Re: [M100] On-device file conversion?

On 5/11/24 3:38 PM, Bert Put wrote: All text that I write on the M-100 or M-102 will be transferred to the "main machine" -- a linux desktop or laptop that I do all post-processing on.  I used a NADSBox for that file transfer, but there are lots of M-100->PC solutions out there. Funny I

[M100] LizardHill maintenance

All, Lizard Hill sent me a message that they have emergency maintenance tonight at 7:30 PM Pacific time.  Club100 services may be out for an hour or so. Ken

Re: [M100] VirtualT mainline source code

Hey Gang, It has been quite a while since I have made any updates / releases to VirtualT.  I have some local changes where I was implementing a "Dark Theme" to make all of the dialog boxes a black background with light letters.  This was an effort I believed I needed because I was unable to

Re: [M100] Using CP/M for assembly work

On 3/16/24 5:46 PM, Brian K. White wrote: Thanks, and don't worry about it. It is simple enough for me to just hook up a 100 and save a file, and then I'll know everything. "Everything"!  Wow, that's an impressive M100 you've got there!  ;-)

Re: [M100] Is there a superoptimizer for the Intel 8085 (or maybe the Z80)?

LOL! On 3/15/24 5:01 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: I think it is called "Ken"  ;) On Friday, March 15, 2024, Douglas Quagliana wrote: Does anyone know if there is a superoptimizer for the Intel 8085 (or maybe for the Z80)? A superoptimizer in this context is a program that takes as

Re: [M100] m100

s excellent! But it is not xmas anymore. >> On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 at 15:26, Kenneth Pettit > <mailto:petti...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>__ >>Did you ever check out my WCCARD.BA <http://WCCARD.BA> (Tokenized >>White Christmas Card) in the Media directory of

Re: [M100] m100

:-D And thanks!Sent from my iPhoneOn Mar 3, 2024, at 6:08 PM, Peter Vollan wrote:Yes, it is excellent! But it is not xmas anymore. On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 at 15:26, Kenneth Pettit <petti...@gmail.com> wrote: Did you ever check out my WCCARD.BA (Tokenized White Christma

Re: [M100] m100

Avatar-2centsStamp-c Sent from the Cyber7 *From:* M100 *On Behalf Of *Kenneth Pettit *Sent:* Sunday, March 3, 2024 3:24 PM *To:* m100@lists.bitchin100.com *Subject:* Re: [M100] m100 Did you ever check out my WCCARD.BA (Tokenized White Christmas Card) in the Media directory of my Personal Libraries

Re: [M100] m100

Did you ever check out my WCCARD.BA (Tokenized White Christmas Card) in the Media directory of my Personal Libraries at Club100? Ken On 3/3/24 2:38 PM, Peter Vollan wrote: Can you recommend any "eye candy" programs for the model 100? I am familiar with KSCOPE and WAVES.

Re: [M100] dice

On the Model 100 you can do this: 10 DEFINTR,S:R=-1745:S=-902:POKES,PEEK(R):POKES+1,PEEK(R+1) Theory: After defining R and S as INT type variables, the values of each will be:   R = -1745 = 64436 - 1745 = 63791 = F92Fh   S = -902   = 65536 - 902 = 64634  = FC7Ah R points to a memory location

Re: [M100] Text Sweeper 2.7.3

On 11/25/23 8:12 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Lol take a breath, he was joking around :-) Windows is safe for a while Yep, just joking around (thus the smiley face). While it has been 15+ years that I have been in the Linux world (you can't do ASIC design on Windows, only Linux, at least

Re: [M100] Text Sweeper 2.7.3

Oh wow!  Do people actually still use Windows?  :-) I think I have a Windows 10 VM on my Mac somewhere (from a few years ago when I was forced to create a Windows API library at work for a customer).  I've never tried to run VirtualT on it.  I suspect it (the Windows VM) would still boot,

Re: [M100] 10.4" LCD with the Model 100

On 11/9/23 10:30 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: As to graphics... that's a horse of a different color. There are text block graphics codes. For pixel graphics... you may be able to subclass the PSET/ LINE commands but I don't know. Maybe someone working on the MVT100 thingy can speak to

Re: [M100] Bitchin100 down?

Hey Steve, It is working for me. Ken On 11/5/23 8:11 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote: hi folks, is anyone else having trouble with bitchin100.com ? Seems like the site might be down. thanks, Steve

Re: [M100] Model 200 Screen ...Protector??

Did anyone actually look closely at this??  They have a "C-like" compiler for the 8080 called "Cate".  The game is written largley in the Cate language with a few ASM routines to handle M100 specifc stuff!  And all the source code is available for both the game as well as the Cate compiler,

Re: [M100] Happy Father's Day

Thank you ... you too John! Ken On 6/18/23 10:41 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Happy Father's Day to all the dads on the list! -= Model Ts Forever =-

Re: [M100] Switchable clock doubler schematic

On 5/14/23 6:09 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: Hi Philip, It does work with both REX flavors, yes. Yes the keyboard is polled more frequently, but I have not seen a problem with that.  Did you have something in mind? Probably ChatGPT on the M100 or something.  :-) Ken

Re: [M100] Any further info on TDock?

Hey Mark, TDock was an idea for a Pi Hat PCB to interface with the M100 Printer port and then use the RaspPi as the display interface.  I developed a PCB and even built one and wrote some M100 software, but it never got any farther than that.  There were some grumblings about using a RaspPi

Re: [M100] PSCALC Spreadsheet

On 3/5/23 12:11 AM, Gary Weber wrote: By the way, that screenshot that I attached previously which shows proof of this mysterious PSCALC ROM's existence is from a Japanese webpage from the 2003 era: https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1001/pda27.htm Gary, that screenshot is from

Re: [M100] DVI character set

Hey George, When you execute SCREEN 0 or SCREEN 1, it sets a variable indicating the selected screen at the following addresses: M100:  F638H T200:   EF06H This will be 0 for LCD or 1 for DVI. Or you can look at the active ROWs, COLs addresses M100:    ROWS: F63Bh   will be 8 or 25   

Re: [M100] C# terminal slooowwww

Hey Steve, I think the operative words in your email contributing to slowness are "windows machine"  (tee hee hee).  But seriously ... Windows? Do people still use Windows in 2023?  (Sorry, just can't help myself). Ken On 2/24/23 11:15 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote: Question for the crowd.

Re: [M100] Super ROM for NEC

Hey Steve, I don't know if you are still trying to get SuperROM ported to PC-8201 or not, but I have merged in all of my M100 disassembly comments into the PC-8201 disassembly and was able to find *most* of the calls you identified below. Note however the following: 1.  The encoding for

Re: [M100] Printer port clamp

mean if you going to make a mount then might as well have it power the light as well ! -Original Message- From: M100 On Behalf Of Kenneth Pettit Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 8:16 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] Printer port clamp Hmm,  yep, I think you are correct

Re: [M100] Super ROM for NEC

maps/mapview.asp I'm also willing to assist with the conversions on those addresses.  I'll take a first stab and finding the equivalents for the NEC on your list. Gary On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 1:49 PM Kenneth Pettit wrote: Hey S

Re: [M100] Printer port clamp

Colson III wrote: Isn't that connector for the printer side of the cable ? I assumed he was thinking of the back of the Model 100. -Original Message- From: M100 On Behalf Of Kenneth Pettit Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 6:40 PM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] Printer port

Re: [M100] Printer port clamp

Yep, it is a 36-pin centronics connector: https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Centronics-Connector-Printer-Adapter/dp/B00X7BP2B6 Ken On 2/19/23 3:41 PM, Wayne Lorentz wrote: I was in the book store yesterday and picked up one of those little battery-powered lights that clip onto a book. Not the

Re: [M100] Super ROM for NEC

Hey Steve, Looks like the NEC and M100 math routines are a fair amount different. I have started a task of annotating the NEC VirtualT disassembly listing with the hand-coded changes I made to the M100 disassembly. We'll see how far I get along this path (There are a LOT of additions I made

Re: [M100] Need a beta tester

Hey b9, Thank!  I will get these change incorporated into the documentation. Ken On 2/13/23 10:50 PM, B 9 wrote: I am working on updating the ap_doc.do file with AsciiPixel image encoding documentation, but it is a bit involved and is taking some time to update. Hey Ken, I know

Re: [M100] TPDD Page Down?

All, But be careful of the TS-DOS version ... original version of M100 TS-DOS had a bug in the SHIFT+DN function where the first SHIFT+DN will show the 2nd page, but the second SHIFT+DN will take you from the 2nd page all the way to the last page, skipping any pages inbetween.  I'm not sure

Re: [M100] Video RAM, Ram Buffer, and LABEL

On 2/11/23 7:32 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote: Yes until you discover a conflict;). I'm not aware of anything per se in BASIC that needs Altlcd, but not really sure. Virtualt would tell you. Just run your program and see if altlcld is affected? Nothing in BASIC uses ALTLCD.  In fact the

Re: [M100] BASIC 10-liner contest

I won't try to attest to the "fun'ness" of the BASIC 10-liners I wrote, but they are available in my Personal Libraries section at Club100: NUMAZE:  This is a T200 10-liner which is a Number Maze.  Make your way from left to right one column at a time by choosing "up" or "down".  The cursor

Re: [M100] Backlight

On 2/1/23 3:26 PM, bir...@soigeneris.com wrote: The rear polarizer on the LCD would need to be changed from the reflective type to transmissive. The display would also need to be inverted. Then you have to find a way to squeeze the backlight lightguide, LED, etc. into the top of the case and

Re: [M100] Are all the function keys the same?

F key switches can be swapped with other F key switches.  Non-F key switches can be swapped with other Non-F key switches.  But you can't swap F key switches with Non-F key switches. Ken On 2/1/23 7:12 AM, David Plass wrote: Hm, I got one answer that said yes they can be swapped and one that

Re: [M100] Thanks Ken!

> On Jan 11, 2023, at 4:11 PM, hduns...@mac.com wrote: > > I am now (probably?) the first person in human history to render the Zscaler > logo on a physical M100. Feels awesome! I would venture a guess that you may be the first person in human history to render *any* company logo on a real

Re: [M100] Thanks Ken!

That, — OR — A really cool game of guess the logo! I’m imagining an app that plays the game with logo pack expansion files that people could contribute …. Hmm….  Ken Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2023, at 5:06 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > >  > Looks cool! > > I guess we need a

Re: [M100] Thanks Ken!

LOL! Actually, I’m too old for that kind of nonsense (no offense), so I would have simply apologized and that would have been that. :-) Ken Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2023, at 5:26 PM, Fisher wrote: > > Have you seen this guy fight? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_TN_UOJfzc. >

Re: [M100] vga monitor solutions

I’ve actually stripped out the Model T logic from VirtualT and used the framework for other apps twice now Ken Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 19, 2021, at 12:10 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > >  > WRT using Virtual T - I just meant the framework. strip out Virtual T and > replace with a new

[M100] Back in the hospital yet again

Hey gang, Well I’m back in the hospital again with angina and shortness of breath. Hopefully it will be just. A couple of days for a stent or two and then home again. Will let you know. Ken Sent from my iPhone

Re: [M100] NADSBoxes are ready (not on sale until Tuesday

Hey Jim, I added the battery backed real-time-clock in the NADSBox so it could put timestamps on files written to the SD card. However during extended testing, I learned that the clock is not that accurate and drifts over time. I’m not sure if this is due to a PCB layout issue, a mismatch in

Re: [M100] ALL NADSBoxes SHIPPED!

Hi Jack, I *might* have a spare set, but I’m not sure ... I was running really low. If not, the enclosures were purchased from a company called Serpac up in the LA area. They would certainly have contacts available. Ken Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 17, 2019, at 7:31 PM, Gregory McGill

[M100] Recovering in hospital still

Hey gang, Just wanted to give an update after my operation. The procedure had a few complications like leaky sutures (causing a 2nd surgery a several hours after the main bypass), etc. I’m still in the hospital waiting for resolution of the last complication but in general doing well.

Re: [M100] In the hospital

; > Good luck with yours!!! > - Original Message - > From: Kenneth Pettit > To: m...@bitchin100.com > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 11:40 AM > Subject: Re: [M100] In the hospital > > Again, thank you everyone for the good wishes. My operation will be the > later part o

Re: [M100] In the hospital

Again, thank you everyone for the good wishes. My operation will be the later part of the week it sounds like, possibly as late as Friday. Just waiting for the effects of the blood thinners to wear off. Mike, good luck on your procedure also. Have you had this done previously? The most

Re: [M100] "Smart" watch fun

Hey John, Sounds like it’s along the lines of my Pebble watch. It uses an epaper transflective display that looks better the more sunlight available. And it’s battery would also last a week. Unlike the Fitbit though, you could write custom apps for it using the SDK that was available. It’s

Re: [M100] Starblaze 100 strange behavior on select LCDs

The controllers on the LCD module are actually quite slow. The main ROM polls the controller’s “busy” register after each write. My guess is that to achieve maximum speed, Starblaze isn’t doing this poll and instead pushing the controller a bit faster than it was designed for. I haven’t ever

Re: [M100] Ham radio

Hi all, The cassette input HW/SW "measures" the pulse width of the HIGH period of a square wave generated from the input sine wave. A count > 21 is '1' while a count < 21 is a '0' (or is it the other way around...don't have the book in front of me). So if a count value can be found to

Re: [M100] XIP ML in BAISC

Hmm, interesting idea. Targeted HLA assembly to BASIC XIP strings. Could even relative jump from one max length string to the next with a simple ASM routine. Ken Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 2, 2018, at 3:24 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 3:05 PM Ken Pettit

Re: [M100] use of PRINT

Hi Steve. I think I actually used this technique of auto string concatenation in one (or all) of my BASIC 10-Liners. Which reminds me, I never actually got the documentation done for 2 of those. I should do that and post the other 2 games to personal libraries. Ken Sent from my iPhone > On

Re: [M100] Who wants a REX? Gauging interest

Hey Josh, Ahh, I understand this statement perfectly. This is why I have not jumped in to say I could do this. In my opinion, the only viable solution is to have these made professionally in quantity in China or Vietnam and then pass the added cost along to the buyer. Ken Sent from my

Re: [M100] VirtualT IDE Linker

Gary, I'm the linker script, try adding the following: ENTRY entry_label This should work I believe. Ken Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 9, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Gary Weber wrote: > > I was able to create a LKR file (based off of Ken's Sample.LKR), and I > did get it to compile

Re: [M100] Woolly Questions

Hi Jim, Woolly would be a device that services memory in the low address range and responds to new I/O addresses, and would have an onboard 8MB flash chip. As such, serving OptROM images is one of the planned services. If I can make the protocol look like REX, then no new 8085 software would

Re: [M100] Game idea

Hi John, I just now saw this email (it had been filtered into a different folder). Thanks. My idea for M100 was to show top half / bottom half like you suggested. I suspect the code is spending a fair amount if time in AsciiPixels asm, but probably equal or slightly more in BASIC trying to

Re: [M100] BASIC interval timing

The other question is if 1 second is fine enough resolution. Presumably it is if string time is adequate. And yes, the current clock values are maintained in RAM somewhere. The question becomes the time for a single string = operation vs. multiple RAM address reads from BASIC. Ken Sent