SETIME.BA? What is that?
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 23:42, Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > 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 >
