I think dlplus looks for YY to offer either loader.ba (teensy installer) or
a login prompt on the host, depending on other parts of the packet after
the YY prefix.

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bkw

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 11:29 AM Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greg,
>
> If you are looking for a mobile storage solution AND you have an Android
> phone, mComm for Android will solve that. But It won't provide a larger
> display when you are at home. Running view80 will provide more characters
> on the screen but not everyone likes the look of it.
>
> Some random thoughts.......
>
> There was talk a while back about pushing all the screen data out of the
> serial port and then having a device display it. The Android TV box is
> definitely a possibility for this. Screen commands could be captured and
> displayed on whatever TV it is connected to. However, knowing next to nil
> about assembler for the model-t, I would not even know where to begin.
> Also, the TPDD protocol would need to be tweaked to add screen commands.
>
> There is plenty of room to add specific commands to the TPDD protocol (I
> have actually added a command to the protocol for a project I use here so
> it definitely works). File commands start with ZZ, sector commands start
> with R. So adding something like SC or TV or whatever prefix followed by
> the screen data could be captured by mComm (Or  whatever TPDD emulator) and
> then displayed. The biggest problem would be co-existing with TS-DOS on the
> model-T. Screen related activity could interfere with files being saved or
> loaded.
>
> Not having much time is what has kept me from putting a ton of effort into
> this idea. The new job has taken up quite a bit of time.
>
> Kurt
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, at 7:39 AM, Greg Swallow wrote:
>
> I've mentioned the PI Zero W on list as a possible base of a DVI
> replacement. Someone mentioned LaddyAlpha or mComm as a way to get it done
> under Linux. In looking into this I found the PI ZeroPhone. This project
> goes through the process of building a cell phone using a PI Zero. It has
> been around for more than a year so I thought maybe someone here might have
> seen or had experience with it. I have also seen some projects using the PI
> Zero W as the base to build a tablet. In either case, the device uses some
> form Linux (Raspbian/Android) so I got to thinking. Could this be an way to
> develop what the M100 might/should have been? A portable device that one
> could use out in the wild then take home and use as a desktop. I can see
> the ZeroPhone as a storage device for the M100 and then plug it in to a
> TV/Monitor and voila a desktop with M100 data already on it.
>
> Thoughts? Rantings? Any input at all.
>
>
> God Bless,
>
> GregS <><
>
>
> ZeroPhone Project:
> https://wiki.zerophone.org/index.php/Main_Page
>
> ZeroPhone on Youtube:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r95nuvcePDc
>
> Zero Tablet:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdALhPD14Yg
>
> Raspbian Project:
> https://www.raspbian.org/
>
>
>

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