Hello All, My rexcpm and mvt100 kit arrived last week. There were some hiccups getting the software installed on the rexcpm, and I suspect part of the problem was himem issues with the teeny.com that mcomm sends over. After a number of super-helpful emails with Stephen, he suggested a serial transfer, which I used for the rxcini.do file. This worked quite well. I used minicom on a linux machine to send at 300 baud so I could watch it go into telecom with the download feature. After that it was smooth sailing using mcomm on my phone, and I had enough time to get out the soldering iron over the weekend, and with the hints posted by Bert, got the MVT100 kit assembled in a morning, and in the afternoon had a vt100 terminal emulation for CPM 2.2.Even had an ancient flat screen vga monitor and the characters don't look that bad.
I found a copy wordstar I had configured for a vt100 (actually an xterm on an aix machine that was running a z80/cpm emulator written in C) and got that over, and just uploaded supercalc, and each of them has sent with 'pip' its own user space, along with one for classic adventure. I'll have to try and remember what the key combinations are for moving around in wordstar and supercalc, but having this hardware is terrific. I guess one question is whether I should move on to something else than mcomm to emulate the TPDD. I like to group files together in subdirectories, but the import.com in cpm wants to go the the root (ie the TPDD directory on my phone). I've been mass moving files to the TPDD directory when I want to import them, and then moving them back to a subdirectory when I'm done, but I was wondering if one of the other TPDD emulators might allow me to select the directory before starting the emulation. I'd prefer something small like my phone if possible, maybe build something around one of the Raspberry Pi's sitting around? Having this new environment has led me to use the M100 a lot more in the last week. My thanks to Stephen Adolph for making the rexcpm and Philip Avery for porting cpm to the rex environment. Jonathan [email protected] --- När du skickar e-post till SLU så innebär detta att SLU behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur detta går till, klicka här <https://www.slu.se/om-slu/kontakta-slu/personuppgifter/> E-mailing SLU will result in SLU processing your personal data. For more information on how this is done, click here <https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/contact-slu/personal-data/>
