Has anyone actually gotten PG Designs menu.ba to actually work? I have a PG Designs 224k ram expansion and so far nothing I have found on line has worked at all.
The various small basic utils that claim to switch banks, don't do so on this device. But they don't claim to, they claim to work on booster pack and pgcs etc. I found this which claims to be for PG Designs ... all versions. http://tmne.com/downloads.html ...which includes menu.ba and a text file warning that TPDD and TPDD-2 floppy are incompatible with it, so you can patch the installed floppy with some supplied pokes, which I tried, before trying to transfer menu.ba. I also tried getting menu.ba onto the m100 via teeny/dlplus instead of floppy. Either way, one problem is I can't save the file as menu.ba, in the first place, only as some other name like pgmenu.ba. Next problem is when I run it, the first 3 lines run, but then line 4 gives an FC error and the rest of the program proceeds but it's all broken at that point. I tried LOADing pgmenu.ba in basic, saving as pgmenu.do, transferring back to the pc via teeny/dlplus, editing the couple instances of "menu" to "pgmnu" that were part of save/load commands. transferring back, loading... dodn't work. load "pgmenu.do" loaded most of it but gave a ds error. I tried using cu on linux to send the file directly on the com port with basic RUN"COM:98N1E and cu cu --parity=none --line /dev/ttyUSB1 --speed 19200 on linux, "~> PGMENU.BA" nothing, something wrong with flow control or line ending detection or something. Even though the same exact parameters work fine in telcom. Slower baud all the way to 300 doesn't work any better. I did try setting binary mode in cu, but didn't try disabling escape char ("~" after newline). The only suspicious thing I can think of is, the little bit of docs I can find, and the program itself seems to think it can save a file named menu or menu.ba, and that always fails. Elsewhere in menu.ba I think it checks to see if menu.ba exists, which also fails but reinforces that it expects such a thing. My system rom is the T102 rom from the REX page on bitchin100. According to that page, that T102 rom has been modified 2 ways: * patched for y2k, * the word MENU has been changed to Menu in one place somewhere, as a trick for the rex to recognize it without doing any functional harm. Could this actually be something that change breaks? Are there a pristine M100 and T102 rom images somewhere? All of my machines have plcc adapters soldered in for the main rom now, so I can't just pop the original rom back in to test against a reference. This is a poster child example of a reason to try to develop a rom replacement that uses the original dip28 socket.
