Nope no rex. I was just using that image because it was handy and I assumed the rex-specific change was pure cosmetic without a rex.
I did have a URII in there but I can pluck that out and try again. If the fc error is normal and the menu becomes invisible, then I guess I do need more docs on how to use it. Thanks much. -- bkw On Jun 1, 2016 9:41 AM, "Stephen Adolph" <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you by chance trying to use menu.ba with REX? REX manager conflicts > with menu.ba as menu.ba is lowmem software, as is Rex manager. > > ..steve > > > On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, I can get menu.ba to work. > > > > It is a tricky installation. The install program -yes it is normal to > see the fc error. It self modifies and self installs, and becomes invisible. > > > > No issue with the modified rom that I know of. I suspect you just need > to be walked through the install. > > I have pg designs docs, and I believe I scanned them. Should be > somewhere.... > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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.
