Tried that, I go in to TS-DOS and it says disk not ready.

On 30 Aug 2016 10:42 p.m., "Kurt McCullum" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> There isn't much to using the app. Once it's installed on your Android
> device, attach your serial cable and press "Start TPDD Service". Once that
> has started, you should be able to use TS-DOS. Keep in mind that TS-DOS
> needs the DTR and CTS lines wired to work properly. The Android version is
> a bit more forgiving than the PC version as far as a cable goes. If you
> have a working cable for your PC, use it with the Android.
>
> I've tested the app with both a FTDI and an old Prolific USB to serial
> adapter.
>
> Kurt
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 12:40 PM, James Zeun <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>

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