SETIME.BA? What is that?

On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 23:42, Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Yes.  Remove the rex hooks to use VT100 driver.
> > However to remove the VT100 driver is a cold boot.
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> 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...)
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> 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.
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> (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.)
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> > My plan is to sort out how to make REX and VT100 driver coexist, or
> > better still integrate.
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> That would be truly awesome!
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> I've been playing around with this today - either I forgot you'd made it or I 
> missed something.
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> 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!
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>         jim
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