Yay! Congratulations Jonathan, I'm glad my notes were able to help you. There are lots of key combinations in Wordstar that I just have in muscle memory so I hardly remember doing it, but here's a few:
Ctl-E: up one line Ctl-S: left one char Ctl-X: down one line Ctl-D: right one char These all form a diamond on the keyboard that makes it easier to remember. I have a keyboard template that fits on the Kaypro keyboard to remind me of all those. Maybe you can search for Wordstar commands for a cheat sheet? Definitely check out SWEEP for a much better alternative to PIP, and also D for a much nicer directory lister. They're all on the wiki. I used serial transfer as well to copy my initial program over, but I used my NADSbox, which has been absolutely invaluable. :-) Again, well done for getting MVT100 working. Cheers, Bert On 10/26/20 11:14 AM, Jonathan Yuen wrote: > 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/> >
