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> Yes. Remove the rex hooks to use VT100 driver.
> However to remove the VT100 driver is a cold boot.
I've found that if I switch back to SCREEN 0 I can use REXMGR again to switch
memory images or load ROM images. To use the external display again I have to
unload the REX hooks, CLEAR 0,60000, execute VT100.CO, reset the time :), and
then SCREEN 1. (Yet another reason I keep a copy of my SETIME.BA in every
memory image...)
The more painful thing I've found is if I allow the M100 to go into idle
power-off while displaying on the external display. Cycling the power switch
brings back an apparently-dead M100 which won't display on either the LCD or
serial output. In that case, I happened to discover that pressing Shift-Break
brings back the menu, but you need to follow this with rear reset button (which
will just appear to re-load the menu) to get things back in order. If you just
Shift-Break you'll have a menu but it'll lock up again if you go into BASIC or
TEXT. Hitting the rear reset will put it back on SCREEN 0 and you'll just have
to go into BASIC and issue SCREEN 1 again if you want to be back on serial
output.
(This happened to me a couple of times in the midst of TEXT sessions, before I
stumbled across the above recovery procedure, and then vowed to connect an
external power source and use POWER CONT if I'm using the external display
feature.)
> My plan is to sort out how to make REX and VT100 driver coexist, or
> better still integrate.
That would be truly awesome!
I've been playing around with this today - either I forgot you'd made it or I
missed something.
I downloaded TREK.BA as you suggested on the wiki page - fixed up some syntax
errors, and played for a couple of hours tonight with my daughter while we
figured out the navigation and gameplay. She was at the M100 typing the
commands while I made suggestions and perused the source code if we got
stumped. At the end she said it was a bit like I was the captain and she was
at a bridge console (because I'd put the M100 on top of a big cardboard box in
front of the monitor and she was operating it standing up, while I was sitting
beside her in my chair). Fun times!
jim
