The official Radio Shack assembler program for the M100 was " Assembler/Debugger" part number 26-3823. I have been looking for this software package for a number of years myself, just to make my collection complete. The assembler in the Cleuseau 2 ROM (usable with the REX) is what I have used so far, but I would like the experience and documentation that came with the Tandy package.
Is tractor feed greenbar paper even available anymore? Regards, Peter ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:03:36 -0500 > From: Will Senn <[email protected]> > To: Model 100 Discussion <[email protected]> > Subject: [M100] Planning out some weekend projects. > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > 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 > >
