Thank you! I typed it in from GitHub. what I found is my Backpack is setup to reply with dd/mm/yyyy.
However, Tandy BASIC appears to want the date in mm/dd/yyyy. The RTC.BA program seems to assume the date will come back in the correct format. Does the Backpack have a way to configure the output format? In the meantime i altered the program and it works fine! Best, George On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 8:30 PM <bir...@soigeneris.com> wrote: > Yes, someone already wrote such a program and shared it. If you just got a > Backpack Drive Plus it is already on the SD card. You can also download it > from: https://github.com/Jeff-Birt/Backpack/tree/main/User_Programs > > > > There is an MT version and NEC version. Note that while these have a .BA > extension they are really text files, a.k.a. .DO files. It has been the > convention to give BASIC programs shared as text files the .BA extension > but if you try to load such a file as is BASIC will try to parse it on the > fly and it can’t do so fast enough. The file extension needs to be changed > to .DO. Load it into RAM, go to BASIC and do: LOAD”FILE.DO”. After it loads > do: SAVE”FILE.BA” and it is now a tokenized BASIC file. > > I’ll get these renamed and include the tokenized version in the future to > avoid such confusion. > > > > Jeff Birt > > > > *From:* M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> *On Behalf Of * > grima...@gmail.com > *Sent:* Saturday, February 25, 2023 7:19 PM > *To:* m...@bitchin100.com > *Subject:* Re: [M100] - Backpack > > > > Random question - Does a BASIC program already exist to interface with the > Backpack to set the clock? > > > > I find myself having to Cold start the machine often, but this handy > Backpack has a real time clock in it. > > > > Would be great to run a quick program that interfaces with the Backpack > over serial, issues the TIME, DATE and DAY commands, queries the current > system time and date, calculates the delta and then resets the system clock. > > > > I started to write the program in BASIC, but I admit I don’t know much > about serial communication. I managed to open the COM buffer for output, > send the four CR to wake it. However, I then PRINT “TIME”+chr$(13) after > that, close the buffer, reopen it for input and then try to get the result. > > > > However I only end up with: > > > > C > > # > > T > > > > As if the second PRINT never went through. > > > > So rather than continue to rack my brain, I figured I’d ask if it already > exists. > > > > -George > > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 4:44 PM Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It might not be that straightforward; the printer port is partially shared > with the keyboard. > > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:58 AM Alex ... <abortretryf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Wire a R2R DAC to the printer port and have the M100 play music Covox > style. 😃 > > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 14:21 Fisher <nolan...@fisher25.ca> wrote: > > All it needs in its next version is an 8mm stereo jack, an mp3 player and > some jukebox software for the laptop! > > Too much to wish for? No matter, it’s already a great piece of kit. :-) > > > > Sean > > > > > > On Feb 14, 2023, at 8:08 PM, <bir...@soigeneris.com> < > bir...@soigeneris.com> wrote: > > > > The Backpack was designed by a friend of mine who wishes to remain > private. He sent me one and I thought it was great and encouraged him to > make more offering my help. My only part of the design was the case. > > > > Jeff Birt > > > > *From:* M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> *On Behalf Of * > grima...@gmail.com > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 14, 2023 1:15 PM > *To:* Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com> > *Subject:* [M100] - Backpack > > > > Just received my Backpack from Soigeneris. All I have to say, is that I > really like the design of it all. It’s relatively compact, it matches the > design of the M100, and it runs on a single AA cell. > > > > I immediately plugged it in, and got it to work. Pretty much zero > configuration needed. I’ve already got REX installed so I was able to load > up TS-DOS and be off to the races. > > > > Shout out to Soigeneris and to whomever designed and built this device! > > > > Best, > > George > > > >
