> -----Original Message-----
> The NC100 has BBC BASIC under the hood. You have to dig to find it. It's
> a quintessential Z80 computer, turned Wordprocessor. It has a few
> communication options but no DOS functionality.
That's probably a non-starter, then. The WP-2 was designed to work with the
TPDD, although it has a more 'normal' male 9-pin serial port (I wonder if Radio
Shack sold a female-to-female 9-to-25 pin adapter for people to use the TPDD
with the WP-2?).
The file management menu has sort of tabs along the top of the screen where you
can select to look at files in the internal ram, the optional ramdisk, a memory
card, the disk drive (TPDD), or a cassette tape. Without that built-in support
for the disk drive, you wouldn't be able to use it with mComm or any other TPDD
emulator without coding up a variant of Teeny or TS-DOS or some such for that
machine...
If it turns out they really are the same, and there's BBC Basic under the hood
of my WP-2, I would *love* to know how to access it. From a quick image search
on NC100 I don't think they are the same at all (aside from having the same LCD
and a Z80 CPU, I guess).
I know somebody did embark upon a project to run Zork on his WP-2, and
apparently succeeded, although there is not enough information shared on that
project to reproduce it AFAIK.
jim
