[M100] Memory

Hi all, On my newly acquired M100, I see 29266 Bytes Free. It looks like I've got 32K installed, yippee one less thing I have to hunt down. However, when I print himem, I see 62960. This seems at odds with having 32K. What's the deal? Thanks, Will

Re: [M100] Memory

Yup. That explains it and rings some bells, too. Thanks, Will On 9/26/22 6:55 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 4:46 PM Will Senn wrote: Hi all, On my newly acquired M100, I see 29266 Bytes Free. It looks like I've got 32K installed, yippee one less thing I

Re: [M100] assembly language first steps

Hi Will, I think most people on the list prefer tasm, though I use only the assembler in VirtualT personally. Of course I wrote it and so therefore know how to use it and all of it's quirks. Ken On 9/26/22 5:13 PM, Will Senn wrote: It will only be a matter of time before I want to program

Re: [M100] transferring files both directions

> On Sep 26, 2022, at 5:24 PM, Will Senn wrote: > find the DB-25, null-modem adapter, and DB-9 to USB adapter That is essentially what I use (although I picked a 9-pin<>USB adapter that was pre-wired null since I have no use cases for a non-nulled connection). USB gadget:

Re: [M100] assembly language first steps

Alex, I've used 64tass (a version of tasm?) for 6502 stuff, it prolly does 8085 stuff, too: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tass64/files/source/ on my Mac: unzip 64tass-1.56.2625-src.zip cd 64tass-1.56.2625-src make CPPFLAGS="-D_XOPEN_SOURCE" mv 64tass ~/bin cd 64tass --version 64tass

Re: [M100] assembly language first steps

> On Sep 26, 2022, at 5:13 PM, Will Senn wrote: > I believe there is a basic assembler program in the wild and I've read about > Custom Software's assembler, are either or both available online? Take this with a little bit of salt since I haven't actually used it but it might not be totally

Re: [M100] transferring files both directions

Cool, I'll order up and report results :). Will On 9/26/22 8:02 PM, Joshua O'Keefe wrote: On Sep 26, 2022, at 5:24 PM, Will Senn wrote: find the DB-25, null-modem adapter, and DB-9 to USB adapter That is essentially what I use (although I picked a 9-pin<>USB adapter that was pre-wired null

Re: [M100] assembly language first steps

I'll give these a try once I figure out the serial transfer stuff! On 9/26/22 8:55 PM, Charlie Hoey wrote: I have been dipping my toes in as well, mostly writing/assembling on the hardware itself with BYTEIT, and more recently CMZASM (both available here:

Re: [M100] assembly language first steps

Cool. I'll look into it. I've done cross-compiling for the 6502, but getting the code onto target was the challenge.  Off to figuring that out. On 9/26/22 8:43 PM, Ken Pettit wrote: Hi Will, I think most people on the list prefer tasm, though I use only the assembler in VirtualT personally. 

Re: [M100] Questions about tokenizing BASIC in UNIX

On 26/9/22 18:44, Joshua O'Keefe wrote: If the kernel has DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y [1] then: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63682160 Thanks for that, will also have a poke later (gotta find my other FT2232 board as well). DYNAMIC_DEBUG is pretty neat!  It didn't

Re: [M100] Battery Cover

Well that was easy. I just drilled a little hole and inserted a screw. Not beautiful, but very effective. I'll try to pick up a nice black low profile screw and that'll be that. Glorious! On 9/26/22 1:17 PM, Will Senn wrote: Hi David, I'll see about a work around. My grandad used to fix

[M100] transferring files both directions

So, I've read up and looked around for this and haven't found quite the answer I was looking for, so I'm asking here (don't worry, I'm not gonna eternally spam y'all, but I've got these initial questions...). I've got a Mac Pro (big honking Mac machine from 2010 with 6, 3 ghz intel xeon

Re: [M100] assembly language first steps

Where can you still get tasm? I didn't think the original website was around anymore and I'd like a copy of the Linux build. On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 21:44 Ken Pettit wrote: > Hi Will, > > I think most people on the list prefer tasm, though I use only the > assembler in VirtualT personally. Of

Re: [M100] Memory

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 4:46 PM Will Senn wrote: > Hi all, > > On my newly acquired M100, I see 29266 Bytes Free. It looks like I've got > 32K installed, yippee one less thing I have to hunt down. However, when I > print himem, I see 62960. This seems at odds with having 32K. What's the > deal?

[M100] assembly language first steps

It will only be a matter of time before I want to program in assembly on my m100. I've read up and familiarized myself with the landscape on this and find it a bit confusing. What is the preferred (or most common method) of getting an assembly/machine language program to run on the m100. I

Re: [M100] assembly language first steps

I have been dipping my toes in as well, mostly writing/assembling on the hardware itself with BYTEIT, and more recently CMZASM (both available here: http://www.club100.org/library/libprg.html). Both work by writing your asm code in the TEXT app and then compiling separately. BYTEIT assembles out

Re: [M100] Character bitmaps

Worked like a charm on my newly arrived M100. Sheesh, this thing is a beast! Serial number shows 302003672. If I'm understanding it correctly, this means 1983, February, machine number 3672 of the batch. Wow, that's a while back (I was 17). I tore it down and put it all back together again.

Re: [M100] Questions about tokenizing BASIC in UNIX

On 26/9/22 15:52, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Enabled by default. Huh. Weird considering both ends are going to be sending their own xon xoff. Not necessarily. How the Linux OS will respond to a program that has a port open to xon/xoff will depend on the type of port e.g. if it's a pty, it'll

Re: [M100] Questions about tokenizing BASIC in UNIX

> On Sep 25, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Daryl Tester > wrote: > > I've got a todo item to see how > to enable the dev_dbg() messages I looked, hoping to spare you from rebooting with debug enabled the old fashioned way. If the kernel has DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y [1] then: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63682160

Re: [M100] Questions about tokenizing BASIC in UNIX

Enabled by default. Huh. Weird considering both ends are going to be sending their own xon xoff. I guess whatever functionality it is creating must coexist with software flow control happening generated by the two parties. Or I am just thinking of the feature wrong altogether. Maybe it's a

Re: [M100] Character bitmaps

Hi Ken, Thanks for the pointer. I didn't realize there was an emulator out there. Hopefully my machine should get here today! Will On 9/25/22 6:47 PM, Ken Pettit wrote: You can start with VirtualT if you really want.  ;-) Ken On 9/25/22 2:15 PM, Will Senn wrote: Thanks Mike! That's the

[M100] Battery Cover

All, My soon to arrive M100 has the battery cover taped on. I ran across a couple of stl files for 3d printed covers. Has anyone tried these and if so, what's been the experience? I like this one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:955567 which is based on this simpler version:

[M100] Battery Cover

All, My soon to arrive M100 has the battery cover taped on. I ran across a couple of stl files for 3d printed covers. Has anyone tried these and if so, what's been the experience? I like this one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:955567 which is based on this simpler version:

Re: [M100] Battery Cover

I made a remix of the top linked file.  It works and looks OK.  The tabs are still the weak link.   If you still have the original, I wonder if using other methods to secure it would work?  (Small screws, 3m tape, etc.)? Sent from Mail for Windows From: Will SennSent: Monday, September 26, 2022

Re: [M100] Writing binary files from BASIC

For public domain databases, what occurs to me are: - The CIA World Factbook - MAME arcade games - Various genomics and scientific nomenclature for the tree of life Of course, none of those are as useful to have on an M100 as Pokemons. :) —b9 On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 6:03 PM Eric LK

Re: [M100] 39-year-old Radio Shack laptop gets new CPU, keeps original screen

On 9/26/2022 11:07 AM, Alex ... wrote: I remember thinking when I was reading the IEEE source article: It would have been so much easier to just fix the original motherboard. :) On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 12:02 Dan Eicher wrote:

[M100] 39-year-old Radio Shack laptop gets new CPU, keeps original screen

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/09/39-year-old-radio-shack-laptop-gets-new-cpu-keeps-original-screen/ [https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVF.0ezyznc5PtyLPow5ukfsRQ=Api] 39-year-old Radio Shack

Re: [M100] 39-year-old Radio Shack laptop gets new CPU, keeps original screen

I remember thinking when I was reading the IEEE source article: It would have been so much easier to just fix the original motherboard. :) On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 12:02 Dan Eicher wrote: > > https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/09/39-year-old-radio-shack-laptop-gets-new-cpu-keeps-original-screen/

Re: [M100] Battery Cover

Hi David, I'll see about a work around. My grandad used to fix these kind of things with sheet-metal, tin-snips, and screws. I may give that a shot first. Will On 9/26/22 8:37 AM, David Grissom wrote: I made a remix of the top linked file.  It works and looks OK.  The tabs are still the