It's very common to use a TPDD (Tandy portable disk drive) client likeTS-DOS or TEENY in concert with a TPDD emulation server like laddiealpha or mcomm to transfer binary files.
Of course first you have to get a client into the system. Tsdos is typically run from an option ROM. Teeny can be loaded via TEENY.EXE or a ascii formatted BASIC loader. I think mcomm can bootstrap in a RAM version of Tsdos. -- John. On Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 6:21 PM Wayne Lorentz <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently broke out my old AP-issued Model 100 and have been tinkering > with it. > > I have it hooked up to my computer via a null modem and am able to > transfer BASIC files to it. But I'm stumped about how to move a binary > file. > > In my old BBSing days, you just used a file transfer program, like the > various XModem programs available for the 100. But the one program that I > can get to work (XMODEM.BA 9216 (02-07-90)), only saves .DO files. > Trying .CO files ends up with an immediate Transfer Aborted message, or > something similar. > > So, how does one move a binary to a Model 100 over a null modem? > > The reason I ask is that I'd like to play the lpm game in the Club 100 > library. The library notes that its files are not ASCII. The .BA appears > to be tokenized BASIC, and the two support files are .CO's. > > Which brings up another question: How does one get the lpm game onto a > Model 100. The machine reports 29,382 bytes free on boot-up. Once the > XModem program is loaded in, it's just 17K. But lpm is 20K. What sorcery > is this? > > >
