Johnatahn, Ebay is another good source, not sure exactly what you have to go through these days in Sweden to get things. If it's the level converter you are having issues with let me know. They are super tiny and I think I paid $20 for 50 of them. You could get a Christmas Card with TTL to RS232 joy.
On the CP/M emulation front - I've been using the z88dk https://z88dk.org/site/ for most of my stuff lately. Seems to play very nicely with everything I'm doing and contains some cross compiling environments specifically for Tandy and other retros I use. The disk utils work great with the D88 image files I'm using on the Epson. I'll take a look at the one you suggested though, looks interesting. Thanks! Brian On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 4:06 AM [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Thanks for the details. Looks like the level shifter board is the key to > the size, but I'll confess I never thought of mounting a DB 25 directly on > the case of the pi (purchased or otherwise). I looked around and those > boards are available, just need to decide for the best way to purchase one > (I'm in the Sweden so orders from outside the EU get hit with import duty > AND a handling charge). > > I've used Pareg Patel's z80 instruction set emulator for emulating CPM > under Unix and I've run it on several environments with no hiccups (AIX, > Digital, and Linux of course). > > Jonathan > > ----Original Message---- > From : [email protected] > Date : 2023-12-13 - 22:34 (CEST) > To : [email protected] > Subject : Re: [M100] 19.2Kbps on the Tandy 102 > > Haha - Glad you like it Joshua if I do happen to make more or improve on > this one I'll let you know. I don't exactly have ADD but what I do seem to > have is the inability to control what my current interests are and recently > it's been playing with CP/M on the M100, PX-8 and building up a CP/M > emulation environment on the TanPi. That was going great till I managed to > get my hands on one of the MiniNDPs Brian K White made and now I'm all > about his recent 512K upgrade. Never thought I'd get to play with an NDP so > this is exciting stuff. > > I have a WP-2 and have tried to use the TanPi on it, but usually ended up > frustrated with the lack of needed keys. When doing unixy stuff having > pipes, curly braces, back ticks etc are handy. The M100 seems to have > everything I need, although you do have to know to hit shift GRPH - to do a > pipe and GRPH ( for { etc. > > I like ROM-View 80 but for me it's not enough of a payoff to have to > reconfigure the local terminal settings to accommodate the new layout. The > way I use the TanPi is primarily for content creation and syncing. I will > write documents either with a real editor or just by typing cat > file.txt > and typing away with CTRL-C to stop. Then sync the files with my local > storage or the cloud when I have WiFi. If I need to do something really > heavy I'll use an external screen or my VNC session with my phone. > > A lot of times when I'm at home I will ssh into my TanPi from my desktop > and can drag/drop files over SSH, use the real keyboard and monitor for > stuff and it's quite handy. > > It's a fun toy. > > Brian > > > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 1:29 PM Joshua O'Keefe < [email protected]> > wrote: > >> > On Dec 13, 2023, at 6:22 AM, Brian Brindle < [email protected]> >> wrote: >> > My whole setup is a total kludge / hack that I never expected to use >> long term. I was just doing a POC and built the whole thing in about 10 >> minutes with stuff I had laying around but here we are almost five years >> later... >> >> Brian, you may consider this rig a kludge, but I'm jealous and think it's >> gorgeous. Using the T as a portable terminal with a perfectly capable tiny >> Linux box cleverly attached is a great hack. I wish I had one of these! A >> 9-pin WP-2 version—what with the 80-column display—would be amazing. >> >> Now that I think about it, have you tried using either one of the >> 80-column software setups, like ROM-View 80 or Ultrascreen100? It might >> make for an even more pleasant terminal experience. >> >> Gosh, I'm tempted to ask if you'd slap another one together in your >> copious free time! > > > >
