James,
A couple things to try. First, use the full serial cable just to test the exact same setup that you have working on the PC. If that works, the DB9 to DB25 adapter has the wrong pinout. Second, Do you see any hexadecimal data appear on the mComm screen? If not, this could be caused by a bad cable or an unsupported usb to serial adapter. Do you know the manufacturer of the adapter? Kurt From: M100 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Zeun Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 4:01 PM To: Model 100 Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [M100] Android mcomm Also should point out, I'm using the same USB to serial adapter that I use on my PC with mcomm. Only difference being that I'm using a db9 to db25 adapter on the end. Instead of a full serial blown cable. On 30 Aug 2016 10:42 p.m., "Kurt McCullum" <[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:20 AM, James Zeun <[email protected] <mailto:[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.
