On Apr 27, 2020, at 9:07 PM, Tom Wilson wrote:
> This is worth checking out.
>
> Do you know if it's different than the utility in the Cleuseau ROM? I always
> run that when programming, since it has things like .RENUMBER and a compactor
> (aka "minification.")
My guess is Cleausau is better s
Hi David,
I bought my 102 on eBay as a single non-lot unit (that is, without the
slipcase, manuals, cabling, and other assorted goodies you might get in the
box) for a song (about $100). I then ordered a recap kit, external power
supply, internal NiMH battery, and 8K chip from Arcadeshopper. The
I found what looked like a neat little minification utility on page 92 of
"The Model 100 Companion"[1], 1984 Osborne/McGraw-Hill. I took the OCR
copy of the book from Internet Archive[2], fixed many many OCR errors, and
ran the utility on itself. I made a modest enhancement to support writing
the
It's not my listserv but my suspicion is the archive is member-only for a
reason.
> On Apr 17, 2020, at 6:37 PM, me wrote:
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I only recently joined this listserv. I am a rather, shall we say, old school
> user internet tech. Such as newsgroups. Some cross post listserv mes
Steve, earlier you mentioned offhandedly about making this usable with the BCR
port, but I think there was some context to that which a new member like myself
might have missed. Is there something that needs to be done on the M100 side
to make the BCR usable for the purpose?
> On Apr 16, 2020,
> On Apr 14, 2020, at 7:10 AM, B4 Me100 wrote:
> Model III
Confirming this. I grew up with one (along with my Model I), and I'd spot that
thing anywhere. The 4 had some non-silver details that this one doesn't.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:21 PM John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:36 AM Stephen Adolph
> wrote:
>
>> 1) in an M100, is a genderchanger all that is needed? or do you also
>> need a null modem? any other considerations?
>>
>
> Gender changer and power, that's it.
>
Just pipin
> On Apr 2, 2020, at 11:58 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> Are you saying that LaddieAlpha is exiting when the connection breaks?
>
> It shouldn't do that. My test version doesn't do that.
> Oh... I think I added a feature for Steve at some point, if you send
> LaddieAlpha a newline by itself f
My WiModem232 arrived last night, so I thought I'd provide a bit of a trip
report:
I'm drawing WiModem power from a pocket size USB battery I had lying around
unused. It's a little awkward to splay out on your lap if you're on the
couch, but it works! I did have to scrounge around to find a USB
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 6:02 PM, Josh Malone wrote:
> I think it's a skill every vintage collector should have the opportunity (but
> not obligation) to learn without fear of ridicule or gatekeeping.
30 years ago I was taught soldering in tech school. I'm still ham-fistedly
*dreadful* at it, bu
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 10:13 AM, Ken Pettit wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> Okay, this is good information. Then I need to figure out what is different
> between NEWDOS autobaud and regular TS-DOS autobaud.
To add some further twists to this: if I have DOS-ON and issue a LFILES
command, I get a hang,
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:51 AM Ken Pettit wrote:
> Yeah, I was planning to try it tonight also using NEWDOS on the M100 to
> see if I can replicate the issue Joshua was having.
>
Hi Ken,
I built a little BASIC wrapper to set COM:98n1d (akin to what John used for
WiModem dialiing, but without th
Hi Ken,
Here's what the guts of the deb look like:
$ dpkg -c mComm_1.2_all.deb
drwxrwxr-x kurt/kurt 0 2020-04-01 08:04 ./
drwxrwxr-x kurt/kurt 0 2020-04-01 07:27 ./usr/
drwxrwxr-x kurt/kurt 0 2020-04-01 07:27 ./usr/bin/
-rwxrwxr-x kurt/kurt 142 2020-04-01 07:27 ./us
Thanks, Kurt, I look forward to trying this out tonight. Just curious, what
wound up being behind that EOF issue you were talking about earlier? I love a
good debugging story.
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 8:36 AM, Kurt McCullum wrote:
>
>
> For those interested, I just uploaded an installer for a
> John:
> If you want a debug version of LaddieAlpha I can share one and we can see all
> the I/O serial traffic
Happy to try it with a debug build and produce some logs.
On Mar 31, 2020, at 5:22 PM, Ken Pettit wrote:
>
> So when you say NEWDOS hangs, is this after hitting F4, for instance, to get
> a DISK listing? If the server wasn't responding, then I would expect NEWDOS
> to simply print the "DRIVE NOT READY" error message. Makes me think NEWDOS
> is rec
a feeling it
> helps.
>
> Joshua, are you familiar with Wireshark? you should be able to see packets
> ingressing and egressing from the USB port IP address.
> ..steve
>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:32 PM Joshua O'Keefe
>> wrote:
>> Happy to be a part of that effort in any way I can be of service.
>>
4 PM, Ken Pettit wrote:
>
> Sounds like we (I) need to create a debug version of NEWDOS to figure out
> where it is getting lost or something.
>
> Ken
>
>> On 3/31/20 2:56 PM, Joshua O'Keefe wrote:
>> Great idea! Let me go try that...
>>
>> Doing this cau
t it back into "work once" mode I'll try to see if the causal action
is invoking rexmgr, which is common to all these tries.
> On Mar 31, 2020, at 2:17 PM, Ken Pettit wrote:
>
> Maybe try re-programming NEWDOS to your REX?
>
> Ken
>
>> On 3/31/20 2:03 PM, J
On Mar 31, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Ken Pettit wrote:
>
> Try resetting everything and then running NEWDOS first instead of TS-DOS.
Alas, no joy on this approach either, with either LaddieAlpha or dlplus running
at the other end. Flipping to a vanilla rom (Or one of Kurt's ROMs) after
resetting (w
t not to use
> any delay to see if that makes any difference:
>
> CALL 63012,1,1
>
> Ken
>
> On 3/31/20 1:24 PM, Joshua O'Keefe wrote:
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> In anticipation of my WiModem coming in I've decided to experiment with
>> NEWDOS 5.05
.
Resident commands hang similarly.
> On Mar 31, 2020, at 1:29 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote:
>
>
> Can you describe the wired system? M100 -RS232-??
>
>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:25 PM Joshua O'Keefe
>> wrote:
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> In a
Hi Ken,
In anticipation of my WiModem coming in I've decided to experiment with NEWDOS
5.05 while using my wired connection. I got it to come up on the DISK screen
both with and without a delay, but the next time I went back into TS-DOS all
disk operations would hang. Now I've even gone so fa
Does the NEC have a Label button? That's what you hit on a Tandy to enable or
disable the Fkey line.
> On Mar 30, 2020, at 2:15 PM, D10D3 Data wrote:
>
>
> Hey guys, I thought there was a way to hide the function key listing at the
> bottom of the display in Basic to free up the 8th line, b
> On Mar 28, 2020, at 6:01 PM, Kurt McCullum wrote:
> Gary Weber (Of Web8201.net fame) had me modify the windows version of mComm
> to work with WiModem232.
Kurt, were you planning to bring the TCP functionality forward into your new
(Python, I think you said?) version of mComm? The potential
On Mar 28, 2020, at 4:40 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote:
>
> Give it a whirl!
Steve, you are doing a terrible job dissuading me from trying to score a
WiModem. Of course, I could also hang it off the back of the Amiga, and I
can't reuse the one on the C64 as it's wired for a Commodore User Port
On Mar 28, 2020, at 4:20 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote:
>
> Ken made a version of newdos that had no timeout I believe, and that is what
> used in my experiment.
> Dont know if I could find it again... would have to take a look
How high did you crank the newdos delay value? It looks like it can a
Has anyone tried to wire up one of the TPDD emulators with socat or something
to make it network accessible, and then tried reaching it from a WiModem type
device? Having wireless storage seems like it would be a great boon, but most
of the remnants I see in the Club100 library seem to be about
> On Mar 27, 2020, at 8:15 AM, James Zeun wrote:
> I've never done this before, but I know someone mentioned I could use a
> command to uninstall the rex manager from memory. It's not as simple as KILL
> "rexmgr" is it?
Run RexMgr and then hit F7 (DeIn) to de-install.
Here's a diff for building your tree on modern OSX. It's a pretty small
diff -- just fixing Darwin.mk to use a modern arch (i386 and ppc aren't
buildable any more), and fixing a pointer comparison to an int (which is an
error on clang). The resulting binary runs, although I don't know enough
abou
From an end user standpoint, the documentation needed is pretty simple: pick
the thing you want and press enter on it. Try function keys to see if they do
anything cool. Some of them do.
It was not totally obvious to me until I picked up on the "Enter probably does
what you want to the thing
I used the bootstrapping feature regularly, by bootstrapping TSLOAD (earlier I
used TEENY but TSL fits my usage better) and then keeping DOS100.CO (with the
scrolling fix!) on disk where TSL can get to it. This scheme might work your
new 100 and save you memory since TSLOAD is smaller than DOS1
Does anyone have an extra T102 slip case they'd be willing to part with? I
have one for the 100, but it's a little loose around the apparently smaller
102 model (not to mention impressed with the wrong model number). I use
and carry my 102 around quite a bit on a daily basis, so having the right
This is probably old hat to many list members for whom routine maintenance
is... routine. But for those of us who are new, maybe it will be useful.
I'm happy to report that I had great success on my first internal maintenance
of the Model 102. I set out with two goals: replace the battery with
> On Mar 14, 2020, at 3:53 PM, Tom Wilson wrote:
>
> Thanks. I was not aware of the TS-DOS resident feature. That is enough to do
> what I want it to do. I prefer to keep my BASIC programs in ASCII format
> while on the PC, so as long as I can tokenize on load, that great.
That works just f
> On Mar 14, 2020, at 3:03 PM, Tom Wilson wrote:
> Now for the next step... it looks like BASIC programs encoded as text get
> renamed somewhere in the process as "db" files. So "HELL1.BA" becomes
> "HELLO1.DB" when I view the file through TS-DOS.
It ought to work to leave the resident portion
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 4:14 PM Jim Anderson wrote:
> I'm really unclear on what this gets you vs. just leaving LaddieAlpha
> running in a screen session or whatnot.
>
As a pretty old school UNIX guy myself, it took me quite a long while to
warm up to the benefits of containerization. In the sp
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:07 AM Tom Wilson wrote:
> file transfer software is at the top of my list. Is TS-DOS the best
> option? Are there any really useful modern custom ROMs that add fixes or
> features, like the Y2K century fix?
>
The REX should apply a Y2K fix, even if you don't do the har
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:53 AM Desi Villaescusa wrote:
> Going to do this myself when my batteries show up.
>
I'm going into the M102 this weekend to do a battery swap. I'll gladly
provide a "trip report" on how it goes for me. I'm 30 years out from my
electronics education and not much less
> On Mar 11, 2020, at 5:50 PM, Joshua O'Keefe wrote:
>
> 4. The magic:
Amending this to include my tweak to make sure the LaddieAlpha process runs as
"you" rather than as root or your docker user. I had left it out in my
previous message.
$ docker run -d --name
> On Mar 11, 2020, at 6:15 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
>
> The reason I chose c# is it gives me full portability across windows, osx and
> Linux. And I confirmed it even runs on a raspberry pi. So it's not too heavy.
Me being set in my ways should in no way reflect on your toolchain choices
I finally got around to playing with LaddieAlpha today. I had been putting
it off and sticking to dlplus as the runtime requirement for Mono was a bit
off-putting for a UNIX bigot like myself. But eventually I wanted access
to directories.
I like to leave my TPDD emulator up and running at all t
On Mar 10, 2020, at 8:39 PM, Kurt McCullum wrote:
> TS-DOS and Sardine for UR-II attached
Thanks for this. For those of us with optionless hardware you wouldn't happen
to have the loader handy as well, would you? I think it's called TSLOAD? Ive
been keeping DOS100 itself in RAM and it's kind
> On Mar 10, 2020, at 8:03 PM, Joshua O'Keefe wrote:
>
> Oh wow, thanks for making me aware of this thing. Ultrascreen100 is really
> neat! I'm not quite sure how to turn it back off, though.
Answering my own question: CLEAR 0,60170 will prompt to turn off USC.
Oh wow, thanks for making me aware of this thing. Ultrascreen100 is really
neat! I'm not quite sure how to turn it back off, though.
I'm not sure where Rexmanager loads, but the USC zip seems to have a program
"LOADER.BA" for generating the CO at a different load address. Maybe it would
be p
move it too far or you risk breaking said
> catches.
>
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:38 AM Joshua O'Keefe
>> wrote:
>> So the space bar on my 102 is a little crooked. It works great, but
>> visually looks like maybe one end needs a spring adjusted or repl
So the space bar on my 102 is a little crooked. It works great, but visually
looks like maybe one end needs a spring adjusted or replaced or something. Is
there anything a particularly clumsy, particularly not-mechanically-inclined
person should know before trying to pop the space bar and get
Thanks, everyone! Stephen himself is working on mine, but I am grateful for
the extensive response. What a lovely community!
I'm new to the 100 and am highly interested in getting my hands on a REX in
order to be productive on my machine. It looks like arcadeshopper is sold out,
and club100 is on hiatus. Is there another source, or does someone have one
they'd be willing to part with?
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