Hi Brian, Yep that is the same type of PG Designs ROM Expansion unit that I have for the NEC, albeit the NEC version has regular sockets for all 8 slots of course.
The whole selection mechanism for which ROM you're using has to be done through a software-based selector. For the NEC I have some custom software that was written ages ago. But once I select the Sardine rom #1 (which is in socket 5), I end up in a special version of T-Word, completely separate from the UR-2. (I don't even have a UR-2 ROM installed in mine.) There's a file in the M100SIG library 08 that might yield some results for you: https://web8201.net/files/LIBRARY_web8201/M100SIG/Lib-08-Tech-Programming/ROMSW1.TXT Hoping you can type in the "ROM.BA" represented there and select ROM #5 and the same will happen for you. Interestingly enough once that first Sardine is loading, it will load in a "ROMPAK" loader from the Sardine ROM which is yet another ROM selector program. It's kind of putting the cart before the horse though as to even get ROMPAK in memory you have to already have the means of selecting the correct ROM to begin with. ;-) Gary On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:17 AM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/2/21 5:39 AM, Gary Weber wrote: > > Sorry I never read and responded to the inquiry and also sorry to > > perform a necro-rez on this thread. > > > > I'm willing to bet those ROM images for Sardine that you have, Brian, > > are the same (or very similar) to the ones available for the Booster Pak > > that are posted up on http://www.club100.org/library/librom.html > > <http://www.club100.org/library/librom.html>: > > image.png > > > > Anyway, if you "invoke" the #1 ROM you'll be in the T-Word word > > processing application, and a normal GRPH-F that you would press when in > > the editor to invoke a disk-based spell check will instead reference the > > dictionary represented across all the ROMs. > > > > If you do (or did) extract those ROMs from inside your PG Designs > > expansion unit I'll be interested in comparing them to the ones up on > > Club 100. > > > > Gary. > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 1:22 AM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com > > <mailto:b.kenyo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 10/29/20 3:15 AM, Jim Anderson wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> I have here a PG Design ROM expansion that fits T102. > > >> > > >> The unit has 4 molex sockets with the 100/200 pinout to take > > standard > > >> option roms, and 4 regular dip sockets with apparently regular > > 27C256 > > >> pinout. > > >> > > >> All 4 regular sockets are filled with this Sardine Plus, which > > look like > > > > > > I'm a bit behind on this, but I don't see any messages to this > > effect - did you get this going? Ever since I heard of this all-ROM > > version of Sardine, I have thought about how awesome it would be if > > it were somehow possible to modify the UR-2 that's meant to work > > with this module to somehow access these four ROM images in a REX... > > so you'd have the full dictionary available without having a TPDD > > device connected. > > > > > > I haven't played with it. But I'll pull the roms and post them. > > > > -- > > bkw > > > > I have dumped those Sardine Plus roms. > > Pics: > https://photos.app.goo.gl/5y9FpfrhPKrqkPXRA > > Roms: > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UPCuC6I5oZGnzpV6qTcDnvxOs9B6zq26 > > > I haven't figured out how to activate this rom expansion at all. > > Like I said in the original post, "CALL 63012" or "CALL 62013,1" doesn't > do anything. It just says "OK" but there's no new menu entries. > > But if I take the UR2 rom out of the expander and put it directly into > the 102, that works normally. > > The lot came with a Traveling Software box and manuals for UR2 and all > the apps in the UR2, and a manual for Sardine. None of the manuals says > anything about this expansion. The box just has a sticker that says > tandy 100 and version 2.06 and a serial number and a RS catalog number > (90-0409). > > The Sardine manual does mention a ROM version of Sardine, but, it's not > this. It's talking about the normal option rom for the app with the > dictionary on disk. > > So from all that, I'm guessing that the UR2 rom is a standard one, not > special somehow to use the expander, and the expander probably requires > software to drive it which I don't have. > > The UR2 rom is different from the one on club100/bitchin100, but only by > being version 2.06 instead of 2.12. > > -- > bkw >
