Your project "todo" list is very concise. Reviewing the "Retro-Printer", you will also have to purchase, set up, and learn the Raspberry Pi ecosystem to use it. A humble alternative is to redirect the printout from your model 100 via a null modem cable to an empty file on your personal computer via the serial terminal on that personal computer (or removable memory device). That would require a highly modified "PRINT" or "PRINT USING" command which is beyond my age-addled mind at the moment. Or just print or save to an empty file on model 100 and transfer that separately. Since you would be most concerned with program listings, just saving the listing to a text file and transferring that back to your desktop PC is the cheapest and most expedient solution.
Regards, good luck On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 2:02 PM Peter Vollan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
