If you are going to play a lot with CP/M on the M100, the MVT100 device is a
good thing to have, since a LOT of the CP/M programs want a bigger display.
With the MVT100, you can get 80x24 characters after you connect a VGA device.
I have used a VGA to HDMI converter and actually can use an android tablet (or
even my phone) as a display. You can run Wordstar under CP/M on the M100.
CP/M adventure got a bit messed up on the M100 screen but on the MVT100 it was
just fine.
The device also can take a keyboard and then it runs more or less like a real
VT100 but I don't think the gold key etc. are mapped......
Jonathan
----Original Message----
>From : [email protected]
Date : 2024-03-19 - 01:07 (CEST)
To : [email protected]
Subject : [M100] mvt100 and the pc terminal
I'm a little confused about the MVT100...
on this page:
https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=MVT100_Desktop_Application
It sounds like it's a terminal emulator for connecting to the M100 over
serial. But somewhere else I saw it as some kind of adapter to talk to VGA. I'm
guessing it's both - adapter gadget provides the VGA out thing and provides a
server for the pc terminal app? I downloaded the software and it runs fine on
linux under wine (to the degree that it appears to start up and not crash. I
couldn't figure out how to get it to talk to my m100... so I'm guessing I need
the hardware gadget in addition to my rexcpm to get it working?
Thanks,
Will
