Re: [M100] THAT didn't work... ;-)

2017-01-09 Thread Russell Davis
if you want to be able to write to a named pipe before your reader is created you have to open the named pipe as read/write using an extra step e.g. |--- pi@glooston:~/GnuCOBOL/open-cobol-code/branches/gnu-cobol-2.0 $ mkfifo foo pi@glooston:~/GnuCOBOL/open-cobol-code/branches/gnu-cobol-2.0 $ ex

Re: [M100] THAT didn't work... ;-)

2017-01-09 Thread Russell Davis
using a static file will work. i forget the reason why at the moment pi@glooston:~/GnuCOBOL/open-cobol-code/branches/gnu-cobol-2.0 $ mkfifo foo pi@glooston:~/GnuCOBOL/open-cobol-code/branches/gnu-cobol-2.0 $ date | tee now Mon 9 Jan 21:37:23 UTC 2017 pi@glooston:~/GnuCOBOL/open-cobol-code/bra

Re: [M100] THAT didn't work... ;-)

2017-01-09 Thread Russell Davis
rd Sent from Samsung tablet Original message ---- From Russell Davis Date: 01/09/2017 2:25 PM (GMT-07:00) To Model 100 Discussion Subject Re: [M100] THAT didn't work... ;-) if you want to be able to write to a named pipe before your reader is created you have to open the

[M100] Dockerized VirtualT

2017-04-08 Thread Russell Davis
I've put together a Dockerfile for building and running VirtualT inside a Docker container on a Raspberry Pi (all models including PiZero/PiZeroW) and it works pretty well. It's only been tested on a Raspberry Pi2B and Raspberry PiZeroW but it should work on other ARM devices & a couple of chan

Re: [M100] Dockerized VirtualT

2017-04-08 Thread Russell Davis
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's for server side apps only as it's used to sandbox development/production environments particularly programs written in Go and for running many different versions of an app at once, allowing upgrades of individual apps without effecting the rest of the system

Re: [M100] Dockerized VirtualT

2017-04-09 Thread Russell Davis
o be a trainwreck due to all the dependency issues. I should have been more clear. Mitch On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 9:05 PM Russell Davis <mailto:rkda...@burninghorse.com>> wrote: I wouldn't go as far as to say it's for server side apps only as it's used to sandbox deve

[M100] dead m102

2017-06-01 Thread Russell Davis
I know people have told these many, many times but my google-fu is failing me. I found my misplaced m102 and although it was working when I put it into storage I for some reason forgot to remove the batteries so they corroded a little. i've cleaned that up but it doesn't seem to power up and

Re: [M100] Wifi232 serial wfi modem

2017-06-16 Thread Russell Davis
A couple of months ago I knocked up a serial wifi thingy using an esp8266 and https://github.com/bozimmerman/Zimodem firmware. worked really well with the M100 https://twitter.com/ukscone/statuses/856233567285899264 bst rgrds Russell On 6/16/2017 1:49 PM, Ken Pettit wrote: Hey Guys, I t

Re: [M100] Model T equipment (NOT BY ME)

2017-07-28 Thread Russell Davis
I passed this info to some friends at Aberystwyth University and they made contact and drove down so it didn't end up at the council tip (there was a risk it was going to end up there). I have just been sent pictures of what was there. it's a nice haul that will keep them busy for months. it in

Re: [M100] Model T equipment (NOT BY ME)

2017-07-28 Thread Russell Davis
as shipping from the UK to the USA would be exorbitant i'm passing on everything except what will fit in the royal mail equiv of a medium USPS priority intl. one price shipping box. One of the PC-whatevers, a REX and maybe one of the NEC's or an M200 or if I can do a really good sad eyes at th

Re: [M100] Virtual cassette idea

2017-07-28 Thread Russell Davis
I keep messing around with Ted Rossin's circuit & s/w. the website is gone but i saved the files a few times and archive.org has a recent backup of the schematic https://web.archive.org/web/20170302024947/www.tedrossin.net46.net/Electronics/Pic/Schematics/CassetteInt.jpg if the circuit intere

[M100] Borked m102 keyboard

2017-08-13 Thread Russell Davis
Just noticed that the left shift key on my 102 seems to be borked. It seems to be the only key (only did a quick check) that isn't working right. sometimes if I put a bit of weight into it towards the top of the key it works but it's not always so. has anyone got any ideas or tips on how to fix

Re: [M100] Virtual T angst in Windows 10

2017-09-07 Thread Russell Davis
I think you need to delete the prefs file in %AppData%\Roaming\virtualt and that should do the trick bst rgrds Russell On 9/7/2017 10:23 PM, Philip Avery wrote: Hi All I've managed to corrupt VT on my Windows 10 machine & despite my attempts to remove & install it, it remains corrupted.

Re: [M100] VT on 64bit Win 7

2017-09-18 Thread Russell Davis
VirtualT from sourceforge works fine on my 64bit Win7 didn't actually have it on that machine before for some reason so it was a fresh install from a download 7.34minutes ago bst rgrds Russell On 9/18/2017 11:08 PM, Ken Pettit wrote: Not that I'm aware of.  I have a Windows 10 machine I just

Re: [M100] Build failure of VT

2017-11-09 Thread Russell Davis
i'd try building using FLTK you built from source. wget http://fltk.org/pub/fltk/1.3.4/fltk-1.3.4-source.tar.gz tar xzvf fltk-1.3.4-source.tar.gz cd fltk-1.3.4 ./configure --enable-localjpeg --enable-localzlib --enable-localpng --enable-gl=no make then cd to the virtualt directory make -f GNU

[M100] VirtualT patch (for Ken Pettit really)

2018-02-10 Thread Russell Davis
I was building VirtualT yesterday using gcc 6.3.0 (the default on the latest raspbian) and  got a couple of warnings and errors. fixed them so that VirtualT would compile cleanly. whether they are "correct" or not I don't know but everything seems ok. In case anyone or Ken are interested i've a

Re: [M100] VirtualT patch (for Ken Pettit really)

2018-02-11 Thread Russell Davis
_ Från: M100 [m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] för Russell Davis [rkda...@burninghorse.com] Skickat: den 10 februari 2018 21:31 Till: Model 100 Discussion Ämne: [M100] VirtualT patch (for Ken Pettit really) I was building VirtualT yesterday using gcc 6.3.0 (the default on the latest raspbian

Re: [M100] VirtualT patch (for Ken Pettit really)

2018-02-11 Thread Russell Davis
ngs on the file menu all the time with a segfault. I've been trying gcc 6.4.0 and 4.9.4 but neither seems OK. Jonathan jonathan.y...@mykopat.slu.se Från: M100 [m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] för Russell Davis [rkda...@burninghorse.com] Skickat

Re: [M100] VirtualT patch (for Ken Pettit really)

2018-02-12 Thread Russell Davis
o kill it. Jonathan jonathan.y...@mykopat.slu.se Från: M100 [m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] för Russell Davis [rkda...@burninghorse.com] Skickat: den 11 februari 2018 15:29 Till: m100@lists.bitchin100.com Ämne: Re: [M100] VirtualT patch (for Ken Pettit really) i just

Re: [M100] VirtualT patch (for Ken Pettit really)

2018-02-12 Thread Russell Davis
x27;ll re-visit it when I have more time for something like that. As long as I don't try and load anything it seems OK for me as well.  There's always windows!!! Jonathan jonathan.y...@mykopat.slu.se Från: M100 [m100-boun...@lists.bitchin1

Re: [M100] Have you built VirtualT on Linux lately?

2019-09-24 Thread Russell Davis
Just built it on raspbian (debian stretch) on a raspberry pi. had to use an older version of gcc (4.8) as it failed using gcc6. i'm using fltk-1.3.4. As i'm using an ARM board I had to make a few mods to the makefile and recall having to make a few mods to linking order and libraries linked tha

Re: [M100] Have you built VirtualT on Linux lately?

2019-09-24 Thread Russell Davis
[resent as used wrong email address to reply doh! :) ] yes I think i'm the only one. in the past i've posted the binaries& my script in my filedump and mentioned it on here but not for a few years. i've built it on every pi since the 1st (and actually before the pi even existed as i built and

Re: [M100] Have you built VirtualT on Linux lately?

2019-09-25 Thread Russell Davis
s who knows what side effects it might have :) ) and allows using gcc-6+ to build bst rgrds Russell On 9/24/2019 9:39 AM, r cs wrote: Thank you kindly! On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 9:36 AM Russell Davis mailto:rkda...@burninghorse.com>> wrote: Just built it on raspbian (debian st

Re: [M100] Have you built VirtualT on Linux lately?

2019-09-25 Thread Russell Davis
On 9/25/2019 7:07 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Why not objUnderMouse = NULL; because I entered the error into google and that's what it suggested That would be the proper fix, same semantics. Everywhere else in the module they are storing a pointer value in that... pointer. I just

Re: [M100] Have you built VirtualT on Linux lately?

2019-09-26 Thread Russell Davis
058 when messing around with the tools menu on occasion bst rgrds Russell On 9/25/2019 7:24 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 4:20 PM Russell Davis mailto:rkda...@burninghorse.com>> wrote: I just wanted a fix to let VirtualT build (reasonably) cleanly and

Re: [M100] Have you built VirtualT on Linux lately?

2019-09-26 Thread Russell Davis
his before in the past and remember I had spend a fair amount of time trying to debug it.  But being "ken's code" that I didn't write, I was basically just poking at it the dark and didn't figure anything out. Ken On 9/26/19 9:45 AM, Russell Davis wrote: As FLU ha

[M100] REX in T200

2019-10-02 Thread Russell Davis
I am now the proud owner of a TRS80 Pocket Computer & A T200 with REX. My finders fee for a stash of Tandy stuff I pointed a friend to and wanted to know if It's 1. Possible/OK to pull the REX from the T200 & bung it in one of my M100 or M102's instead? & 2. Would it be more use to leave it in

Re: [M100] REX in T200

2019-10-02 Thread Russell Davis
The PC-4. Same model I had in college. -Russell On 10/2/2019 7:55 PM, Randy Kindig wrote: Which pocket computer model? Randy Sent from my iPhone On Oct 2, 2019, at 6:56 PM, Russell Davis wrote: I am now the proud owner of a TRS80 Pocket Computer & A T200 with REX. My finders fee f

[M100] T200's rs232 port vs M102's

2019-10-04 Thread Russell Davis
Going slowly potty. I have a WiFI32 which is a wifi "modem" (esp8266 and some serial glue) and it works perfectly on the M102 with or without flow control set in stat (58N1D and 58N1E) but I can't get it to work to work on the T200. set STAT to 58N1ENN, 58N1DNN, 58N1DNI,... and in TERM if I typ

Re: [M100] T200's rs232 port vs M102's

2019-10-04 Thread Russell Davis
it makes a difference? steve On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:12 PM Russell Davis <mailto:rkda...@burninghorse.com>> wrote: Going slowly potty. I have a WiFI32 which is a wifi "modem" (esp8266 and some serial glue) and it works perfectly on the M102 with or without f

Re: [M100] T200's rs232 port vs M102's

2019-10-04 Thread Russell Davis
does your T200 work with just normal serial cable to a PC? My M100 was acting like this and it had a dead UART chip. I don't think REX is the cause but you can always pull it and see if it makes a difference? steve On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:12 PM Russell Davis mailto:

Re: [M100] T200's rs232 port vs M102's

2019-10-04 Thread Russell Davis
Just got told on twitter i have to mod the wifi32 for use with the T200. The m100/102 doesn't require rts/cts to be enabled on the modem but the t200 does. -Russell On 10/4/2019 4:12 PM, Russell Davis wrote: Going slowly potty. I have a WiFI32 which is a wifi "modem" (es

Re: [M100] T200's rs232 port vs M102's

2019-10-04 Thread Russell Davis
x27;s news.  not sure I believe that. On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 5:10 PM Russell Davis <mailto:rkda...@burninghorse.com>> wrote: Just got told on twitter i have to mod the wifi32 for use with the T200. The m100/102 doesn't require rts/cts to be enabled on the modem

Re: [M100] T200 Serial Port Test

2019-10-06 Thread Russell Davis
Thanks for doing that. while trying to workout what was going on I stumbled across https://www.web8201.net/files/LIBRARY_web8201/M100SIG/Lib-10-Tandy200/NULMDM.200 which said tie the RTS/CTS together for the T200 which seems to be what you worked out. -Russell On 10/6/2019 10:47 AM, Kurt M

Re: [M100] T200 Serial Port Test

2019-10-06 Thread Russell Davis
I recall seeing recently an asm listing on how to twiddle with the rs232 on the m100/102/200 but I can't recall where I saw it or find it in my browser history. Does anyone know what i'm talking about and know where to find it? -Russell On 10/6/2019 11:40 AM, Russell Davis wrote