Re: [M100] can somebody help with REX parts shipping?

2017-09-20 Thread Brian Brindle
Jim, Unfortunately I already ordered and received mine. I did however note if you search for AM29F800BB on ebay there are plenty of chips available from various sellers. Also, while I have not tried any of these the Macronix MX29F400CBTI-70G available from Digikey looks to be a compatible match.

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread Jim Anderson
> -Original Message- > > I'd be happy to > take some photos during the construction to add to the cause. Likewise, when I get around to building mine I'll be happy to photograph any in-between stages or steps which seem like they're still missing by that point. (I'll probably want to

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread Jim Anderson
> -Original Message- > > Thank you for spotting that. I have found it and uploaded a copy to the > linked google drive folder. > > Just for the record, it was still there in the form of the reference > links to the original files from Steven's upload folder on club100 and Ah, okay, I

[M100] can somebody help with REX parts shipping?

2017-09-20 Thread Jim Anderson
So... I decided to pull the trigger on building my own set of REX modules, and now I'm a bit stuck at verical's shipping-charges gunpoint... The main thing I was concerned about was that the cost of the boards from OSH Park was not discussed anywhere and not available without making an account,

Re: [M100] TEENY.EXE

2017-09-20 Thread Gregory McGill
you have to tell your dosbox the serial port information: https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Configuration:SerialPort basically your usb port will be like COM5 so you have to set port 1 to realport:COM5 Greg On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Kurt McCullum wrote: > I was afraid

Re: [M100] TEENY.EXE

2017-09-20 Thread Kurt McCullum
I was afraid of that. Well it’s not liking my setup here so I’ll have to pull an old laptop out of mothballs at work tomorrow which has a real serial port and XP on it. That may solve my problem. I’m using DOSbox but neither TEENY or DESKLINK is happy with COM1 being a USB->serial adapter.

Re: [M100] TEENY.EXE

2017-09-20 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Kurt McCullum wrote: > I’ve been trying to get TEENY.EXE to work on my desktop. I’ve got a > USB-serial adapter set to com1 but TEENY is unable to detect a laptop. I’m > having to run TEENY.EXE in a DOS box due to it being a 16bit

Re: [M100] Has anyone connected a Raspberry Pi Zero to the option ROM socket?

2017-09-20 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Douglas Quagliana wrote: > I don't think there's a speed issue. They benchmarked the speed of the > GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi and they were able to toggle the output pins at > 22 Megahertz using an optimized program written in C. See > >

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX and file transfer

2017-09-20 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: "Jim Anderson" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:12 AM Subject: Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX and file transfer >> -Original Message- >> >> Re the old/new M100 issue: the main difference is the

Re: [M100] Has anyone connected a Raspberry Pi Zero to the option ROM socket?

2017-09-20 Thread Stephen Adolph
well the socket is read only. no writes allowed. one might be able to adopt the rex methodology however to enable writes in a read only socket. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Douglas Quagliana wrote: > I don't think there's a speed issue. They benchmarked the speed of

[M100] TEENY.EXE

2017-09-20 Thread Kurt McCullum
I've been trying to get TEENY.EXE to work on my desktop. I've got a USB-serial adapter set to com1 but TEENY is unable to detect a laptop. I'm having to run TEENY.EXE in a DOS box due to it being a 16bit application. Does it require a real serial port? Kurt

Re: [M100] Has anyone connected a Raspberry Pi Zero to the option ROM socket?

2017-09-20 Thread Douglas Quagliana
I don't think there's a speed issue. They benchmarked the speed of the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi and they were able to toggle the output pins at 22 Megahertz using an optimized program written in C. See http://codeandlife.com/2012/07/03/benchmarking-raspberry-pi-gpio-speed/ The Model T's 8085

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread Roger Mullins
Awesome suggestions all around! I'll have to bring them to my programming partner this evening. :-) I'll share the BA file once we're up and running and after I've had a chance to go through and compress it a little. Right now we're pushing 7K. 樂 We're apparently getting paid by the KLOC.

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX and file transfer

2017-09-20 Thread Georg Käter
DOSBOX makes it easy to run the "old" DOS programs i.e. TEENY, DeskLink even on PC with Windows 10 32/64bit. Serial communication even via a USB-serial adapter (I run a Prolific PL-2303) with my T-Models (100, 102, 200) runs well w/o any issues. It´s well documented and configuration is not

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread James Zeun
When I get a chance, going to try following the tutorial and make some if I can. Or perhaps save me buying a programmer, order the chips and send them to whom ever has a programmer. Then I can just deal with putting them together. Will be great to see if we can knock a few PCBs out for the club.

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread Jerry Stoner
Hey all, first time posting here... OSH Park does support castellation: http://docs.oshpark.com/tips+tricks/castellation/ Jerry On 20 September 2017 at 07:22, Brian Brindle wrote: > I just got three boards from OSH Park and have all the parts. The WiKi was > awesome

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread Josh Malone
What about working division backwards: The routine generates the desired *result* and computes the required problem to get that result. Is the answer is: 6 remainder 2 Generate random divisor, say '7'. Computer dividend = 7*6+2 = 44 State problem as: "What's 44 / 7 ?" -Josh On Wed, Sep 20,

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:58 AM Roger Mullins wrote: > Ah. I see where you're headed with that now. I like that. Remainders > aren't verboten, though. :-) But at the same time that could be a neat > feature to incorporate especially on the 'easy' or 'medium' difficulty >

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread John Gardner
As part of the random number generator subroutine, why not print the returned values & ask your student if A/B is a valid operation? On 9/20/17, Roger Mullins wrote: > LOL it happens I guess; I'm close to that many years removed from having to > deal with most of this stuff

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread Roger Mullins
Ah. I see where you're headed with that now. I like that. Remainders aren't verboten, though. :-) But at the same time that could be a neat feature to incorporate especially on the 'easy' or 'medium' difficulty setting. Regardless it's starting to look like the best thing to do might be for

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Another way to say it... take two non zero random integers a, b. Multiply them together to get c. c is divisible by a and b with no remainder or fraction. c is also greater than or equal to a and b. -- John.

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread Roger Mullins
I love it! Don't give me any ideas... I have just enough of a latent sarcastic streak (and she does too) to send her back to school some day spouting trivia about the golden ratio or something. :-D The teacher just wants them to work a few straight-up math problems each evening. 65+43, 87-34,

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread Jason Paul
I'm curious what the teacher means by a 'math fact'. Does she just mean problems like what you're creating because a math fact could be just about anything historical about the evolution of math or a day-to-day usable example of math. Also it would seem like using the least efficient method would

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread Roger Mullins
LOL it happens I guess; I'm close to that many years removed from having to deal with most of this stuff myself. Anyhow, I don't think I described my predicament as clearly as I should have. My focus is less on having the computer do the math (although it has to in order to check the answer

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread John Gardner
Yep, I screwed it up - The Remainder is what's left of the Dividend. Anyway, have fun - My 9-year-old daughter is nearly 40. Good times... On 9/20/17, John Gardner wrote: > Or simply subtract the Divisor from the Dividend until the Dividend > > is less than the Divisor -

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread John Gardner
Or simply subtract the Divisor from the Dividend until the Dividend is less than the Divisor - The index of the loop is the Quotient, & the Remainder is what's left of the Quotient. I hope I did'nt screw that up - 3rd grade was about 60 years ago... :) On 9/20/17, John R. Hogerhuis

Re: [M100] Has anyone connected a Raspberry Pi Zero to the option ROM socket?

2017-09-20 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
A raspberry pi cannot simulate a ROM chip as far as I know. Seems like it would be a speed issue. You could do interface a pi to serial port though, that has been done. -- John

Re: [M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
I guess for division your random numbers are the divisor and the result of the division. Multiply them together to get what you are to divide. -- John.

[M100] BASIC Integer Division Question

2017-09-20 Thread Roger Mullins
Morning all! My daughter (she's 9) and I are working together on a program, partly for fun and partly for the learning experience. Her teacher doesn't assign specific homework, but asks that the students spend ten to twenty minutes per night drilling on 'math facts.' There's no worksheet, and

[M100] Has anyone connected a Raspberry Pi Zero to the option ROM socket?

2017-09-20 Thread Douglas Quagliana
Here some "Thinking before coffee" but... Has anyone connected a Raspberry Pi Zero to the option ROM socket? The Raspberry Pi Zero is one of several flavors of the Raspberry Pi ARM computer. The notable thing about the RPi Zero is that it is extremely flat and measures only 65mm by 30mm (about

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread Brian Brindle
I just got three boards from OSH Park and have all the parts. The WiKi was awesome taking care of the hardest bit of sourcing all the parts. Other than that it doesn't look like too awful of a job. I'd be happy to take some photos during the construction to add to the cause. I have a few ideas on

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread Brian White
Thank you for spotting that. I have found it and uploaded a copy to the linked google drive folder. Just for the record, it was still there in the form of the reference links to the original files from Steven's upload folder on club100 and the rex page on bitchin100. So, the "sources and support

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread Jonathan Yuen
Hi, I was actually going to try this myself but I would contribute 50 USD. Jonathan jonathan.y...@mykopat.slu.se Från: M100 [m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] för Josh Malone [josh.mal...@gmail.com] Skickat: den 19 september 2017 22:48 Till:

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread Jim Anderson
> -Original Message- > > I'm willing to take a stab at building a REX. I think the only tool I'll > [...] > If 1 or 2 persons want to help cover the initial costs of the parts and > tools, I'll build them a REX. Wow, I stop watching my email for a day... :) I would love to get on board

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread Jim Anderson
> -Original Message- > > Steven has published the files and info needed to make them yourself. I > have proven that nothing was missing by doing it and making a few, and > writing up the steps, parts, and tools, and filling in some details into > a more explicit recipe that more people

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX and file transfer

2017-09-20 Thread Brian White
teeny works with most, maybe all tpdd servers. I use it almost exclusively with dlplus myself. the dlplus package actually includes teeny and a teeny-installer. It's actually fairly convenient once you've done it once or twice so you don't actually have to read and think about all the prompts.

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX and file transfer

2017-09-20 Thread Jim Anderson
> -Original Message- > > I put this together this morning. It's a DO file that will create > TSLOAD.CO on a 100/102. The Windows version of mComm or any terminal > program can inject this into the laptop by selecting the file and then > going into BASIC and typing "RUN "COM:98n1e". (19200

Re: [M100] Questions regarding REX

2017-09-20 Thread Mike Stein
I didn't mean specifically for the REX, but a general notice. I've read posts on other forums where people have tried to contact the Club100 site with no joy; they try to order and get no reply so they assume we're dead and go away; better if we directed them here where we could maybe help them