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I concur as well. I think if they are moved, the links may break, but I don't know for sure.

I would use the Myarc HFDC with the Geneve and hook up any floppies to it. With PFM, you will need to split MDOS into two files for V 6.50, and for the upcoming 7.2+ Version, it will be split into three files. The larger image (120K) loads into the PFM, with the other two files executed from the command line interpreter. If you don't have a SCSI, IDE, or TIPI in your system, I am not sure there is a need to upgrade beyond V6.50 at present. I don't know that you can use the tripletech card, but you can use the rave speech card adapter. Depends if you have anything that would use speech. Myarc 512K card needs modification. I did the modification on my card. Not easy, but not overly difficult except my eyesight is no longer what it used to be for the fine soldering needed. Any RS232 card is ok. Beery

Unless he has moved them, the guy on ebay that bought out Dhein's. He had several when I bought mine.

It may also be a time to get for yourself a Myarc 512K card and modify it for use for the Geneve. Beery

Or, you can do the following: COPY CON AUTOEXEC1 TIMODE <CTRL Z> At the prompt, then type: &AUTOEXEC1 That will run the new DIS/VAR 80 file as an AUTOEXEC style file and accept the TIMODE command. Beery

Or, is the TIPI a peripheral of a PI with the Geneve a peripheral of the TIPI? There's two computers there?

It is an addon to the other TI-99/4A peripherals, but not to the actual TI-99/4A itself.

I prefer keeping things as they are, but if the Geneve is going to be separate, I would really prefer to see a Geneve Only area and if it is possible, to start moving topic threads over to the specific Geneve thread if it does not break links, etc. Beery

Encryption was not done in the PAB, rather, a separate program that was released to be used by everyone. There was also an unencrypt program someone wrote and released as well. The first byte or two were modified of the program image file. It's been awhile, so I do not know how the flag(s) were arranged. Off the top of my head, I do not recall if it is in the DSR where the unencryption code was embedded, or whether the encrypted programs were only loadable from the CLI and it unencrytped the program. Beery

There are programs that use the encryption. Beery

Good question. Version 1.00 released by Tony years ago, had various menu options for booting from multiple devices such as SCSI and got rid of the swan display. Actually, Tony’s screen is a graphic screen as well of his creation. Version 0.98 of the eprom supported the HFDC and DSK loading with a Swan. Version 0.99 that I have now, supports the TIPI, HFDC, and DSK, and does not at this time have SCSI support. As it lacks features of the 1.00, but is is a small upgrade from 0.98, thus that is the reason. If IDE and SCSI are added, I would suspect it would be something > 1.00 release of the Eprom. For now, the emphasis has been to get something for the TIPI users of the Geneve that do not have any kind of hard drive storage capability and wants to boot from the device. Beery

Pressing F5 for Rompage mode or <ENTER> from the GPL Interpreter screen will still take you to the menu screen you are seeing. What is different, is how the Geneve memory is mapped in the mapper registers. The only difference is basically you are using the DSR’s on the cards in your PEBox and not the Geneve master DSR whenever a device is accessed. This is how you can access WDS1 instead of HDS1, or access the TIPI.TIPICFG program.

It is the <ESC> key to exit from the GPL interpreter screen back to MDOS. Now, if you hit CTRL-SHIFT-SHIFT at the MDOS prompt or in a MDOS application, you will reboot the Geneve.

CTRL-SHIFT-SHIFT to get back to the GPL screen.

And I just got a working version with no Swan display overwrites on what I will call a 0.99 eprom and a new LOAD-SYS file for the TIPI that will autotrack loading of TIP1.AUTOEXEC when MDOS loads. The present eprom first tests for ramdisk then HFDC, before it then looks for the TIPI. Efforts tomorrow will be to see if I can add IDE and SCSI to that eprom while keeping the Swan.

Pretty good video to get Samba up thought that is not quite what I am wanting to do. I'm anticipating on of two things he did not discuss. I want to create a share on TIPI-1 that TIPI-4 can see, and vice versa if I am doing a catalog/directory on TIPI. I would like to be able to use DM2K and CATALOG folder TIPI.TIPI4. on TIPI #1 to see files on TIPI #4. Beery

Got a question to determine if this is possible. I've got multiple TIPI's, which I will give names as TIPI1 and TIPI4 in this example. Everything is wireless through the same router. Is there a way TIPI1 can map to TIPI4 or to a folder on TIPI4? Right now, I am saving things on TIPI4, using Windows to copy that file and then paste it to TIPI1.

Keeper of the MDOS manual, no. If anyone has anything beyond a PDF of the original manual, I am not aware. Jim Uzzell released his updates to various pages of the Advanced Basic Manual but nothing along the lines of a full text editable manual I have seen. I have attached the pages Jim updated to this message. MYBMAN.ZIP

Geneve programs can be encrypted, not MDOS, to prevent sector editing of the program.

Good. Just had dinner and was reading everything. Good luck. Beery

Got the newest SCSI2SD V6. Actually two of them but one SCSi card as I thought I had a V5 and the V6 features interested me. Anyway, it got me to move it over the SCSI card from the TI to the Geneve. Beery

I'm sure the instructions are in one of the 9640NEWS folders on ftp.whtech.com. The other option, is to call (Telnet) Wolhess's BBS at mytbox99.ddns.net, port 61643 on his BBS, and do a search for 32K on his file search. You should be able to find it that way.

Is the upgrade something you do not feel comfortable doing yourself and/or sending it to someone to do for you if you don't have the skills? Or, just don't want to touch something that is not broken? I ask, because the next release of MDOS is going to have the TIPI support and if you don't have any kind of mass storage device, the TIPI is a great tool to invest. Beery

I like the walls, however the forrest and trees, can't say I like all the black against the background of the trees. Not sure if it would be better as a brown or blue at tree level, but definitely not black for the tree background as well as the sky. My 2 cents.

There were a number of Video XOP bugs Clint squashed around the 2.21 timeframe. Are you not able to run 6.50?