36 dollars just for that?! For god's sake, you should have asked us first, there's lots of other places.
On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 at 17:03, Will Senn <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm loving my m100. It's an endless source of fascination - very old > school, but amazingly well preserved and usable. I haven't done much with > it beyond learning about how to connect it to my Mac via serial - which > works flawlessly in both directions with TEENY.CO and dl, yay, running > stuff from club100 on it - go Starblaze :), and refreshing on BASIC sans > renum and tron/troff! Mostly, I've been reading everything in sight > (virtually speaking) and preparing to dive into its software guts more > seriously - quickly moving into 8085 territory. > > BTW, I did get my BASIC banner program written and working as I remember > it did in the 1984 timeframe based on the bitmaps in ROM (basically just > asks for a string, get's each character of the string's character map, asks > the user for a character to print and one to not print, pixel on char and > pixel off char, asks for a multiplier, then prints to screen with the > multiplier applied in both rows and columns, nothing fancy) - thanks for > pointing me to the ROM address of the characters set. But other than that, > It's all been reading and planning... which brings me to the weekend > projects I have mapped out for the next bit of time: > > 1. Get a REXCPM (ordered up) installed and running doing whatever it is > that it does :). > 2. Get a Retro Printer and Centronix-Parallel printer cable ordered > (saving up), installed, and running. Hopefully, it's like having an Epson > MX-80 without the noise, greenbar and ribbon fuss. I do still want to print > out pages and pages of dot matrix listings, but to my laser printer! > 3. Make a new Cassette Cable for my Califone AVR tape recorder which has > MIC, not LINE. Got a plan, need cables - sheesh, amazon is expensive for 5 > pin DIN male aluminum solderable, 2.5mm TS mono, 3.5 mm TS mono, 1/4 inch > mono cable, and 570M ohm resistor ($36 USD). but I want to try the DIY > route and I don't know where else to look for this kinda stuff... Yeah, I > know cassettes are so 70's, but hey I wanna see it work in 2022 and compare > the experience with my PAL-1 (KIM-1) cassette stuff - which was dismal - > very, very unreliable and fickle. I'm hoping to learn a bit, play a bit, > and have it actually work more often than not. > 4. Write a disassembler or maybe even a monitor for the M100 based on what > I've read about (Jake Commander's article) and experienced KIM-1, Apple > ii-e, Commodore, etc. Surely, I don't have to live in BASIC? > 5. Disassemble the M100 ROM - I know it's been done before, but surely I > can do it too, right? > > That's what I have planned anyway, as it proceeds, I'm sure I'll get > distracted with shiny objects and other interests, but hey, better to have > a plan than not! This weekend, I have to update a couple of Research Unix > howtos (v6 and v7), so I doubt I'll get much m100 stuff, but I just might > :). > > Here are a few questions related to the plan - please feel free to answer > them or to make comments or suggestions related to the plan! > > q1. Will the retroprinter let me print reams of dot matrix pages to laser > printer or do I have to go to PDF and then print the PDF? > q2. Is there a monitor for the M100 available? > q3. Does anybody know of any available commercial assembler that runs on > the M100 (I know about cross assemblers, but that's not what I'm looking > for here and I know about cmzasm.ba, and byteit.ba, I'm looking for > something commercial - say the Tandy Assembler or the Custom Software > Assembler) > > Thanks! > > Will >
