coming from the barcode wand
port and going back to the M100... but I don't think there is a port there
is there? Did you stick Bluetooth module in the battery compartment?
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:01 AM, John R. Hogerhuis jho...@pobox.com
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jho...@pobox.com'); wrote
How big are the save files?
-- John.
Then I'm guessing Disk+ is a non TPDD storage service.
I remember discussing Disk+ before. Might search the archives.
-- John.
Thanks Steve and Fred!
Nice when a bug fix helps everyone.
-- John.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Clinton Reddekop
clinton.redde...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi John,
For the games that I have it would vary from about 12K to just under 16K.
Clint
Wow that's big. What the heck is in there?!
I wonder if the data is amenable to packing / compression.
If you
Or since they're text files Kurt's mcomm text transfer would be even
easier.
John.
On Thursday, April 30, 2015, Kurt McCullum kurt.mccul...@att.net wrote:
The more I look at it the more I think it's the same as the ADRSS and
SCHEDL programs. All the functions are the same.
Kurt
I overlooked ADRSS and SCHEDL for a long time. With the text editor and
clever formatting they
You could run LaddieAlpha on your laptop and just use a USB serial cable to
transfer your files.
John.
On Monday, May 4, 2015, John Gardner gof...@gmail.com wrote:
...So unless you want to use a CP/M machine for file storage...
Hey! I resemble that remark...:)
More power to you! Retrocomputing is always a valid reason.
-- John.
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Hiraghm hira...@hotmail.com wrote:
IF i get some spare time to spend with my M100 (not likely, but I can
dream), I'd like to work on my project to use my Android phone as storage
for my M100 via BlueM. Is the TPDD emulation part of the Laddie Alpha /
Laddie Con
From a Portable 100 mag it looks like there were Disk+ disk services
for Apple II , CP/M, TRS-80 desktops, IBM and clones, etc.
Looks like the Model 4 service was in Ira's archive
http://www.retrocomputing.net/parts/r/radio/TRS80_4/docs/on2006.htm
The equivalent of the TS-DOS + Desklink (or
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Ken Pettit petti...@gmail.com wrote:
Just what I need, another ARM based SBC occupying space in a drawer
alongside all the other development boards I have :)
Ken
I hear you, but... similar to the Raspberry Pi, the beauty of popular
gadgets like this
On Monday, May 18, 2015, Ken Pettit petti...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, I've looked *many* times doing quite exhaustive searches just about
everywhere I could think of looking for a similarly sized / shaped LCD.
Nada, unless you want to order 10,000 of them.
So that means we would have to be
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:07 PM, John Whitton jwhit...@bellsouth.net wrote:
This discussion comes up from time-to-time. I recall giving the question
some thought. There is available on the 80C85 the HLDA pin, which was
included for implementing DMA. That input is not brought to the external
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Kurt McCullum kurt.mccul...@att.net wrote:
You could always try using the win32 mode that the latest version offers. I
had some trouble with a usb to serial adapter and John put some code in to
use the win32 API directly. This solved the issues I was having with
Hi,
I'm the author of laddiealpha.
The hex trace is normal.
How are you starting it?
-- John.
Are they TPDD 1 diskettes?
If so the raw sector data could be extracted to PC files by using the TPDD
protocol.
The TPDD 2 also has sector access commands but I don't recall whether it
was completely reverse engineered.
-- John.
Sector access via large files and seek command is already implemented in
LaddieAlpha and Nadsbox.
-- John.
On Monday, June 1, 2015, Joe Grubbs jsgru...@hotmail.com wrote:
If it doesn't, we need a clever developer who is very intimate with the
Model 100/200 architecture and the 8085 to port it :) Someone in the Color
Computer community ported CP/M to run under OS-9 on the 6809. If that can
be
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:14 AM, DRogers wa7...@gmail.com wrote:
Too slow for Wordstar cp/m? Back in the day, I used an Epson PX-8 with dual
disk drives and a 128K RAM pack -- all of which I still have. It ran a ROM
based Wordstar. If you had a 4 page document and you made a small change in
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Kurt McCullum kurt.mccul...@att.net wrote:
James,
I've never used teeny. From what I understand it's a DOS program that must
have com1-4 to load a client onto the M100. But other than that I don't know
much about it. a TPDD client like TS-DOS allows you to
MFORTH opt rom source is public so you could look at that.
http://www.strangegizmo.com/products/mforth/
Steve Adolph with REX/REXMGR is the one to most recently create an
Option ROM. You could ask him what he has as far as a Option ROM
template.
-- John.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Mark Wickens m...@wickensonline.co.uk wrote:
I have a package waiting for me in the hallway - it's either an NEC or a
Tandy 200!
Mark.
Wow already in Stage 3 of your model T addiction. Ecellent...
-- John.
It's funny from the menu he has HTERM installed but he didn't use it in the
demo. In addition to implementing hardware flow control it also maps to the
m100 character set including graphical characters. Also it filters out ANSI
color escapes. So it reduces a lot of the garbage you otherwise see on
TEENY is only about 800 bytes.
I recommend you try it and build some confidence transferring binary files.
Also keep in mind that Telcom isn't the only native way to transfer files.
You can save load files straight to the com port from TEXT. It's much
faster and less clumsy than TELCOM since
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Kurt McCullum kurt.mccul...@att.net wrote:
The topic of being able to put a Model-T online comes up every now and then.
I've been toying with the idea of adding a Telnet client to mComm. My
thoughts were to add the ability to switch to Telnet mode in mComm. When
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Sean Gallagher
sean.gallag...@arstechnica.com wrote:
I've succeeded in getting the Model 100 to connect to a Raspberry Pi as a
terminal. I'd be happy to add the configuration steps to the Wiki after I get
them all cleaned up.
I created an account, let me
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Joe Grubbs jsgru...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello All,
I saw this posted on a Facebook group and it got me thinking. I wonder if
this could be repurposed (with some ancillary hardware and ROM tweaks) to
give the Model 100/200/102 an external VGA display for very
On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Bob Pigford rpigfo...@comcast.net wrote:
I don’t think that any of us on the list feel you wasted our time. On the
contrary, we are actually happy [yes, really] to be of some assistance. We
are glad that you worked it out. We all enjoy learning from each other.
On Wednesday, August 5, 2015, Andrew Roach ajroac...@gmail.com wrote:
No. There's a telnet client for the 200LX. I telnet in to a
broken/headless laptop, and SSH from the laptop to wherever.
Ah. Makes sense.
-- John.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Todd Schlemmer thesch...@gmail.com wrote:
I just opened this STL up and it has a few issues. First and foremost, does
the battery cover differ in size between the model 100 and 102? It looks
like this STL was modeled in inches, but when I import it, it is too
I can confirm that with a proper termcap (and in my case, HTERM and a
cable capable of hardware flow control) vim worked well.
Haven't ever tried setting up termcap on a Android system. It might work.
Rather than fight Android's oddball Linux my current approach is to
skip that step and have the
On Wednesday, August 5, 2015, Kurt McCullum kurt.mccul...@att.net wrote:
After doing some testing with 1.6 I made some changes and bug fixes to
mComm. The Telnet (client/bridge or whatever you want to call it) works
fine but the only BBS systems that have any hope of displaying properly are
http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Recovering_an_Unresponsive_Laptop
I've had pretty good luck running old programs under DOSBOX and DOSEMU. Not
sure if it would work on Windows 95.
There might be some real mode options available on 95. It has been a long
time.
-- John
Club100 sells the replacement belts. Let me check the archives and see
if we have the specs so you can buy it directly if necessary.
-- John.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Barry Rands bcra...@gmail.com wrote:
Just opened up the drive and yes, the belt is in pieces. Do I need to order
from
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:03 PM, John Gardner wrote:
> No pop-ups? Say it is'nt so... :)
Well Internet pop-ups bad sure, but I mean more like small pop-up
menus and modal prompts. The idea being that repainting small areas of
the screen (pop-ups, character glyphs) may be OK
The Model 100 has a fairly small serial buffer of 64 bytes. Software flow
control at least talking to Linux is just not fast enough at higher bps.
But even the high undocumented bps rates work without byte loss with
hardware flow control implemented.
-- John.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Russell Flowers wrote:
> Here's what I'm seeing:
>
> If I click filename in the first column, I get a pop-up with the word "File
> : ", then a folder icon, a printer icon, and a download icon. Clicking the
> download icon, I do get an
Here's a program to set the time from NADSBox.
http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Synchronize_Time_with_your_NADS
-- John.
On Tuesday, November 10, 2015, Mark Wickens
wrote:
> Hi Russ
>
> I've made a start - the biggest time waster for me will be to find the
> most suitable equivalent Unicode character, but I'm already some way down
> the road.
>
>
>
Isn't that the part that's already done?
That's weird. What search engine?
On Tuesday, November 10, 2015, Mark Wickens
wrote:
> Great thank you - wasn't being thick, my ISP was blocking bitchin100.com,
> so it never came up in a search.
>
> Regards, Mark.
>
>
>
To all Club100 members who have served in the armed forces, thank you
for your service.
-= Model T's Forever =-
-- John.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Ken Pettit wrote:
> Actually when I lived in China back in 2007 - 2009, I had to use a USA based
> proxy server to access the Bitchin100 site because it was being blocked by
> the country's universal firewall.
>
> Ken
>
Sheesh. It's not a bad
On Friday, October 9, 2015, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
> By download you mean you're copying what file in what direction?
>
> -- John.
>
Never mind needed to re read the thread.
-- John.
ou have a 24k machine.
>> >> Kurt
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Friday, October 9, 2015 2:57 PM, James Zeun <james.z...@gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','james.z...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >&
I agree with this. Plus his RAM is corrupted now so a cold start is the
only way to get back to a stable system.
-- John.
On Sunday, August 30, 2015, Clinton Reddekop clinton.redde...@gmail.com
wrote:
Yes I am. Steve Adolph told me that REXMGR reloads ALTLCD before using
it, so I don't suspect a problem there.
Thanks,
Clint
Well unless you're actually writing past the end of it on accident that's
all I can
It's well known that AZERTY is actually the optimal layout for quickly
typing the phrase "We surrender!"
-- John.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Jan-80 wrote:
> NOT funny...
>
Because it's offensive or because it's stupid (I'll admit to both in this case)
-- John.
LaddieAlpha runs on Linux. It's a .NET program, you must need to launch it
under mono like the instructions describe.
http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=LaddieCon#LaddieAlpha
-- John.
If you were building one I would recommend an all in one cable that hooks
straight from a USB port to any model t particularly the model 100 with no
adapters necessary.
Also it should be full null rather than defeating flow control as the old
complink cable did in order to support programs like
You know I guess I never said why I was interested in the juice packs
relative to M100.
Basically it is to power a Pi as a storage device and internet bridge yet
still be mobile.
But then I thought, since we have the extra weight anyway, what if the M100
could be powered from the same juicepack.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
> Presumably because PC com ports are also male and whatever you would have
> plugged into that port or the USB converter replacing it would therefore
> have a female connector; female<->female adapters are cheap. A female
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Ken Pettit wrote:
> The implementation in the picture is a daughter card for the Raspberry Pi 2
> B (a "Pi Hat"). It connects with the Model T parallel port for primary
> communication of video data, but also has an RS-232 port (and a BCR
On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, Kurt McCullum wrote:
> Just wanted to let you all know I'm in the final testing stages of mComm
> version 1.7
>
> This big news with this version is SSH support. This will allow you to log
> into a unix/linux box if you so choose. I'm trying
On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Kurt McCullum
wrote:
> Thanks John,
>
> I'm not doing any UTF8 mapping yet but eventually I hope to. I found a
> termcap for the 200 and gave it a try. The status bar at the bottom has to
> be disabled or everything gets jumbled.
>
I
Congratulations on your movie Lee!
-- John.
You would think so. But bog standard Pi images corrupt if you pull power
even if you're not doing anything.
I think the main reason is that Linux updates a "last accessed" time stamp.
So even if you're not writing to it and even if it's a system file it may
still write to the disk.
But you can
Should work. Laddiealpha has more features but if all else fails DLPlus
will work.
One interesting thing about DLPlus is it's based on DL. The original code
had login prompt built in. I'm not sure if I kept it working since I didn't
know what it was there for.
But I think it might allow it to
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote:
> yes, that's a useful thing to know.
> What I want to do is have LaddieAlpha reachable on my wifi network.
>
> Then I will use a bluetooth adapter and android phone to bridge my serial io
> onto wifi.
Wish I had more
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
> Linux only?
>
>
It runs on Windows, Linux and OSX (as all versions of LaddieAlpha).
-- John.
I've put a new version of LaddieAlpha.EXE up at bitchin100.com for testing
http://bitchin100.com/files/linux/LaddieAlpha.EXE
This version can listen on a TCP socket.
For example:
.\LaddieAlpha.EXE tcp://192.168.1.103:8085 6
means, instead of a COM port, listen on IP address 192.168.1.103, port
Oh! That makes sense. It seemed to be sending a lot if garbage. But if it
had switched to 9600 that explains a lot.
Yeah I'd be interested in a new version if you make one.
-- John.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Jonathan Yuen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Congratulations on your pi. You know that there IS a serial port built in on
> the GPIO bus and you don't really need a USB-RS-232 converter. But the
> signal levels on the GPIO need a converter from ttl
Trying to save a binary file to LaddieAlpha I think.
Problems can be fun.
But solved problems have their positive attributes too.
LaddieAlpha works fine on OSX! I've tested it, and I support it. So if
you have trouble getting it working just ask on the list.
Dependencies are:
Mono
A loaded TPDD client. Best bet: A REX unit running TS-DOS, or
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Mitch Parker wrote:
> John,
>
> How many hours can you run a pi from one? I have quite a stash myself, and
> they are all between 2000 and 2600 mAh.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mitch
>
Not sure haven't measured. I guess it depends on which one. They seem
to
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Brad Whitlock wrote:
> The juice packs should put out 5V, the same as you'd get from 4 rechargeable
> batteries, so it should just be a matter of making a cable with USB on one
> end and the right size coax power on the other.
>
OK so
Looks like this is the right cable but they don't ship to US.
Thanks!
Actually Steven I think this is the same seller as I saw on Amazon UK. It
seems in the US he just advertises the cables for specific devices instead
of by specification.
I'll write to the seller and see if the exact 6v negative polarity
5.5mm/2.1mm cable can be purchased.
-- John.
On Monday, November 30, 2015, Steven Ranft wrote:
> Hi John,
> Thanks for the response. I have a few questions.
> Can you set up the Pi to start LaddieAlpha without user input? (Headless
> operation)
>
Yes. It's just an executable. You could call it from a systemd or init.d
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: John R. Hogerhuis
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 12:05 PM
>
> ...
>
>> The only concern would be exiting in case you want to access the command
>&g
... let me know if anyone tries it and it works for them.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: John R. Hogerhuis
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 12:05 PM
>
> ...
>
>> The only concern wou
My recollection is that I had success transferring from an iPhone back to
m100. But I had to make the recording with audacity and transfer it as a
music file and then play back.
The problem is the volume of playback. But just transferring to the phone
if you're planning on just transcoding into a
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Kurt McCullum
wrote:
> John,
>
> That's quite a find! 6v center negative from a USB source. Nice! Any idea
> if they will make them available for purchase?
>
> Kurt
>
>
>
The seller is on Amazon called "MyVolts."
I imagine we could buy a
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
> That's useful, and I must confess I was looking at the wrong part of the
> schematic! ;)
>
> I suspected that it must not be a straight through cable, because that would
> be too easy. From his description it sounds
I mentioned a little while back that I was looking into a USB to Model T
power (only... NO DATA) cable and had found one.
Well, I still don't know how to buy one but the vendor sent me a couple of
free cables. It works great!
IMG_0722.JPG
Amazon US or UK?
-- John.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:59 PM, DRogers wrote:
> The title of the ad for it is:
>
> 6V USB power cable for Creative 70EM779006000 PSU part
>
> A quick search of "6V USB power cable" should find it.
>
> David, WA7ZYQ
>
>
>1.
>
>
Ah, the issue for me was that they have many
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Brian White wrote:
> The newest rex now has the option to switch between main system roms not
> just option roms. And you can program them in-place with software, no
> external programmer.
>
Yes...
> ... wait, your own name appears right on
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Brian White wrote:
> * I can neither buy nor make my own rex today. (or can I?)
>
True.
> * Nor can I safely predict that anyone else could a few years from now.
> Unless that changes, I don't care to spend time and energy figuring out cool
>
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Chris Fezzler wrote:
> Okay. No response to my last post.
>
> So I'll rephrase. Is any interested in purchasing a mint, in-the-box, NEC
> PC8300?
Definitely a neat machine. I have two though :-)
-- John.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Kurt McCullum wrote:
> I've tried this on my actual machine and on Virtual-T with the exact same
> results. I'm not sure why but I can only run or load a program from bank 1
> with DOS-ON activated. DO files don't seem to be a problem.
>
>
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote:
> Rex manager can be deinstalled, leaving an optrom active.
Actually was wondering about that! So in the end, it is can really
just be a plain old optrom.
-- John.
On Thursday, June 2, 2016, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
> > On Jun 2, 2016, at 08:46, Mike Stein >
> wrote:
> >
> > Originally you would use a program called LAPDOS to format, copy files
> to/from a PC etc., but AFAIK it does not play well with modern
Xon/xoff flow control doesn't work with the model t and Linux unless you
turn the baud rate down really low. That's why in HTERM I implemented
hardware flow control.
Teeny/DL is packet based and it doesn't use flow control. and in fact
doesn't need it because it's completely client driven.
Why doesn't the person on the Facebook group join the list?
Do we have cooties?
-- John.
On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Brian White wrote:
> Anyone have a system disk for a Chipmunk drive?
>
> Asking on behalf of someone on the facebook group.
>
On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Russell Flowers wrote:
> Maybe they don't use email. :D
>
>
>
So they use a computer made in the 80s but using email, well that's a
bridge too far ;-)
-- John.
Hello Model T'ers:
I've noticed several new subscriptions to the list lately.
Welcome all! We endeavor to be a friendly, mostly on-topic list dedicated
to the Model 100 and work a-likes.
When you get a chance please introduce yourselves. How did you come to the
hobby, how do you use your model
I'm pretty sure you can buy those connectors. There was a lady I talked to
a long time ago who had built her own replacement cables for connecting
knitting machine to Brother FB100 and IIRC they didn't look kludged.
-- John.
I don't really remember but I don't think anything happens when you turn on
the drive. It just sits there.
Ron Wiesen may be able to help you... I have a vague recollection of some
short BASIC code to send a test command and get a response. I know I've
seen it and I thought it was Ron's.
You
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Kurt McCullum
wrote:
> John & Ken have the TPDD 1 & 2 protocols well documented on the Bitchin100
> site.
>
> Kurt
>
>
And source for LaddieAlpha is a reference point too.
http://bitchin100.com/pub-git/laddiealpha.git/
-- John.
On Saturday, February 6, 2016, Roma wrote:
> I guess I'll have to dig for it.
> I get this error with the link below.
> http://bitchin100.com/pub-git/laddiealpha.git/
> "You need a Git Client to download this Repository"
>
> But I'm sure I can get it.
>
> Mono! I'd like to
On Saturday, February 6, 2016, Roma wrote:
> OK, I have a GIT client, not sure I see any documentation. And it's been a
> while since I wrote and C/CSharp. So ... any documentation in the GIT
> repository with respect to some kind of command structure?
>
>
Well hopefully the
The wiki and the HTERM source.
http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Unicode_Mappings
http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTERM
http://bitchin100.com/files/m10x/HTERM.lst
UTF-8 isn't enough to make it work if you're remoted into a Linux box, you
also need to scrub out ANSI escapes.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:13 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Kurt McCullum <kurt.mccul...@att.net>
> wrote:
>
>> John & Ken have the TPDD 1 & 2 protocols well documented on the
>> Bitchin100 site
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Kurt McCullum wrote:
> Perfect! Thanks John.
>
> Yeah the ANSI escape codes are a pain. With the Telnet/SSH bridge in mComm
> for Windows it ended up being a let down.
>
Well with HTERM and a your bridge it should all just work. HTERM
On Friday, February 12, 2016, Kurt McCullum wrote:
> John,
>
> The drivers are built into the library I am using. It supports an Android
> OS as old as 3.1.
>
> Kurt
>
>
Interesting. What library are you using?
-- John.
Cool stuff thanks. When I first started looking at Android I saw serial
support so fragmented that I skipped straight to BT. But this library at
least makes good serial port across devices and kernels possible.
-- John.
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