Ya, that's what I'm (trying) to do. It's been 30 years since I've had to deal with assembler, so I'm not willing to do that.
But, otherwise, it works. The new project is on: https://github.com/rlauzon/rdos It implements a sort-of-TPDD protocol and the client programs are written in BASIC. But it does work and works quite well so far. I removed the features of the TPDD protocol that I didn't need (like format drive and drive status) and changed others ("previous file" is "change directory" in my project). I allow you to use all 24 characters of the file name field (for naming the file on the disk - you still have to deal with the file name limitation on the M100). It will "boot" the loader program by doing a LOAD "COM:98N1D and pressing a button. Once the loader program is there, you can load the save, list and utility programs. I implemented directory handling, so you can use a nice, big SD card and subdirectories. I've booted up from a hard reset on my T102, loaded up all the programs, and played for a bit. I still need to really kick it around, so it's in alpha test right now. About $85 in hardware (I had the 32 GB SD card, drive activity LED, boot button and 9-25 serial cable laying around). I only needed to solder the headers to the SD Card shield. Everything else was just plug/play. On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:17 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 8:37 AM Mike Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> RAM is always going to be an issue; even if you could write a .BA file >> then the new program and the program writing it would have to be in memory >> simultaneously (although of course a .DO file would be larger). >> >> It would help if we knew how you plan to create the .BA file that you want >> to write; creating a non-trivial .BA file can be pretty tricky. >> >> m > > > > I think he's receiving it from an Arduino tpdd server. > > Ron, you'll at least need to write some ML subroutines to create a tokenized > basic file from received tokenized basic data. > > -- John. -- Ron Lauzon - rlauzon at acm dot org Homepage: http://webpages.charter.net/rlauzon/ Weblog: http://ronsapartment.blogspot.com/ DNRC: Lord of All Things That Are Fattening "To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job." - Ann Coulter Microsoft Free since July 06, 2001 Running Ubuntu 16.04
