologize, it

Re: [M100] Bitchin' 100 on Bing

2022-11-13 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Nov 13, 2022, at 6:07 AM, bir...@soigeneris.com wrote: >  > Looks like something in the specifier is broken, a more generic set of terms > works fine. Hi Jeff, You may notice that the screenshot of results you found include many results that include the text "bitchin100", none of which a

Re: [M100] Club100 Personal Library

2022-11-12 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Nov 12, 2022, at 6:07 AM, Jason White wrote: > I would like to create a library there and upload some of my programs that > don't seem to be anywhere. Hi, Jason. I don't have any control over Club100 whatsoever, but I would gladly publicly mirror any M100 related files you (or anyone else

Re: [M100] Notoriously S.L.O.W BASIC posted - help speeding it up appreciated

2022-11-12 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> Cover will be a picture of me with lockdown beard and a Model 100 strapped on > the back of my 286cc motorcycle. Where is he going? Nowhere exceedingly fast I'll admit my primary interest in this notional book -- a high interest, I should add -- is in its content, the bike and beard will certa

Re: [M100] Notoriously S.L.O.W BASIC posted - help speeding it up appreciated

2022-10-31 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 31, 2022, at 1:31 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > The other way to do that is filesystems and backup agents that give you a > time machine feature. My TPDD emulator of choice is pointed at a corner of my home directory. My home directory is in a ZFS dataset. The ZFS dataset is snapsho

Re: [M100] Notoriously S.L.O.W BASIC posted - help speeding it up appreciated

2022-10-27 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 27, 2022, at 8:39 PM, B 9 wrote: > 200 REM Print 2 hexits In all my years, this is the first time I have seen the term "hexit." From the code it's apparently another way of describing a hex representation of a nibble! Quite a good couple of days for learning from the list, that's for

Re: [M100] Notoriously S.L.O.W BASIC posted - help speeding it up appreciated

2022-10-26 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 26, 2022, at 12:27 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > 110 PRINT@B,MID$(H$,A/16+1,1);MID$(H$,AMOD16+1,1);" "; John, I just want to compliment you on an elegant idiom here.

Re: [M100] machine language monitor

2022-10-24 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 24, 2022, at 6:46 PM, runrin wrote: > > hi all! > > i was wondering if anyone had recommendations for a machine language > monitor similar to supermon on commodore 64. The DBG facility in the ROM2/Cleuseau option ROM is a lot like a traditional ML monitor. I haven't played with it m

Re: [M100] zbug on archive.org

2022-10-22 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 22, 2022, at 1:27 PM, runrin wrote: > > i was wondering if it would be okay with joshua if i (or someone else) > uploaded the zbug manual and binary to archive.org so it is easier for others > to find. because it's known as zbug to many people, that doesn't make it easy > to track it

Re: [M100] Keep getting DS ERROR when loading via serial.

2022-10-22 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 21, 2022, at 10:32 PM, r Gi wrote: >  > I am repeatedly getting a DS ERROR most of the time when I try to load a > program. It happens a short time after starting the upload. Any help would be > appreciated Nearly all of the DS ERRORs I have received while reading BASIC programs over

Re: [M100] Planning out some weekend projects.

2022-10-19 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 3:33 PM, Peter Noeth wrote: > " Assembler/Debugger" part number 26-3823. I have been looking for this > software package for a number of years myself, just to make my collection > complete. Hi Peter, If you're just hoping to use the software I have the Tandy editor/asse

Re: [M100] Serial on M100

2022-10-07 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
For chucking text files back and forth I have had relatively OK luck just "cat"ing a file to or from the serial port, with the caveat that XON/XOFF flow control and a low baud rate make it more reliable. This works relatively well for logging in to a getty, too. I haven't spent enough time pok

Re: [M100] Modems and the modern world

2022-10-07 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 7, 2022, at 7:41 AM, Will Senn wrote: > I unpacked the .deb file and after a bit of sorting out dependencies, got it > running on my mac: For future reference, I keep a tarball of this (plus a distribution with bit of stuff to build a Docker image) in my bucket[1]. It's a touch easie

Re: [M100] Modems and the modern world

2022-10-06 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 6, 2022, at 4:55 PM, Will Senn wrote: >  > Awesome. Now, all I gotta do is figure out how to telnet from my m100... I won't spoil too much for your journey of discovery, but let's just say I really like my WiModem 232.

Re: [M100] When 10 GOTO 10 doesn't go to 10

2022-10-06 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
>> All: Does anyone have a Tandy 102 who's willing to try GOTO10.BA? > > My 102 full of precious data is downstairs. I will go abuse it. Trip report: After some fussing around with my Samba server because apparently an iOS update made it impossible to write files over SMB again, I just extracte

Re: [M100] When 10 GOTO 10 doesn't go to 10

2022-10-06 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 6, 2022, at 4:00 PM, B 9 wrote: > > All: Does anyone have a Tandy 102 who's willing to try GOTO10.BA? My 102 full of precious data is downstairs. I will go abuse it.

Re: [M100] is the m100 a trs-80? In walks like a, not is categorized as a

2022-10-06 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 6, 2022, at 9:47 AM, Mike Stein wrote: > > It's quite different from systems like Commodore etc. where BASIC does indeed > supply the main interface and control. Hah, I was just about to comment on some of the Commodore operating environments by way of comparison! The T offers an equ

Re: [M100] is the m100 a trs-80? In walks like a, not is categorized as a

2022-10-06 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 6, 2022, at 9:04 AM, Brian White wrote: >  > I think I've seen BASIC 80 before but couldn't say where so it might be > imagination. BASIC-80 is, as best as I'm aware, the product name of the various Microsoft BASIC implementations for 8080 and Z80. It's documented with that name in

Re: [M100] Programs from books and magazines without typing

2022-10-01 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 1, 2022, at 1:51 PM, Wayne Lorentz wrote: > > Some of you will be adept enough to be able to use OCR software to convert > the pages of the books into text that you can then send to your M100. With the last couple of type-ins I've done, I just took archive.org's existing OCR (plain te

Re: [M100] the battery backup

2022-10-01 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Oct 1, 2022, at 10:20 AM, Will Senn wrote: > >  Given that my new m100 is 39 years old, should I expect that parts need > replacing inside? The generally accepted wisdom seems to be that when doing intake of a "new" 100 to replace the NiCd and all capacitors ASAP. They risks to the life

Re: [M100] is the m100 a trs-80? In walks like a, not is categorized as a

2022-09-29 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Sep 29, 2022, at 8:05 AM, Chris Trainor wrote: > > But still mostly a brand… the basis for the 80 was the Z80 This is how I understand it from reading "Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution" a while back. The "80" reflected the processor in the branding

Re: [M100] assembly language first steps

2022-09-26 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Sep 26, 2022, at 5:13 PM, Will Senn wrote: > I believe there is a basic assembler program in the wild and I've read about > Custom Software's assembler, are either or both available online? Take this with a little bit of salt since I haven't actually used it but it might not be totally out

Re: [M100] transferring files both directions

2022-09-26 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Sep 26, 2022, at 5:24 PM, Will Senn wrote: > find the DB-25, null-modem adapter, and DB-9 to USB adapter That is essentially what I use (although I picked a 9-pin<>USB adapter that was pre-wired null since I have no use cases for a non-nulled connection). USB gadget: https://smile.amazon.c

Re: [M100] Questions about tokenizing BASIC in UNIX

2022-09-26 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Sep 25, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Daryl Tester > wrote: > > I've got a todo item to see how > to enable the dev_dbg() messages I looked, hoping to spare you from rebooting with debug enabled the old fashioned way. If the kernel has DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y [1] then: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63682160

Re: [M100] what's the Right Way to code and assemble on model-t hardware

2022-09-08 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Sep 8, 2022, at 9:10 AM, MikeS wrote: >  > What and where is BYTEIT? I hadn't heard of this, either, but a quick Google turned it up on the club100 programming library. The club100 programming library is at: http://www.club100.org/library/libprg.html It lists BYTEIT as "A really good 80C

Re: [M100] M100 Linux keyboard via inputattach?

2022-09-08 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Sep 8, 2022, at 9:09 AM, MikeS wrote: > Where can I find a good termcaps file? I don't have a file in termcap format but the terminfo I use is in my bucket. It's by far the most comprehensive of those I've come across: http://public.nachomountain.com/files/m100/

Re: [M100] Writing binary files from BASIC

2022-08-18 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Aug 18, 2022, at 11:12 AM, Joshua O'Keefe wrote: > conjecture, but aren't ^@, ^H, and ^Z control characters that affect console > output Apologies for replying to myself; I realize on reflection CHR$(127) is ^? (DEL) rather than ^H (BS) isn't it?

Re: [M100] Writing binary files from BASIC

2022-08-18 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Aug 18, 2022, at 10:17 AM, B 9 wrote: > And you cannot use the 3 Control Characters, NULL (0), Control-Z (26) and > Back Space (127). > > While it doesn't explain everything, like what special meaning CHR$(127) has > in a DO file, I'm away from both my systems and documentation, so this i

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

2022-07-06 Thread 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://bit

Re: [M100] Bump

2022-06-14 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Jun 14, 2022, at 12:28 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > Hope everyone is enjoying their summer :-) It's been a mixed bag for me so far but I've managed some victories on the retrocomputing front. On a long stay away from home I managed to score a fully operational (but not recapped / re-ba

Re: [M100] is the list actually working?

2022-05-03 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On May 3, 2022, at 10:02 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > You say "messages will look a little different from these users." > Can you talk more about that? Are you talking about mail service software or > people reading the list? End users (us!) will see messages from the list with a From: that

Re: [M100] is the list actually working?

2022-05-03 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On May 3, 2022, at 9:30 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > If anyone has a suggestion that I can try in Mailman I'll try it. Hi John, In my own opinion the safest thing to do is to sigh and implement one of mailman's two header munging policies: Option A is: set dmarc_mitigate_action to munge_fr

Re: [M100] is the list actually working?

2022-05-03 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On May 3, 2022, at 8:20 AM, Cedric Amand wrote: > > By implementing DMARC records, you know who's trying to send mail "on your > behalf" and I noticed that in the DMARC reports, this mailing list's server > was one of them. This is true for users who control their domain and can manage mail

Re: [M100] is the list actually working?

2022-05-03 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On May 3, 2022, at 7:09 AM, Cedric Amand wrote: > I did not investigate this much ; but I would look at the DMARC and « from » > problems DMARC is definitely one -- potentially the main -- issue here. If someone with a strict DMARC record submits a message to the list for broadcast, many li

Re: [M100] M100/M102 printing

2022-04-30 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Apr 30, 2022, at 6:50 AM, Cedric Amand wrote: > > 1) A switch between what they call EPSON and IBM mode (no idea what this does > but looks interesting) > If anyone knows about those two modes, please share :) Epson mode will likely set the printer to use Esc-P control codes, and IBM mode

Re: [M100] is it just me , or..

2022-04-26 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Apr 26, 2022, at 7:50 AM, Chris Trainor wrote: > it's super important you flag it as not spam to train Google that it's not > junk. My personal experience over the past 18 years of using Google mail systems is that it's completely untrainable and learns absolutely nothing from end user flag

Re: [M100] is it just me , or..

2022-04-26 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Apr 26, 2022, at 4:39 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > Mail from the mailing list really seems to be out of sync these days. > I'm seeing replies to emails that I have never seen the original post for. This has been a sporadic issue for me that seems to be getting worse. Previously the missing me

Re: [M100] Scripsit 100 (cat. 26-3830)

2022-03-08 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Mar 8, 2022, at 10:07 AM, Joshua O'Keefe wrote: > Scripsit 100 (C. 26-3830) Thanks to everyone who sent files and links. I'm looking forward to playing around with it. If I can get it up and running I'll see if I can't share a REX memory image of the installed

[M100] Scripsit 100 (cat. 26-3830)

2022-03-08 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
Folks, I have something of an affinity for poking around word processors and text formatters across many platforms, plus a fondness for the various forms that Scripsit came in over the years. I've turned up occasional references[1] to Scripsit 100 (C. 26-3830) which was available on tape. I h

Re: [M100] hardware scrolling patch

2022-02-23 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 23, 2022, at 7:17 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > I did a write up on the two patches that are needed. Steve, I remember seeing you mention this a while back and I'm glad you were able to get back to it. Your write-up was clear, informative and interesting. Thanks for sharing it. I wond

Re: [M100] Software Archive

2022-02-13 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 13, 2022, at 11:42 AM, amp1...@gmail.com wrote: > Can you share with me the access information for any good M100 software > archives? Earlier in the thread I provided the below reply which covers the major software archives: When I just want something, the resources I scour, in somew

Re: [M100] Re-sending... Option ROM ID?

2022-02-10 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 9, 2022, at 10:57 PM, Carlos M. Nunez, M.D. wrote: > What does the Polar Engineering ROM do? I tried searching but can’t find > much. It is a software development tool. ROM2 in particular is a tool for assembly development. I've only ever seen it combined with Cleuseau, which is a t

Re: [M100] Re-sending... Option ROM ID?

2022-02-09 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Feb 9, 2022, at 2:48 PM, Carlos M. Nunez, M.D. wrote: > Re-sending without the attached image. It was flagged as too big. >> I don’t know if the email list supports attaching files, but does anyone >> recognize the attached Option ROM, pulled from a T11? >> M100 ROM2 >> Copr 1985 >> v4.8

Re: [M100] Cassette relay 1 Model 100

2022-02-04 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 4, 2022, at 7:10 PM, Rob wrote: > I'm just playing around with the basic software. The question I have, is > there a peek and poke to turn on relay 1. I've spent pretty much no time on cassette functions for personal reasons but as far as I'm aware the high level way to control the cas

Re: [M100] How to delete then re-install VirtualT 1.6

2022-02-04 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
> On Feb 4, 2022, at 10:37 AM, b...@pigford.org wrote: > My laptop is not organized like you suggest. I have tried to move folders to > make it look like your examples but I have not been successful. I'm not much of a Windows person these days but the location of AppData can be determined, if

Re: [M100] Software Archive

2022-02-02 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Feb 2, 2022, at 4:22 PM, Carlos M. Nunez, M.D. wrote: > I have searched around and can't really seem to find a good, comprehensive > software archive for the M100 and related. A single, unified archive has yet to be created for a variety of reasons. I personally prefer not to mix artifacts

Re: [M100] test

2022-01-29 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Jan 29, 2022, at 1:29 PM, Peter Vollan wrote: > well, mComm has stopped working on me. > Sorry but I don't see my posts, just your answers to them Peter, it looks like your messages are getting through to the list just fine as they are being archived here: http://lists.bitchin100.com/priva

Re: [M100] New (again) Model 100 owner

2022-01-29 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Jan 28, 2022, at 11:43 PM, Carlos M. Nunez, M.D. wrote: > 1. Are there any recommended sources for a null modem cable? I would prefer > the PC end to terminate in a USB plug, so I believe it will require a serial > to usb converter somewhere. You may receive a torrent of responses, as for on

Re: [M100] Backpack drive?!?1

2022-01-28 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Jan 28, 2022, at 9:20 AM, ~Art wrote: > Are these still available? Who would I contact? Hi Art! I got mine from: https://www.soigeneris.com/tandy-tpdd-2-backpack-drive Looks like he still has a few on hand, too!

Re: [M100] ROM disassembly updatec

2022-01-14 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Jan 14, 2022, at 3:21 PM, Stefano Bodrato wrote: > I'm proud to announce that I finished copying in the M100 and MSX the > comments found in the sources of mbasic for cp/m . > This makes most of the complex stuff more understandable, just have a look! > Moreover the same source can produce M

[M100] M100 freezes at menu

2022-01-11 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
I somewhat recently acquired an M100 in fairly decent condition, but the battery had not yet been changed and it needed the space bar properly re-mounted. It was in operable condition, booted, and worked. I opened it up to fix up the keycap and quickly dike out the battery to buy myself time t

Re: [M100] The Living M100SIG

2021-12-18 Thread Joshua O'Keefe
On Dec 18, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Brian K. White wrote: > I created an organization account and transferred the repo to that. Now other > accounts may join that organization and share ownership of the repo. Happy to be added to the org if you want someone as a backup contact. I manage GHE orgs at

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