Been working on transferring files over serial to my M100's.
I have 2. My original has 8k, 1 key needs work (I have to have a small rubber band on it to work) and there is a horizontal row that is having issues (I thought it was blank, but now (before???) it does appear to be there, just lighter...). So I was looking on ebay for a parts M100 possibly, and found a 24k M100 in good shape at a great price. So now I have 2.
Anyway, I was working on serial transfers to my M100.
Not having great luck, although I am thinking that might be my cheap USB serial adapter.
I seem to be able to get it to work at 600 baud pretty well.
Also, it seems like after I transfer a file, I have to kill my PC program (either Putty or Teraterm) and restart it to reconnect.
Also, I have taken to adding a single "." as the last line on my BASIC programs. So when it is done transferring (using the LOAD "COM:47N2E" method), I get an error and know it is done.
There is probably a better character to add than that???
While I was troubleshooting, I found a RAM test program on Club100. RAMTST.BA
Ran it, RAM error at 32768.. Uh oh...
Checked that M100, RAM soldered in. OK, no easy swaps to test... Hmmm...
Finally about that time, I found 600 baud and restarting my programs was pretty consistant, so I decided to load a largeish program.
And it worked... Hmmm...
So I get my 8k M100 and load that RAM test program..
RAM error at 32768...
OK, so that RAM test program probably isn't working (or is designed for a 32k fully loaded M100 or ??).
So, q's.
1: Is there a good character to add to the end of my BASIC programs when I transfer them? ("." is working, but if there is a more apropriate one)
2: I take it I need a new USB serial adapter? I probably should be able to do more than 600 baud??? Recommendations?
3: Is there a program to de-tokenize an M100 BASIC program? I have found some BA files that are tokenized, and I am thinking detokenizing them might be the easiest way to transfer them over?
