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

On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 12:37 PM Philip Avery wrote: > Correct Mike, a 1950 Land Rover. > Wow! That looks like it just rolled out of the factory. —b9

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Looks gorgeous! - Original Message - From: Philip Avery To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2023 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM Correct Mike, a 1950 Land Rover. This one: Philip On 26

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8:07 am, MikeS wrote: > >  > > Knowing Philip, more likely a Land Rover or a Jeep ;-) > > - Original Message - > *From:* B 9 > *To:* m...@bitchin100.com > *Sent:* Saturday, February 25, 2023 4:01 AM > *Subject:* Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for >

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2023 4:01 AM *Subject:* Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 1:21 PM Philip Avery wrote: My excuse is I was commissioned to do a vintage vehicle restoration which has soaked up all my spar

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Hi Jim, Yes there is a special LaddieAlpha that runs at 76800. John of course owns that. Right now the only software I have that makes use of the 76800 modified TPDD routines in M100 is the RXCUTL software. Having said that, I've not touched it in 2 years, to either test or use. Should still be

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Knowing Philip, more likely a Land Rover or a Jeep ;-) - Original Message - From: B 9 To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2023 4:01 AM Subject: Re: [M100] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 1:21 PM

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B9 do these fonts you linked provide more than Unicode encodings? Not sure how it works... I'd want the characters to be assigned at their model t order for some applications. -- John. On Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 1:31 AM B 9 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 9:59 AM Jim Anderson jim.ander...@kpu.ca

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 9:59 AM Jim Anderson jim.ander...@kpu.ca wrote: My unfinished thing is that I started on a project to improve the font used > on the MVT100 board, and I made a minor improvement to readability of a few > characters (6, 9, and Q, I

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 1:21 PM Philip Avery wrote: > My excuse is I was commissioned to > do a vintage vehicle restoration which has soaked up all my spare time > for the last 2-years. Vintage vehicles are fun, too. This wouldn't happen to have been a Model T, would it? The good news is I'm

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Yes, I have a list of jobs to do on M100 CP/M. Rest assured I'm still committed to all-things M100 CP/M.  My excuse is I was commissioned to do a vintage vehicle restoration which has soaked up all my spare time for the last 2-years. The good news is I'm almost complete & I expect within a few

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> -Original Message- > > Did you ever finish whatever it was you still needed to do for rexcpm? > > I don't remember what the problem was supposed to be by now, but I > remember to keep watching for some update to either cpmupd or to the > disk image every time I reload my rexcpm, and I

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Well, you don't need it on a T200 ;-) The challenge was putting a 9x9 grid on an 8-line screen BTW, he's also the guy who did most of the firmware for the CP/M port. On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 2:41 AM B 9 wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 4:06 PM Mike Stein wrote: > >> You might also get

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Did you ever finish whatever it was you still needed to do for rexcpm? I don't remember what the problem was supposed to be by now, but I remember to keep watching for some update to either cpmupd or to the disk image every time I reload my rexcpm, and I only know that the files haven't

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> > 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

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Thanks, Philip. It could be useful for showing digits (and flags) for minesweeper! Also, it might be possible to port Sudoku to the Tandy 200. —b9 On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 1:18 AM Philip Avery wrote: > Yes, I'm still around. I've uploaded to the Personal Library on > Club100.org the source for

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Yes, I'm still around. I've uploaded to the Personal Library on Club100.org the source for Sudoku display - SUDISP.DO. I don't know how much use this would be for you as all I was doing was displaying a 9x9 grid on the M100/T102 8-line display. I just rolled my own font for digits 1-9. I've

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On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 4:06 PM Mike Stein wrote: > You might also get inspired by Philip Avery's Sudoku program in his > Club100 upload folder. > Unfortunately, it doesn't work at all on my Tandy 200. (I tried both version 3.1 and 4.1). Maybe he'll publish the source... > That'd be nice. Is

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 2:13 PM grima...@gmail.com wrote: > 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. Thanks. Tested and works great on my Tandy 200. >

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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

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You might also get inspired by Philip Avery's Sudoku program in his Club100 upload folder. Maybe he'll publish the source... m On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 10:16 AM Joshua O'Keefe wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2023, at 6:58 AM, B 9 wrote: > > > > TextSweeper could benefit from more rows, which ROM-View

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> On Feb 19, 2023, at 6:58 AM, B 9 wrote: > > TextSweeper could benefit from more rows, which ROM-View 80 doesn't do. Does > anyone know if there is a ROM to do that? Ultrascreen100 can do this. I found my copy in Gary Weber's member upload area. At 10 lines the font is not beautiful for

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:35 PM Brian White wrote: > There are also font replacements that make more rows & columns on the > existing lcd by making the glyphs smaller. I forget the name but I think > one of the option roms has one. > I think I stumbled upon what you were talking about:

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Well nothing kills like overkill...if you've determined the model the screen character data is always maintained in RAM at the same spot per model (as opposed to the raster which is only maintained in the display drivers). Using varptr peek and poke you could create a special 40 character string

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On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 7:45 AM John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > What is needed is a way to disable the label key feature while the program > runs. > Oh. If that's the ultimate goal, I believe you can just use: KEY OFF But, perhaps all the machinations to handle the damage from the label key were

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I don't see how turning off the label line would help? You can turn off the label line. But the problem is when someone presses the label key, the line comes on, and it messes up your display. What is needed is a way to disable the label key feature while the program runs. There might be a poke

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> > There is one minor bug, though. You can't win if your last move uses that > technique. > Thank you, will test that again! Seems like a pretty bad bug. I figured the behaviour was so weird there had to be a good reason. While > it may be more complicated to move the mines around after the

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There are also font replacements that make more rows & columns on the existing lcd by making the glyphs smaller. 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

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 7:26 PM grima...@gmail.com wrote: > Make sure to check out what happens when you click a number cell, and it > has the appropriate number of flags around it. > I gotta say, that one change made a big difference in TSWEEP. Less drudgery and more strategy! There is one

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 7:26 PM grima...@gmail.com wrote: > 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 zero. This is how Microsoft’s version works > as

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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

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> > Just note, I already put together a 2.3.1 release, which significantly > increases cursor responsiveness. Try it out if you have time. Works great on my Model 200 once I commented out line 3010. (Until I hit the 'H' key, anyhow). I like that you are using asterisks ✳ for the mines now. That

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 6:00 AM grima...@gmail.com wrote: > If someone wants to branch my repo and mod it to add graphics, I suppose > they could. However, I would advise against it. I plan to do > continuous development on Text Sweeper for a while, and will be releasing > updates more

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> > I love text as the base setting and can understand why you'd want to stay > true to the pure text spirit. Would you object if someone made a mod that > allowed for both text and graphics? Would it help if it was named something > else to avoid confusion with TSWEEP? If someone wants to branch

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On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 2:16 PM grima...@gmail.com wrote: > 1. I am still alive and well, not that anyone seemed overly concerned > there :D > Yay! > Updates coming soon. > >- I started managing the codebase through a Private git repository. I >will opt to just make this Public for

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" I am still alive and well, not that anyone seemed overly concerned there" Great to hear that you're well George! For my part I don't automatically raise the alarm bells when a member goes quiet for a while... people do come and go and sometimes gafiate. It happens. Glad to see some updates to

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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

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Hi All, Sorry, didn't reply to this for quite some time ... the family caught Covid-19 last week and I was still recovering (I was taking care of everyone and then was the last to get it). I will look into my T200 AciiPixels implementation to see if I ever (or can still) get it to a

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If you would, I'd greatly appreciate it as reverse-engineering it and porting it to the T200 is well beyond my abilities. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but is the only documentation for the graphics format in the source code (e.g., pbm2ap.c)? The docs I found on club100 simply say, "TOP SECRET!"

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Hey b9, I would have to go back and check the T200 support. I know I had ASCPIX working on T200 at one point because I had a few demos of some full-screen images and even a screen mock-up of Mahjong tiles. Ken On 6/30/22 12:33 AM, B 9 wrote: Thank you, Tom and John! TSWEEP doesn't seem to

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I was able to load the version in the 2017 email you linked + the ASCPIX.CO from the same email using those instructions. I ran it in CloudT. However, the TSWEEP.DO text provided in the email is corrupted, it has extra line breaks that make it not load. I cleaned those up. Attaching both...

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Thank you, Tom and John! TSWEEP doesn't seem to work on my Tandy 200 when ASCPIX.CO is loaded. I get a syntax error in line 16000 which is the first call to ASCPIX that actually tries to show something: CALL A, 2, VARPTR(F$) Ken Petit's member page at club100 has a download for ASCPIX.CO that

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And here it is, on this very mailing list https://www.mail-archive.com/m100@lists.bitchin100.com/msg03562/tsweep1_1.ba Tom Wilson wilso...@gmail.com (619)940-6311 On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 8:25 PM Tom Wilson wrote: > Also, this forum thread talks about Text Sweeper. Unfortunately, the

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Here's some files I have in my Google drive For tsweep 1 ' VERSION 2.0 2 ' COPYRIGHT, GEORGE M. RIMAKIS, 2017. 3 ' ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 900 GOTO 14000 2915 PRINT @ 192," SQUARES";:PRINT @ 232," LEFT:"; 2916 PRINT @ 272,"";:PRINT @ 272,""+STR$(MC); 3000 IFAP=0THEN 3007 3001

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Also, this forum thread talks about Text Sweeper. Unfortunately, the link is dead, so we'll have to find another copy somewhere... Tom Wilson wilso...@gmail.com (619)940-6311 On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 8:23 PM Tom Wilson wrote: > Here is Ken's Ascii Pixels library: > >

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Here is Ken's Ascii Pixels library: http://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?=0==Ken%20Pettit/AsciiPixels Tom Wilson wilso...@gmail.com (619)940-6311 On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 7:00 PM John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > ASCII Pixels is in Ken Pettit's Personal Library on club100. > > I'm not sure

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ASCII Pixels is in Ken Pettit's Personal Library on club100. I'm not sure the best place to get textsweeper a minesweeper clone. Written by George Rimakis. It was shared via the list I'll try to figure out the latest and greatest. -- John. On Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 5:24 PM B 9 wrote: > On Thu,

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:38 AM John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > Oh yeah, ASCII Pixels... I remember playing a lot of the Minesweeper that > used ASCII Pixels > Googling for "ASCII Pixels" is turning up nothing for the TRS-80 Model 100/102. What are ASCII Pixels? Also, where can I find Minesweeper?

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Yeah, I could do more with it if only there were 36 hours in the day ... or 9 days in the week. :) Ken On 6/16/22 11:37 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Oh yeah, ASCII Pixels... I remember playing a lot of the Minesweeper that used ASCII Pixels. -- John.

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Oh yeah, ASCII Pixels... I remember playing a lot of the Minesweeper that used ASCII Pixels. -- John.

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] M100 LCD repair video and alternative use for unused screen RAM On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:56 AM mailto:bir...@soigeneris.com> > wrote: I did try cleaning the contacts on the two bad LCD glass panels with acetone and it made no difference. The 'U' clamps worked great for temporary as

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:56 AM wrote: > > I did try cleaning the contacts on the two bad LCD glass panels with > acetone and it made no difference. The 'U' clamps worked great for > temporary assembly though. > Hmmdo you think the corrosion actually damaged the "traces" in the LCD glass?

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On 16/6/22 03:58, bir...@soigeneris.com wrote: When learning how the screen RAM load save worked it occurred to me that the RAM for the unused segment drivers is also unused. It got me wondering if anyone had ever used these bytes as a hidey hole for data, etc. It would be a pretty sneaky

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>> I think Jeff was talking about unused portions of the display components >> themselves. There are 10 display drivers and parts are unused at the edge of >> the screen. It isn't like peeking and poking ram, it's accessed via I/O >> instructions. Yes, exactly. I’m referring to the RAM in

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On 16/6/22 12:37 pm, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2022, 6:34 PM Daryl Tester wrote: ALTLCD comes to (ageing and decrepit) mind? ALTLCD is in RAM, it has character data. Decrepit mind for the win! -- Regards, Daryl Tester Handcrafted Computers Pty. Ltd.

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2022, 6:34 PM Daryl Tester < dt-m...@handcraftedcomputers.com.au> wrote: > > ALTLCD comes to (ageing and decrepit) mind? > ALTLCD is in RAM, it has character data. I think Jeff was talking about unused portions of the display components themselves. There are 10 display drivers

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I've thought a few times about using that area. I never have because to access the data requires more work and code that the system ram. So far I've decided not to spend the code. For Rex, that space isn't available on T200 so I've not used it on that project. I guess it's not a lot of code

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On 16/6/22 03:58, bir...@soigeneris.com wrote: When learning how the screen RAM load save worked it occurred to me that the RAM for the unused segment drivers is also unused. It got me wondering if anyone had ever used these bytes as a hidey hole for data, etc. It would be a pretty sneaky place

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

Hi guys, I did a video on M100 LCD repair a few weeks ago but for got to post about it here. Link below. As part of the diagnostic process, I took a program I found in the M100 archives and added a basic GUI so you can fill the screen black, clear the screen and load/save the screen. I used