Re: [M100] time

2015-10-23 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Here's a program to set the time from NADSBox. http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Synchronize_Time_with_your_NADS -- John.

Re: [M100] Member upload pages

2015-10-26 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 "index.php". > > Is that what

Re: [M100] Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC file transfer...

2015-11-10 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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? We made that mapping some

Re: [M100] Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC file transfer...

2015-11-10 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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. > > >

Re: [M100] Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC file transfer...

2015-11-10 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Mark Wickens wrote: > Great work on this - it's certainly saved me some time moving forward! > Thanks, it was actually a group effort, a few members contributed to make the mapping (I think their names are in the wiki). -- John.

Re: [M100] Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC file transfer...

2015-11-10 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Mark Wickens wrote: > I'm using Talk Talk Business in the UK - they have a Worksafe URL filter > mechanism to block sites based on categories. > For some reason bitchin100.com is Pornographic - personally I don't see it > ;) > > I've emailed their technical support

Re: [M100] Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC file transfer...

2015-11-10 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 word! Bitchin is sur

[M100] Happy Veterans / Armistice Day

2015-11-11 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
To all Club100 members who have served in the armed forces, thank you for your service. -= Model T's Forever =- -- John.

Re: [M100] Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC file transfer...

2015-11-15 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
FWIW the original mapping that was created for the UTF-8 decoder was limited to characters available in 16-bit Unicode for efficiency reasons in HTERM. Getting marginally better representations of the couple of oddball characters weren't worth extra complexity. So the original mapping included char

Re: [M100] Transferring .CO files to a Tandy Model 102/200 without additional software or hardware

2015-11-17 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Mark Wickens wrote: > I get the feeling I might have missed something obvious here, but I can't > seem to quite get there. > > My faithful old Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop has just packed in so I haven't > had a chance to try out one of the DOS based transfer programs

Re: [M100] You have 1 new fax, document 00000864986 (Russell Flowers)

2015-11-18 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wednesday, November 18, 2015, John Martin wrote: > I would like the m100 moderator to stop sending JUNK or SPAM that is not > related to M100. I joined M100 list. But I did not expect to get this send > to my email address. > > John M. > > > I'm confused did you get this on the 30below list o

Re: [M100] Is it possible to use a USB flash drive with a Model 100

2015-11-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
If someone wanted to cut their teeth on an iPhone or android app that would be a good one: just listens to sound coming in, decodes any incoming m100 files and then stores them online or sends as email attachments. If there are audio APIs in Cordova it could be cross platform. I wonder if it coul

Re: [M100] Is it possible to use a USB flash drive with a Model 100

2015-11-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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

Re: [M100] Is it possible to use a USB flash drive with a Model 100

2015-11-23 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
R-pi 2, serial daughter board, laddiealpha would give you access to a usb flash drive. Or wait for TDock from Ken which is based on a rpi2. -- John.

Re: [M100] Question

2015-11-25 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 boot

[M100] USB "juice pack"

2015-11-27 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Anyone know what it takes to use the phone charger "juice packs" to run a M100? Is there an off the shelf connector or converter needed or would I have to build something myself? I have a handful of vendor swag cheapie units laying around. Running a Raspberry Pi off one of them. -- John.

Re: [M100] USB "juice pack"

2015-11-27 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 range from 300-700

Re: [M100] USB "juice pack"

2015-11-27 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 power wise should be compati

Re: [M100] USB "juice pack"

2015-11-27 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
I think I found the answer to my question on the barrel connector : "5.5 mm O.D. x 2.1 mm I.D., or size M coaxial (barrel type) DC power" I found USB->Barrel connector that have these specs except that they are positive center power pin instead of negative. So either I have to modify the cable sl

Re: [M100] USB "juice pack"

2015-11-27 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Looks like this is the right cable but they don't ship to US. http://www.amazon.co.uk/USB-voltage-converter-cable-negative/dp/B011LO5KJE%3Fpsc%3D1%26SubscriptionId%3DAKIAJJKQFJJZIZTE4NFA%26tag%3Dantiviexplai-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB011LO5KJE%26ascsub

Re: [M100] USB "juice pack"

2015-11-28 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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.

Re: [M100] HTerm local echo, pairing M100

2015-11-29 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
HTERM doesn't have a half duplex feature. It needs a lot of features to be a full fledged terminal. But you can hack the code to echo to the screen pretty easily. -- John. On Sunday, November 29, 2015, Hiraghm wrote: > I'm slowly getting my M100 to connect to my Android phone (w/o > programmin

Re: [M100] Is it possible to use USb flash drive with a Model 100

2015-11-29 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Laddiealpha is a Tpdd emulator and I've already tested it on the Pi. Runs fine. -- John.

Re: [M100] Is it possible to use USb flash drive with a Model 100

2015-11-30 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 script. The only con

Re: [M100] Is it possible to use USb flash drive with a Model 100

2015-11-30 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Mike Stein 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 >> prompt or some oth

Re: [M100] Is it possible to use USb flash drive with a Model 100

2015-11-30 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > I'd appreciate that, along with the parameters that I keep forgetting > > Should work pretty well the same with DOS/WIN/*nix... > > m > And FWIW, there's not much that LaddieAlpha can do about TS-DOS timeouts. The timeout periods have to be ex

Re: [M100] Is it possible to use USb flash drive with a Model 100

2015-11-30 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
ked for me... let me know if anyone tries it and it works for them. On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Mike Stein wrote: > - Original Message - > From: John R. Hogerhuis > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 12:05 PM > > ... > >> The only concern would be exiting in c

Re: [M100] Full Null Modem Cable Cottage Industry?

2015-12-02 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 HT

Re: [M100] Full Null Modem Cable Cottage Industry?

2015-12-02 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 25pin > RS-232 port as in

Re: [M100] Full Null Modem Cable Cottage Industry?

2015-12-03 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Thursday, December 3, 2015, Josh Malone wrote: > Well, my primary use of usb serial ports is not for connecting another > computer (DTE wired equipment) but for connecting to serial-controlled > audio visual gear (DCE wired equipment). The point of a usb serial adapter > is to give you that se

Re: [M100] USB "juice pack"

2015-12-03 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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.

Re: [M100] USB "juice pack"

2015-12-03 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Thursday, December 3, 2015, Mike Stein wrote: > Sounds like a lot of stuff to schlep around; would powering the Pi from > the bar code port make any sense? > Definitely an interesting experiment -- John.

Re: [M100] TDock one step closer

2015-12-07 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 port). > It also has a "p

Re: [M100] mComm 1.7

2015-12-15 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 to figure out which > TE

Re: [M100] mComm 1.7

2015-12-16 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 didn't have that problem but

Re: [M100] http://www.littlecherubentertainment.com/cherub-store/

2015-12-16 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Congratulations on your movie Lee! -- John.

Re: [M100] using LaddieAlpha with openWRT

2015-12-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 wor

Re: [M100] using LaddieAlpha with openWRT

2015-12-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 to rs-232 signal level

Re: [M100] using LaddieAlpha with openWRT

2015-12-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 time to work on my And

[M100] TCP socket support for LaddieAlpha.EXE

2015-12-23 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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

Re: [M100] TCP socket support for LaddieAlpha.EXE

2015-12-23 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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.

Re: [M100] TCP socket support for LaddieAlpha.EXE

2015-12-23 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > A little confused by ./LaddieAlpha prefix & references to pty, socat etc. > > m > Well... the general tcp listener feature is useful on any platform. LaddieAlpha opens a listening socket, which when connected treats as a TPDD session. Some of

[M100] Mystery message $0E (14)

2015-12-23 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
TPDD message sent by NEWDOS: 5A 5A 0E 09 4E 4D 20 42 52 20 43 4C 00 EA Communication gets stuck since LaddieAlpha doesn't understand the question. It's possible it's corrupted. Any ideas? -- John.

Re: [M100] Mystery message $0E (14)

2015-12-24 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Trying to save a binary file to LaddieAlpha I think.

Re: [M100] Mystery message $0E (14)

2015-12-24 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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.

Re: [M100] Unresponsive Model 102

2015-12-27 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Your nicd may also be low. Leave it on charger for several hours then withhold all power including memory switch for 10 minutes. Then power it up and do cold start. -- John.

Re: [M100] Raspberry Pi as TPDD

2016-01-02 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Usually the first adapter shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0 If you have multiple you can have issues with which adapter is which name. There's a way to create udev rules so the same name is always bound to the same device. Power cycles: I suggest getting ups pico board or just always keeping it plugged in

Re: [M100] Raspberry Pi as TPDD

2016-01-05 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 tu

Re: [M100] TPDD2 Data cable pinout?

2016-01-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 like he ran across thr

[M100] USB power for Model T

2016-01-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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

Re: [M100] USB power for Model T

2016-01-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 box of them if there's i

Re: [M100] USB power for Model T

2016-01-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Amazon US or UK? -- John.

Re: [M100] USB power for Model T

2016-01-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 cables that are off

Re: [M100] TPDD2 Data cable pinout?

2016-01-14 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
So do you think that "stealing power from flow control" is just some old BS? I wouldn't be surprised. Once you get this all proven out I'd like to publish your analysis and design on Bitchin100 wiki with your permission. -- John.

[M100] TPDD2 Data cable pinout?

2016-01-14 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 ther

Re: [M100] TPDD2 Data cable pinout?

2016-01-14 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Mike Stein wrote: > 'Stealing power' (AKA parasitic power) from the control lines is a fairly > common technique in the RS-232 gadget world: > > http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/rspower.html > > I think in the case of the TPDD it was used in the LapDos cable to

Re: [M100] TPDD2 Data cable pinout?

2016-01-14 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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.

Re: [M100] TPDD2 Data cable pinout?

2016-01-17 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Sunday, January 17, 2016, Ron Wiesen wrote: > http://www.club100.org/library/doc/testtdd.html > > Perfect, thanks Ron! -- John.

Re: [M100] Beta Testers needed

2016-01-21 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
For what it's worth I have a android program that creates a Bluetooth to ssh bridge. The core code is working but it needs a bunch of UI work particularly around the Bluetooth connection. I figured with a bridge to run LaddieAlpha on the server then I don't need to make the tablet a TPDD server. A

Re: [M100] Beta Testers needed

2016-01-21 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Kurt McCullum wrote: > John, > > That's a great idea to use it as a bridge. I'm guessing you're using > New-DOS due to the timing. How is the speed when you have everything > connected? > > I've not had much luck with Bluetooth so I just stuck with a wire. Doubt

Re: [M100] TS-DOS at 9600

2016-01-25 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
TSDOS stays at 19200 unless it autobauds down to 9600. I expect this is to be compatible with a Brother FB100 which can only go to 9600. I expect it is switching down because latency on responses is too high. Maybe you have set a breakpoint or or stepping through code that builds a response. You c

Re: [M100] TS-DOS at 9600

2016-01-25 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
As to how tsdos can be forced to 9600 I don't know. It must work that way because it is compatible with drives that are fixed at 9600. Maybe you just need to set your service to 9600 bps. That way when tsdos commands you at 9600 you detect and respond at that baud. If it sends at 19200 you either

Re: [M100] TS-DOS at 9600

2016-01-25 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Monday, January 25, 2016, Kurt McCullum wrote: > Thanks John, > > I'm not setting a breakpoint but going through two usb to serial adapters > and logging events is enough to create a big lag and TS-DOS drops down to > 9600. Settings my app at 9600 works as long as I tweak the RAM version of >

Re: [M100] New mComm release 0.8

2016-02-03 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Just to clarify the TPDD2 doesn't have sub directory support. The sub directory protocol originated in Desklink, a DOS TPDD service. Ken Pettit reverse engineered it and then it was implemented by him in NADSBox and by me in LaddieAlpha now by you in mComm. -- John.

Re: [M100] New mComm release 0.8

2016-02-03 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wednesday, February 3, 2016, Kurt McCullum wrote: > John, > > Thanks, I wasn't aware of the history behind the directory protocol. > > Kurt > The unique things to the TPDD2 I think are No baud config DIP, fixed at 19200 Two sides An incompatible and undocumented sector access protocol. -- J

Re: [M100] UTF-8

2016-02-05 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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. -

Re: [M100] New mComm release 0.8

2016-02-05 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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.

Re: [M100] New mComm release 0.8

2016-02-05 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:13 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > > 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 >> >> >

Re: [M100] UTF-8

2016-02-05 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 filters the ANSI escapes and

Re: [M100] UTF-8

2016-02-05 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Well there have been 60 column fonts and code made for m100. Maybe that could be integrated in. Or, some kind of sliding window thing. Vi seemed ok. Mutt worked fine but in the end 40 columns is just not a lot of space. -- John.

Re: [M100] New mComm release 0.8

2016-02-06 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 write something a littl

Re: [M100] New mComm release 0.8

2016-02-06 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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 source code is clean

Re: [M100] Cable Update and question

2016-02-11 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
DSR has to be asserted unless you have a patched client. Various programs check it to verify the cable is connected. It seems dumb to me but that's what they did. -- John.

Re: [M100] Cable Update and question

2016-02-11 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Thursday, February 11, 2016, Kurt McCullum wrote: > Thanks John. So having CD tied to DSR pulls it low and makes it look like > nothing is connected? > I don't know the electrical part of it. Just know that DSR needs to be seen as asserted. Can you check it from m100 side? And are you assert

Re: [M100] Android tablet + m100

2016-02-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
It's possible that some android os's may not ship with the USB serial driver (compiled as a module and not included). Something to verify if you can get one of these connected to adb. -- John.

Re: [M100] Android tablet + m100

2016-02-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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.

Re: [M100] Android tablet + m100

2016-02-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
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.

Re: [M100] New mComm release 0.8

2016-02-12 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Tom Hoppe wrote: > I finally had time to test this. It works great on Samsung Galaxy S5. I am > having unrelated issues with TS-DOS/NewDOS, but it occurs with DLPLus and > LaddieAlpha as well. Rex works great every time for loading saving BX and > BY files. If I t

Re: [M100] OT: Epson HX-20

2016-02-15 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Chris Fezzler wrote: > Any EPSON HX-20 owners/users in Club100? > I have a PX-8 but I never got it working. -- John.

Re: [M100] OT: Epson HX-20

2016-02-15 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Monday, February 15, 2016, Scott Lawrence wrote: > I've got a PX8 also. I have to leave it charging for a long time before it > decides to power on. It needs new rechargeable batteries. > > S > > > I think the problem is that I believe there are two rechargeables. The main rechargeable I boug

Re: [M100] Accoustic Couple Modems for Sale

2016-02-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Kevin Wong wrote: > > Hi gang, > > I hope it's not against the rules to post items for sale on this list, but > I thought these would be better offered here than anywhere else. > You're good. It's always fine as long as they are Model T items that you are persona

Re: [M100] Freewrite machine for writing

2016-02-26 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
If you have will power all you need to do is maximize your window and turn off the speaker. All these devices are design for people without it which on electronic devices seems to be most everyone. -- John.

Re: [M100] Virtual-T Host Com Port

2016-03-03 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Thursday, March 3, 2016, Ken Pettit wrote: > New-DOS attempts to get around this by detecting it is running in > Virtual-T and using VT's un-documented real-time timer feature to implement > time outs. > > Ken > > > Cheater! ;-)

Re: [M100] "Dreamhost.com did not encrypt this message"?

2016-03-04 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Yes On Friday, March 4, 2016, Russell Flowers wrote: > Is bitchin100.com hosted on Dreamhost? I see this message/icon on every > list email now: > > [image: Inline image 1] > > If you hover over it with your cursor, the message "dreamhost.com did not > encrypt this message". > > -- Russ >

Re: [M100] Mcomm 1.2

2016-03-09 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Kurt McCullum wrote: > Thanks Willard, > > I have the Bluetooth working with the RAM versions of TS-DOS that I > tweaked to have a longer delay. While they do work, it's definitely slower > that just using a wire. The Bluetooth adapter I have is larger than the > c

Re: [M100] Mcomm 1.2

2016-03-09 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Wednesday, March 9, 2016, Kurt McCullum wrote: > John, > > I notice it most when listing the contents of a directory. When I transfer > a file it is slightly slower but not much. I think New-Dos has ways around > the delay by checking to see if the number of bytes have been received but > I'm

[M100] Fwd: M100 subscription notification

2016-03-09 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Yay! Welcome back Gary. -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:26 PM Subject: M100 subscription notification To: m100-ow...@lists.bitchin100.com Gary Weber has been successfully subscribed to M100.

Re: [M100] Model 200

2016-03-13 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Michael Brant wrote: > I just acquired a model 200. I am fairly new to the this portion of the > Tandy world. I am more of a CoCo user/collector. However, I am looking to > see what accessories are being made in the hobby community for it. Any info > would be gre

Re: [M100] Cross Reference Tables

2016-03-15 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Kurt McCullum wrote: > As many of you know, I've been searching for the RAM versions of Sardine > for quite some time. Bob P. located the 200 version but the 100 and NEC > versions are still unaccounted for. Looking at Gary's 8201.net site > brought me to the BINC

Re: [M100] The return of Web8201

2016-03-15 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Jan-80 wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:36:15 -0700, Gary Weber wrote: > > It isn't at its original domain address, but it lives: > http://www.web8201.net > If the current owner of the www.web8201.com domain name ever shows up, > I'd like to have a conversation

Re: [M100] Newcomer

2016-03-15 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
There's a lot of information at my site bitchin100.com as well particularly on the wiki. Welcome. I was a coco kid myself. Never really got going with the 6309. All my coco stuff is as it was in the 90s. I used to use os9 level 2 along with tsedit and tsword to format papers and essays. Also progr

Re: [M100] Question about TS-DOS/Desklink loaded files corrupted

2016-03-19 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Maybe try LaddieAlpha on Linux? I suggest Laddiealpha because I've tested it on Linux Windows and OSX. And because I wrote and maintain it. Desklink is a dos program and all but the dos users have abandoned it because it is not reliable on new oses Are you running it in an emulator? But that is

Re: [M100] 3DPrinted Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 102 Battery Cover

2016-03-19 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Yes very inspiring. Now I want a 3d printer so I can mod my Model T case. Custom colors... custom badge... Anyone have a scanner to create a model? -- John.

Re: [M100] Question about TS-DOS/Desklink loaded files corrupted

2016-03-21 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Monday, March 21, 2016, Joseph Remy wrote: > Awesome! The Load .DO, save .BA trick works! > At least for the first program I tried. > > And now I know what all my cold-starts were caused by! :P > > I'm also going to try LadieAlpha, but I'm currently a bit skeptical as > it's going to be runni

Re: [M100] Question about TS-DOS/Desklink loaded files corrupted

2016-03-21 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Joseph Remy wrote: > I think DLPlus is actually what I'm running. Shows up as just an > executable called "dl". > > Ah. The original Desklink is a DOS application. DLPlus was originally written by Stephen Hurd, and now I maintain it. I added support for the WP-2

Re: [M100] Question about TS-DOS/Desklink loaded files corrupted

2016-03-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Joseph Remy wrote: > Turns out it was a silly network issue. My work's WiFi is absolutely > terrible, so somehow, I had enough to rsync files, but not apt-get > anything... > > It's an RPiA+ running Wheezy. It's a bit slow running. I got it > finally up and ru

Re: [M100] Question about TS-DOS/Desklink loaded files corrupted

2016-03-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
I think maybe we're mixing in different conversions. Renaming files to match their actual file type isn't really a conversion it is just a rename. That solves the mismatch problem no matter the software. Laddiealpha doesn't physically rename files it just detects files misnamed as ba and presents

Re: [M100] Teeny & Desklink Questions

2016-03-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Bill Nobel wrote: > Hi Guys > > I am a recent newcomer to the Model 102 and am trying to setup Desklink & > Teeny on my win 7 starter Small laptop. I have a USB to serial cable which > when I use Hyperterminal @ 19,200 I have communication. I am able to send >

Re: [M100] Question about TS-DOS/Desklink loaded files corrupted

2016-03-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > > > BTW, it is sometimes necessary to rename the file itself, e.g. when there > already is a .DO file containing documentation; another issue is different > versions named .100 and .200 for the respective models. > Good point. -- John.

[M100] Reference info on full 8085 instruction set

2016-03-22 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Anyone have full reference info on the 8085 including undocumented flags? I know about the undocumented instructions. But then there's the undocumented flags. I understand how to compute oVerflow. But what about K? The other thing is: It's not obvious to me what instructions result in modificat

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