John, as the title of my email suggests. was asking about Kurt's Mcomm android app.
On 30 Aug 2016 7:52 p.m., "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:20 AM, James Zeun <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey guys >> >> Might sound silly, but could someone walk me through using this app. I've >> got the TS-dos rom installed via Rex. But it says disk isn't ready, when I >> try to access disk drive. >> > There's no virtual TPDD drive in CloudT. > > You can launch TS-DOS but at this point pretty much TS-DOS is only useful > for RAM file management since it's not connected to any kind of disk drive. > So you can use TS-DOS to rename and kill RAM files. > > I may eventually add a TPDD emulation that will back to Google Drive > and/or browser local storage. > > In the meantime, the way to get your files into and out of CloudT is the > "fake cassette" > > So if you're in TEXT and want to save a text file, just save it to > cassette. > > Hit LABEL to see your options > Hit F3 which means "Save" > Type CAS:FNAME > where FNAME is the filename you want to Save-As > > Scroll CloudT to bottom of screen, you should see your cassette file pop > up there. > From the list you can download to local which should let you "share" the > file with Google drive (assuming you have that App installed). > Alternatively, if you are logged into Google Drive (there's a button right > under the main window for that), once your file pops up in the fake > cassette list, you can click the cloud upload button and that will save > directly to your Google Drive. > > > If you're in BASIC and you want to save a file, you type > > CSAVE "FNAME" > where FNAME is the name you want to save the BA file as. > > To load files into CloudT, you have a few options: > > a) Add URL > If you are adding a file from Club100's file archive, it should work. > b) Add Plain Text > If you paste text into the Add Plain Text window and click the button it > should appear in your cassette files. > c) Choose File > This should let you pick a file from your local machine. On Android, I > think it should let you pick from Google Drive by launching the Google > Drive app. Not sure about that. It's system dependent > (Android/iOS/OSX/Windows/Linux) what Choose File does. > d) Use Google Drive file picker to stage a file. This will pop up the > Google Drive web interface from which you can select a file. > > Whichever method you choose, the file if successfully processed will > appear at the bottom of the page (at present, at least, you will need to > scroll down to view the list). > > Once it is in the list, you can use CLOAD to load the file into the Model > 100 file system just as if the file were on cassette. The file at the top > of the list will be the next one to load when you type CLOAD. > > Most applications can pull files from cassette. If you're not typing > CSAVE/CLOAD from the prompt you generally need to prefix the filename with > CAS: > > > Let me know if any of that doesn't make sense. Probably the next big thing > I'll do on CloudT is to add HTML5 / Angular Material fanciness. And then, > documentation. At this point the UI is rough, undocumented but functional. > > -- John. >
