Re: [M100] Screen Flickering?

2018-09-29 Thread Fugu ME100
Can you check your –5V rail? It should be a solid –5V +/- a few %.Might also want to check the +5V rail. If the –5V is low or is very unstable then…… It is most likely due bad electrolytic caps. The contrast on the screen is controlled by the –5V. Unfortunately the caps will need to be

[M100] Screen Flickering?

2018-09-29 Thread Roger Mullins
Hi all- Anything in particular I can do to fix a flickering display? It's just started happening. It was doing it on an AC adapter so I unhooked that and put in four fresh AAs, but it kept doing it. I did open it up and checked the movement on the contrast knob and that seemed fine. I'm just

Re: [M100] laser pc4

2018-09-29 Thread Peter Vollan
It has a DB15 connector that you use to plug in the serial transfer cable or the parallel printer cable. It is not much use for writing if I cannot get said writing out of it. I could make a cable, but I can't find anything about the cables or the pinout of the connector. BTW my unit could have a

Re: [M100] program library in WAV format

2018-09-29 Thread Anthony Coghlan
Thanks for setting this up! I’ve downloaded several games and a couple of utilities through my iPhone, with no problem. A simple joy from the user’s perspective, but I realize it represents a lot of work behind the scenes. Perhaps I missed it in a prior part of the thread, but it would be great

[M100] program library in WAV format

2018-09-29 Thread Jesus R
Team, the programs in the Text tab are up. new shorter link to archive:www.sonore.us/m100 Jesus R

[M100] Paladin Measuring System

2018-09-29 Thread Jesus R
I went ahead and returned the Paladin Measuring System so it's longer available. Jesus R

Re: [M100] laser pc4

2018-09-29 Thread John Gardner
Hi Bert - The seeming conundrum of 16-bit addressing of > 64K is accomplished by switching "Banks" of memory - For instance my 8201a has a 32K ROM, & 3 banks of 32K RAM which may be addressed at any one time. Further, there's a system bus connector which allows a plug-in 128K RAM cartridge

Re: [M100] laser pc4

2018-09-29 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 7:02 AM Bert Put wrote: > Is that correct? 2 Meg of ROM but only 32K of RAM? I thought the Z80 > could only address 64K of memory at a time. > > And BTW, in case no one has said it, thank you for helping keep the list > a fun place to be. :-) > Well the 8085 only has 64k

Re: [M100] laser pc4

2018-09-29 Thread Bert Put
Is that correct? 2 Meg of ROM but only 32K of RAM? I thought the Z80 could only address 64K of memory at a time. And BTW, in case no one has said it, thank you for helping keep the list a fun place to be. :-) Cheers,Bert On 09/18/2018 03:13 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > I saw your