Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-21 Thread Brian White
I took a look just in the Peripherals dir in m100sig Most of these *seem* to be more about saving 5k than compatibility. https://computerarchive.org/files/mirror/web8201.com/web8201files/M100SIG/Lib-09-Periferals/ 09-dx.txt says: BOOT.BA Text, Bytes: 465, Count: 238, 26-Oct-86 Title :

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-20 Thread Fugu ME100
;From: "Josh Malone" >To: m...@bitchin100.com >Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 9:55:01 AM >Subject: Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI > >I don't think you're missing anything. I just don't think DVI-DOS and >REXMGR can coexist. It didn't occur to me when Stephen posted his me

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-20 Thread Greg Swallow
<>< - Original Message - From: "Josh Malone" To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 9:55:01 AM Subject: Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI I don't think you're missing anything. I just don't think DVI-DOS and REXMGR can coexist. It didn't occur to me when Stephen posted his

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-20 Thread Josh Malone
s, > > GregS <>< > > - Original Message - > From: "Stephen Adolph" > To: m...@bitchin100.com > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2:05:37 PM > Subject: Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI > > I think how I would solve this problem > 1) have a ram image that is TSD

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-20 Thread Greg Swallow
Stephen Adolph" To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2:05:37 PM Subject: Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI I think how I would solve this problem 1) have a ram image that is TSDOS centric 2) have a ram image that is DVI centric 3) switch between the ram images 4) use the file acc

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Kurt McCullum
Got it. I'll have to give that a spin when I get home. Thanks On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, at 1:15 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > one way transfer from a ram image to current RAM. not the other > way challenging to write a file into a stored RAM image.> > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:11 PM Kurt

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Greg Swallow
You Da Man Steve - Original Message - From: "Stephen Adolph" To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2:05:37 PM Subject: Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI I think how I would solve this problem 1) have a ram image that is TSDOS centric 2) have a ram image that is DVI

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Josh Malone
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:15 PM Stephen Adolph wrote: > > one way transfer from a ram image to current RAM. not the other way > challenging to write a file into a stored RAM image. > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:11 PM Kurt McCullum wrote: >> >> >> "the file access function of REX to

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Stephen Adolph
one way transfer from a ram image to current RAM. not the other way challenging to write a file into a stored RAM image. On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:11 PM Kurt McCullum wrote: > > "the file access function of REX to transfer files between ram images" > > I must have missed this one in the

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Kurt McCullum
"the file access function of REX to transfer files between ram images" I must have missed this one in the manual. Are you saying that REX can copy individual files between banks? Fascinating. Kurt On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, at 1:05 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > I think how I would solve this problem >

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Stephen Adolph
I think how I would solve this problem 1) have a ram image that is TSDOS centric 2) have a ram image that is DVI centric 3) switch between the ram images 4) use the file access function of REX to transfer files between ram images. On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:00 PM Josh Malone wrote: > On Tue,

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Josh Malone
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:21 PM Greg Swallow wrote: > > All: > > A bit premature in claiming compatibility between TS-DOS and DVI-DOS. I was > able to load a file (SPREAD.BA) from mComm via TS-DOS as expected. After > saving the DO to BA I started the DVI boot process. I was then able to save

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Fugu ME100
February 19, 2019 at 9:18 AM To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Subject: Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI seems like DVI is a failure from the perspective of ... what software is actually written that can leverage it? Are there any applications? (ties into my objective of a video card for M100

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Josh Malone
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:18 PM Stephen Adolph wrote: > > seems like DVI is a failure from the perspective of ... what software is > actually written that can leverage it? > Are there any applications? > (ties into my objective of a video card for M100...DVI compatibility may be > useless) > >

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Stephen Adolph
<>< > > - Original Message - > From: "Josh Malone" > To: m...@bitchin100.com > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 9:04:13 AM > Subject: Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI > > Is it necessary to uninstall TS-DOS to get DVI DOS to load? Can't say > we tried t

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Brian White
hit send too fast Maybe rexmgr just needs to be added to the list of things you have to temporarily pack away like floppy or ts-dos, while dvidos is installed. Maybe one of those old utils could be hacked a little to do that. Another idea, I have not tried, but it seems that the ts-dos ram

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Brian White
There are programs in the old m100sig archive that describe themselves as being written to deal with exactly that need, that dvidos and floppy or other tpdd can't coexist at the same time, so they wrote utilities to switch between them without wiping and installing. On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 11:04 AM

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Greg Swallow
l Message - From: "Josh Malone" To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 9:04:13 AM Subject: Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI Is it necessary to uninstall TS-DOS to get DVI DOS to load? Can't say we tried that. I know REXMGR can't be installed, but can you run TS-DOS from REX

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Josh Malone
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:54 AM Gregory McGill wrote: > > I posted a similar experience last year when i got mine with tsdos and dvi > trying to copy files from my android mcomm drive to dvi disks is frustrating Is it necessary to uninstall TS-DOS to get DVI DOS to load? Can't say we tried

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Gregory McGill
I posted a similar experience last year when i got mine with tsdos and dvi trying to copy files from my android mcomm drive to dvi disks is frustrating On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 5:20 AM Josh Malone wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:05 AM Stephen Adolph > wrote: > > > > Greg, I don't have a DVI,

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Josh Malone
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:05 AM Stephen Adolph wrote: > > Greg, I don't have a DVI, so I have never attempted this. DVI probably wipes > out the hooks used by REX. Not sure it will work or not. > Steve Randy and I attempted to get his DVI booted at Tandy ASM last year, and we had to uninstall

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Greg Swallow
ry 19, 2019 6:04:45 AM Subject: Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI Greg, I don't have a DVI, so I have never attempted this. DVI probably wipes out the hooks used by REX. Not sure it will work or not. Steve

Re: [M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Stephen Adolph
Greg, I don't have a DVI, so I have never attempted this. DVI probably wipes out the hooks used by REX. Not sure it will work or not. Steve On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:49 AM Greg Swallow wrote: > All: > > Having a blast with Rex, but a bit of difficulty getting things working > with the DVI. Is

[M100] Rex vs DVI

2019-02-19 Thread Greg Swallow
All: Having a blast with Rex, but a bit of difficulty getting things working with the DVI. Is it a one-or-the-other thing or is there a special sequence of steps, like booting the DVI already is, to get it all to work? God Bless, GregS <><