Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-12 Thread VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN
7;'(_/._)--'(_\_) Jan Vanden Bossche @ work From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Mike Stein Sent: woensdag 11 mei 2016 21:10 To: Model 100 Discussion Subject: Re: [M100] Legacy How often we forget that not everyone knows the things we take for granted...

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread Willard Goosey
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:18:05PM -0700, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > That's not Minicom's fault, flow control is handled in Linux kernel. And I can't deny that's where it SHOULD be. > > It just doesn't work with the M100 and it's small serial queue. That's > why I implemented HTERM with its hardw

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread Willard Goosey
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 03:10:25PM -0400, Mike Stein wrote: > I suspect that this is the way everyone loaded programs back in 'the > old days' which is probably why the text-mode .BA files were normal > and didn't cause problems; kinda slow though, and you definitely > want proper handshaking...

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Willard Goosey wrote: > This of course does leave you at the mercy of whoever did the soft > flow control code for your terminal program. I've always used Procomm > under msdos and never had much trouble (that I can remember > anyway *). But my 386 blew its hard

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread Willard Goosey
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:12:32AM -0700, Gary Weber wrote: > Yes, you can do things like this from the BASIC prompt: > > Load "COM:98N1E" > > Then just initiate an ASCII upload of a non-tokenized .BA file (plain text) > from the desktop PC that you're connected via null modem, and voila, you >

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread Mike Stein
ely want proper handshaking... m - Original Message - From: Shaun M. Wheeler To: Model 100 Discussion Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [M100] Legacy Holy crap, I didn't know you could do that! That would have saved me a lot of time and effort back

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread Willard Goosey
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 03:36:34PM -0700, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > Legacy takes 15 minutes or something to generate the maze. When it decides > to crap out it is... unfortunate. Humm yeah I didn't really play it very long, level generation took up most of the time I'd allocated to M100 yesterd

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Shaun M. Wheeler wrote: > Holy crap, I didn't know you could do that! > > That would have saved me a lot of time and effort back in the day (before I > bought my NADSBox). > > -Shaun > Yeah with TS-DOS you would tokenize as you load with LOAD"0:LEGACY.DO" . -- Jo

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread Shaun M. Wheeler
Holy crap, I didn't know you could do that! That would have saved me a lot of time and effort back in the day (before I bought my NADSBox). -Shaun On May 11, 2016 2:51 AM, "John R. Hogerhuis" wrote: > > > On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Gary Weber wrote: > >> > "download directly into basic"? >> >

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Gary Weber wrote: > > "download directly into basic"? > > Yes, you can do things like this from the BASIC prompt: > > Load "COM:98N1E" > > Then just initiate an ASCII upload of a non-tokenized .BA file (plain > text) from the desktop PC that you're connected via null m

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread Gary Weber
> To anyone who has to load ROG the old-fashioned way, i apologize. > > > > But LEGACY does seem to work. > > > > Willard > > > > Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device > > Original message > > From: "John R. Hogerhuis"

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-11 Thread Peter Vollan
; > Willard > > Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device > Original message > From: "John R. Hogerhuis" > Date: 5/10/2016 12:54 AM (GMT-07:00) > To: Model 100 Discussion > Subject: [M100] Legacy > > Anyone get the game "LEGACY" to run

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-10 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tuesday, May 10, 2016, Willard Goosey wrote: > Wow I'd forgotten what a PITA it is to have to download directly into > BASIC. To anyone who has to load ROG the old-fashioned way, i apologize. > > But LEGACY does seem to work. > > Willard > > > I was having a problem with line 163. I noticed th

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-10 Thread Willard Goosey
Date: 5/10/2016 12:54 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Model 100 Discussion Subject: [M100] Legacy Anyone get the game "LEGACY" to run without crashing? Haven't tried debugging it yet... ftp://ftp.whtech.com/club100/gam/legacy.ba LEGACY.BA 21207 (11-19-87)Graphics three-dimensional arcade type adventure game. -- John.

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-10 Thread Ken Pettit
On 5/10/16 8:13 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Ken Pettit > wrote: Seems to work for me. At what point does it crash? Ken Hmm... I had tried it yesterday in VT and it crashed, but today it's working and I can't get it t

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-10 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Ken Pettit wrote: > Seems to work for me. At what point does it crash? > > Ken > > Hmm... I had tried it yesterday in VT and it crashed, but today it's working and I can't get it to fail again. -- John.

Re: [M100] Legacy

2016-05-10 Thread Ken Pettit
Seems to work for me. At what point does it crash? Ken On 5/9/16 11:54 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Anyone get the game "LEGACY" to run without crashing? Haven't tried debugging it yet... ftp://ftp.whtech.com/club100/gam/legacy.ba LEGACY.BA 21207

[M100] Legacy

2016-05-09 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Anyone get the game "LEGACY" to run without crashing? Haven't tried debugging it yet... ftp://ftp.whtech.com/club100/gam/legacy.ba LEGACY.BA 21207 (11-19-87)Graphics three-dimensional arcade type adventure game. -- John.