DavidC

Just gave this a quick go and it's looking good! I will mess around with it more when I get some free time to dig in. Thank You @senior_falconfor all your hard work. This truly is a GEM!! ( sorry, I couldn't resist.. )

I will take the super cycles if you still have them. PM incoming..

AWESOME!

Using regular XB (from my finalGROM), Typed CALL INIT:: CALL LOAD(9456,99,99). Then I loaded and ran a few simple XB programs. Edited and saved them, reran them. I quit out of XB, reloaded XB did the CALL PEEKS and the results were : 170 and 85 for the first one and 99 and 99 for the second. The results match what you expected.

Ok, loading, saving, mounting different disks, ect. Call PEEKV values are: 76 49 32 32 32 32

Yes sir. Call POKEV(16111,99,99) , ran the nano, loaded games, mounted different disks to volume 1, loaded programs, saved programs, quit out back to Title Screen. Loaded XB2.8, CAll PEEKV(16111,A,B) values are: 76 and 49.

Ok, after playing a couple disk loaded games, mounting different disks into vol. 1 of the nanoPEB, saving and loading small programs, newing and reloading. I quit to the master title screen, returned to XB2.8 and the values from the PEEK are: 76 and 49.

One time the screen was indeed black, with light blue font. The other 5 or six times I tried it, it was cyan and black. EDIT: I tried again without the Speech...this time it booted up with the red screen and blue font.

When I boot up xb 2.8 without the speech it boots normally, cyan screen, black letters, normal font. The call peek returns these: 29,214,247,20,87,213,85,1

Fair enough. I did not partake in a 8 hour debugging session. I did what senior_falcon requested. I loaded XB 2.8 GEM. I did this.. "Try this after starting XB: 10 FOR I=-24 TO -1::CALL LOAD(I,0)::NEXT I This will zero out the memory from >FFE8 to >FFFF Then see if FinalGrom and the nanoPEB work correctly. Assuming all works as it should, then check to see whether memory from -24 to -1 is still set to zero." I tried CALL CAT("DSK1.") and the disk catalog worked. I loaded a few programs and ran them. They worked. I "BYEd" out of xb2.8 loaded TML it loaded normally. I quit out of that and reloaded XB 2.8 GEM it loaded normally. I called PEEK(-8,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h):: PRINT a;b;c;d;e;f;g;h and got 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 as a result. Therefore, everything seems to work fine.

RXB 2015 FinalGROM replaced it.

What part of "yes, nano and FG seem to work fine" confused you the most?

Yes, nano and FG seem to work fine, and everthing is still zero. That was with speech disconnected. EDIT: Seems to work fine with speech as well.

Ok, this is weird. I disconnected my speech synth and plugged the nano directly in. Boot up XB 2.8 GEM and it boots normally. Cyan screen, black letters, normal font. I tried again with the speech hooked up....red screen, blue letters as in before. Disconnect the speech and try again...Cyan screen as is normal....

Fire up the TI, go into finalGROM menu and load xb2.8 GEM and I get the red screen. I type CALL LOAD(-2,244,0) and do the CALL PEEK the numbers I get are 25, 90, 246, 244, 103, 210, 244, 0 I am using a nanoPEB. Edit: If I power off the computer/nano the screen turns red again when I reboot, it does not remember the settings.

I still have to do the Call Load. I also have a nano connected..Yes I have a nanoPEB with the 32k. I dont know if this helps, but if I quit out and reload sometimes the screen colors are different. Like, each time its a different color.

Everything works here...Thank You!

Yes sir, that is what I did to get the original G.E.M to work. It does not work ( for me ) with 2.8 Does anyone have it up and running with their FinalGROM?

First of all I would like to thank @senior_falcon for all your hard work. This is truly incredible. I was able to get this up and running on Classic99 without issue. Has anyone loaded onto their FinalGROM? I tried, but all I get when I choose a option is a blank screen. The original GEM from post #1 works fine on my FG, I simply cannot get 2.8 to work on my FinalGROM. Any ideas?

You have a valid point. I had a TI99 with Extended Basic when I was a teenager. The CALL SOUND, CALL COLOR, CALL SPRITE, ect, was what I was used to. When I finally picked up a C64 I was well into my 30's. I was totally lost and confused when I tried to make simple animations. It was very frustrating. I think that is the major why I like Comal, and Simon's for that matter. It opens up the power of the 64 without the complexity of the POKES and PEEKS. Makes it fun to experiment and play around. At least for me.

Wow, the disk version 00.14 was freely distributed here in the US. When the cartridge did come out, Version 2.0 or whatever, I think that was around $125. As a matter of fact I was randomly going thru some .d64's of AHOY! magazine this afternoon and I was surprised to find they put Comal 00.14 on side two of their magazine disks. June, July and Aug. (or thereabouts) of the 1987 issues. Funny that I randomly found them after starting this thread...lol. It's a cool language. I dig it. I have the .CRT on my BackBit Cartridge along with pretty much everything else, Simons Basic, 64Forth, all kinds of stuff to mess around with, depending on my mood. Fun to play with.

Can't argue with that logic. It would of been cool if they bundled the cartridge though. The floppy disk that came with it was mostly tutorial stuff and demos I believe.

Yeah, you ain't wrong about that. The flat rate he payed for Commodore BASIC...Oh well. That was then, this is now. 30 years later...something like that.

Turtle graphics, way better than Terrapins LOGO, much faster in Comal. Sprite control without all the PEEKS and POKES. Why Commodore did not latch on and make Comal the standard language is beyond me.. Of course, I just discovered it myself about two weeks ago. Structured programming, this would of changed everything...but what do I know. Other than, I like it!

Yes sir, I saw that on Lemon as well. It is a very nice collection of Comal books, magazines and .D64 as well as a .CRT. It is missing that one book. It must be pretty rare. Edit. The .CRT has a lot of other good stuff on it as well...