Can you clone that tppd-2 disk please? I have a tppd-2 with no disk. The
thing was a doorstop until I found teeny.

Even the mp3 of ts-dos on the club100 member uploads is of limited use,
because it just runs once and then consumes ram but isn't usable after
that. The directions with it don't say how to save it or install it, just
run it directly from the cassette input.
On May 22, 2016 3:12 PM, "Gary Hammond" <ghamm...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Fortunately I do have a working boot/util disk for the TPDD2 and was
> thinking along the same lines.
>
> Was there a boot/util disk for the TPDD? I never got a disk with the
> TPDD’s I have.
>
>
>
> *From: *M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> on behalf of Brian White
> <bw.al...@gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com>
> *Date: *Monday, 23 May 2016 at 5:10 AM
> *To: *Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [M100] New command line tool for TPDD and TPDD2
>
>
>
> Outstanding! This IS great news!
>
> With this maybe at some point we can replicate the util disk that shipped
> with the tpdd but is missing or degraded now, using nothing but a pc and
> the internet (and a real tpdd).
>
> --
> bkw
>
> On May 21, 2016 10:44 PM, "Gary Hammond" <ghamm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> So here’s something different…a tool for talking to a real TPDD from a PC.
> This is the opposite of most of the discussion here on the list.
>
> I have just finished off the first version of a TPDD command line tool I
> have written.
>
> The problem:
>
> The problem I wanted to solve was find an easy way to transfer to a TPDD
> disk, files to and from my PC. It was getting laborious transferring files
> one at a time via telcom or basic over the serial port from the PC, then
> switching over to the TPDD and writing the files back. Even using TSDOS and
> loading up the max amount of programs in the M100’s RAM then transferring
> them as a group via TSDOS is still a time consuming process.
>
> The solution:
>
> I can now connect my TPDD or TPDD2 to my PC, which can be Windows, Linux
> or Mac. I then use the command line tool (TpddTool.py) to perform disk
> based commands using familiar command line syntax. The commands include:
>
> -          cp myfile.do 0:myfile.do
>
> -          cp 1:myprog.ba myprog.ba
>
> -          rm 0:file1.co
>
> -          cat 1:myfile.do
>
> -          mv 0:wrong.do 0:right.do
>
> -          format
>
> -          status
>
> -          dir 1:
>
> and my favourite:
>
> -          cpd filedir 0: (this is used to copy a folder of files to the
> TPDD or copy the bank of a TPDD to a folder all in one go!
>
> The commands also take DOS equivalents i.e., copy, ren, del, type and
> copydir.
>
>
>
> I have tested the software using a TPDD and a TPDD2 with real coms ports
> and USB com port on Wndows 10, CentOS 6 and 7 and Mac OSX (El Capitan). A
> fortuitous side effect of writing a test suite for the API is that I now
> have a great tool for testing a physical TPDD!
>
>
>
> The tool is written in Python and is available with documentation from
> http://trs80stuff.net/tpdd/. The reason for Python was its cross platform
> compatibility, source code that can be easily read and re-used, and that it
> fitted in with some up-skilling I wanted to do for work with respect to
> auto documenting code and the nose test framework.
>
>
>
> Future ideas I have in mind are:
>
> -          Set up and test in on the Raspberry Pi.
>
> -          A GUI for drag and drop functionality.
>
> -          Implementation of the sector based commands so that a true
> disk copy can be performed. It would be a good way to make disk images.
>
> -          Create yet another drive simulator to work in the opposite
> direction. It would be good on a Raspberry Pi.
>
> Please post any feedback to myself directly or via the list.
>
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
>

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