[M100] VT100 Emulation and DVi

2023-11-26 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Hi all, I recently decided to take my main battle-station (apple iie) out of service, so I can dedicate more space to my Tandy 102. What I have found though, is that the Model 100 isn’t quite ideal for BBSing, even with the DVI. A lot of systems assume VT100 emulation, which Apple did have. I

Re: [M100] Text Sweeper 2.7.3

2023-11-25 Thread grima...@gmail.com
I assumed Josh was referring to all “computers” not just personal computers. iPhones run iOS which based on Unix(BSD), and Android is based on Linux. Most Smart TVs and Streaming boxes are running Linux. On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 12:29 PM Walt Perko wrote: > Hi, > > > > The vast number of

[M100] Text Sweeper 2.7.3

2023-11-24 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Hi all, Happy Thanksgiving to all those who may be located in the US and celebrated! I just wanted to share that since last year, I have done a bit more work on Text Sweeper (Model 100 Minesweeper Clone), and have published a new release to GitHub.

Re: [M100] Adding Gotek to T100 Disk Video Interface

2023-05-08 Thread grima...@gmail.com
You beat me to it! I was just setting up a git repo of the files I used and got working. https://github.com/Grimakis/Tandy-DVI-Gotek/tree/main One thing I will note, without adding a cskew=1 in my IMG file, I did not get it to work. On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 7:09 AM Josh Malone wrote: > I

Re: [M100] Self Modifying Machine Language in BASIC

2023-03-07 Thread grima...@gmail.com
original HL value ; Rest of program goes here ; stored in your hidey hole HH: DAD SP MOV E,L MOV D,H RET On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 10:16 AM grima...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the info Ken. > > That does seem more expensi

Re: [M100] Self Modifying Machine Language in BASIC

2023-03-07 Thread grima...@gmail.com
ontaining 0x) to indicate the location in the > edited .DO file of the start of that line. I call it the "line starts > array". When runing BASIC, this memory region is unused and can be > poked with any ML you want. On M100, this is at address F6EBH. > > Hope this h

[M100] Self Modifying Machine Language in BASIC

2023-03-07 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Hi all, One of the things I struggled with in trying to build 8085 subroutines for BASIC program was the lack of a relative jump command. So far, the approach I have taken to embed ML programs into BASIC has been to poke them into arrays, thus allowing BASIC to manage the routines within memory.

Re: [M100] Removing DVI Disk Basic

2023-03-02 Thread grima...@gmail.com
. -George On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 9:48 AM Brian K. White wrote: > I never noticed that, but I just tried it and you're right, the dvi > needs the system disk on every power-on, not just for installation. > > -- > bkw > > On 3/2/23 09:20, grima...@gmail.com wrote: > &g

Re: [M100] Removing DVI Disk Basic

2023-03-02 Thread grima...@gmail.com
the system disk. (unless there is a way to load the DVI software into the DVI from the System Bus connector of the M100.) That would be great if possible, you could bootstrap a DVI without the original disk. -George On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 9:11 AM Brian K. White wrote: > On 3/2/23 07:37, gr

Re: [M100] Removing DVI Disk Basic

2023-03-02 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Hi Brian, Just reading the descriptions in your link and they seem to be exactly what I need. Thank you very much! Best, George On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 7:05 AM Brian K. White wrote: > On 3/1/23 22:17, grima...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The linked document e

[M100] Removing DVI Disk Basic

2023-03-01 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Hi all, The linked document explains how to remove Disk BASIC from memory on a T200. https://archive.org/details/DVI263806Notice Does anyone have the procedure to remove Disk BASIC from an M100? -George

Re: [M100] DVI + Floppy Emulation

2023-03-01 Thread grima...@gmail.com
I just want to say, I finally replicated your project Jerry! Everything works great! The only modification I made was to set cskew=1. Formatting and writing to disk didn’t work correctly until I did that. After I got that working, I too switched the drive jumpers and got the DVI to boot off of

Re: [M100] - Backpack

2023-03-01 Thread grima...@gmail.com
When you load a file through COM, I don’t think the file information is passed at all. The Model 100 expects ASCII and tokenizes it on the fly. Try sending an actual tokenized program over COM and it will fail I believe. Could be wrong through On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 9:20 AM wrote: > I also

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-28 Thread grima...@gmail.com
lines are 1-3 bytes after renumbering from 1. I also do use Packer.BA from Club100. This removes comments, and combines lines that aren’t referenced by GOTO, GOSUB, etc. Best, George On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 9:49 PM B 9 wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 4:55 PM grima...@gmail.com

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-28 Thread grima...@gmail.com
in Python land. -George On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:20 PM B 9 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 7:51 AM grima...@gmail.com grima...@gmail.com > <http://mailto:grima...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Currently I’m using VS Code and Virtual T in tandem to develop. It would >> be grea

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-27 Thread grima...@gmail.com
rminal emulator to > play Tsweep! > > steve > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 6:02 PM grima...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi Steve, >> >> I updated it again. I think I accidentally uploaded the wrong file >> initially. >> >> https://github.com/Grimaki

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-26 Thread grima...@gmail.com
ether! > cheers and thanks > Steve > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 4:41 PM grima...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi Steve, >> >> https://github.com/Grimakis/TextSweeper/releases/tag/2.5.1-beta.1 >> >> I just put together a pre-release of 2.5.1, which I ha

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-26 Thread grima...@gmail.com
://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=VT100 > or > 2) the MVT100 windows application found here --> > http://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?direction===Steve%20Adolph/MVT100%20for%20PC; > > Anyhow, I find external video quite nice to have but I never appreciated > the DVI muc

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-26 Thread grima...@gmail.com
he DVI seems silly, but that's just me. > > Anyways, if you don't want to adapt the print@ statements, I get it. > thanks anyways. > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 2:40 PM grima...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> I think the way I would prefer to handle it would be to check

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-26 Thread grima...@gmail.com
oughts? > Steve > > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 2:09 PM grima...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi Steve, >> >> As of right now, it’s supporting only 40col mode. >> >> Currently, the way I am taking advantage of the DVI and T200 larger >> displays

Re: [M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-26 Thread grima...@gmail.com
olumns? > Is there a way you could put in a switch to enable 80 column mode? > > thx > steve > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 8:15 PM grima...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As previously mentioned, I have been working on Text Sweeper again. I've >> mad

Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM

2023-02-26 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Just noting here, I pushed Text Sweeper 2.5.0 yesterday. Minor changes: -Support for DVI Screen 1 -Exit to Menu instead of Basic. On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 3:37 PM Philip Avery wrote: > Correct Mike, a 1950 Land Rover. This one: > > > > Philip > > On 26/02/2023 8:07 am, MikeS wrote: > >  > >

Re: [M100] Possible BBS launch

2023-02-26 Thread grima...@gmail.com
ven tried it over the web! > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 7:44 AM grima...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> What are the odds that any of these BBSes would allow dialing in from a >> real phone line? >> >> There is a Commodore 64 BBS out there called BorderlineBBS that has a >&g

Re: [M100] Possible BBS launch

2023-02-26 Thread grima...@gmail.com
What are the odds that any of these BBSes would allow dialing in from a real phone line? There is a Commodore 64 BBS out there called BorderlineBBS that has a hybrid Telnet/Dial-Up interface. I managed to use the acoustic couplers to dial in once from the Model T, but ever since switching to

Re: [M100] - Backpack

2023-02-25 Thread grima...@gmail.com
te mdy > set date dmy > set date ymd > > Cheers, > Gary > > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 7:16 PM grima...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Thank you! >> >> I typed it in from GitHub. what I found is my Backpack is setup to reply >> with dd/mm/. >> >&

Re: [M100] - Backpack

2023-02-25 Thread grima...@gmail.com
BASIC file. > > I’ll get these renamed and include the tokenized version in the future to > avoid such confusion. > > > > Jeff Birt > > > > *From:* M100 *On Behalf Of * > grima...@gmail.com > *Sent:* Saturday, February 25, 2023 7:19 PM > *To:* m...@bitchin

Re: [M100] - Backpack

2023-02-25 Thread grima...@gmail.com
e and I thought it was great and encouraged him to >>> make more offering my help. My only part of the design was the case. >>> >>> Jeff Birt >>> >>> *From:* M100 *On Behalf Of * >>> grima...@gmail.com >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, Februar

Re: [M100] DVI character set

2023-02-25 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Thanks Ken, worked like a charm! On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 5:29 AM B 9 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 12:10 PM Kenneth Pettit > wrote: > > Or you can look at the active ROWs, COLs addresses >> >> M100: >>ROWS: F63Bh will be 8 or 25 >>COLS: F63Ch will be 40 or 80 >> >> T200: >>

Re: [M100] DVI character set

2023-02-24 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Random questions. 1. Is there an easy way to identify from BASIC, a computer which is connected to a DVI. 2. Is there a range of memory that I can access from BASIC that mirrors the DVI screen contents? Basically, I've updated Text Sweeper to properly ID the model 200 and check the right LCD

Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM

2023-02-24 Thread grima...@gmail.com
> > Is the plan for TSWEEPER to eventually take advantage of the larger > playing field on the Tandy 200 (and other Model Ts)? > Well, I think that definitely would be a great feature, although it's not something I've started thinking about yet. If I were to go that route, I'd potentially also

Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM

2023-02-21 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Just an update for B9. I changed a few things with Text Sweeper. Not only did I fix the bug where the T200 won’t stop redrawing the screen, but I officially added support for the larger screen size. The bottom half of the screen is used for the controls menu. The the F8 exit screen now utilizes

Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM

2023-02-15 Thread grima...@gmail.com
maller. I forget the name but I think > one of the option roms has one. > > bkw > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 8:29 PM B 9 wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 6:00 AM grima...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> If someone wants to branch my repo and mod it to a

Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM

2023-02-14 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Wow! 2.0 was a long time ago! I think in 2.1, I made some the change to the way the minefield generation works. To make a long story short, one of the features I incorporated was that no mine can be present in any cell surrounding initial click. In essence, the cell you click will always be a

[M100] - Backpack

2023-02-14 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Just received my Backpack from Soigeneris. All I have to say, is that I really like the design of it all. It’s relatively compact, it matches the design of the M100, and it runs on a single AA cell. I immediately plugged it in, and got it to work. Pretty much zero configuration needed. I’ve

Re: [M100] Conflict with Backpack SD drive

2023-02-14 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Do you need DOS and Multiplan concurrently? If you have a REX, you probably can switch between Multiplan and the ROM version of TS-DOS as needed! -George On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:12 AM wrote: > Talking to friend who created Backpack and he suggested trying Teeny.co as > it does not hook into

Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM

2023-02-14 Thread grima...@gmail.com
I already put together a 2.3.1 release, which significantly increases cursor responsiveness. Try it out if you have time. Best, George On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 11:40 PM B 9 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 2:16 PM grima...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> 1. I am still alive and well, n

[M100] - Text Sweet 2.3 Release

2023-02-11 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Hi all, As previously mentioned, I have been working on Text Sweeper again. I've made a bunch of changed behind the scenes, but the things that will be noticeable to you: - Slight graphical changes. - Better mine generation for denser minefield. - Controls can be seen by pressing H

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

2023-02-11 Thread grima...@gmail.com
> Cheers > Steve > > > On Friday, February 10, 2023, grima...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've got a few questions for you all. >> >> 1. Is there any way to disable the LABEL button in a BASIC program? I >> have found that if you p

[M100] Video RAM, Ram Buffer, and LABEL

2023-02-10 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Hi all, I've got a few questions for you all. 1. Is there any way to disable the LABEL button in a BASIC program? I have found that if you press it during my game (Text Sweeper), it will shift the entire minefield up by one row and print the Function Key defs. Of course this renders the game

Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM

2023-02-06 Thread grima...@gmail.com
Hi all, I did just see this thread, and I want to provide a few updates. 1. I am still alive and well, not that anyone seemed overly concerned there :D 2. My website is down because I accidentally kicked out the network cable for my raspberry pi, and I didn't notice. I will be fixing this