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The monthly chatti call popped up on my calendar last night, so thought I would drop in. I had 9.4 version of Stuart's browser running under Rompage mode on the Geneve with a mouse. Browsing the website, and pointing to the meeting, I got to it fine and could see messages from days past. One other user was present at the time I was there. I went to leave a message and started typing in the area when I clicked the "box". As soon as I started typing, the mouse cursor disappeared, and I could not use the mouse to hit the submit for my text I was typing, nor would <ENTER> accept my input. I ended up having to abort and leave. Tried several times with the same results. Beery

Yeah, I too have GenASM, GenLINK, and MyWord as my predominant programs on the flash ramdisk with my path command setting the PFM+ as the first device to scan for programs. Beery

That would have been option 8.

Yes. Looking at what hardware configurations people have with the Geneve, predominantly with the TIPI or who might get a TIPI, if they had one.

Guess so.

Curious to the people that have various specific hardware configurations for their Geneve.

Great, glad to hear that. Beery

I think this fixed it. The ALLFILES was in another macro. FileCreator Version5.xlsm

In this case, the Excel spreadsheet makes over 200 files to handle 40, 64, and 80 column file area menu lists from the excel worksheet categorized filelists. And, due to the size/quantity of the file lists, these files can only be managed on a TIPI running the AfterHours BBS program. It would be really impractical to use PC-Transfer. I would not even want to consider writing a 4A program to do all the spreadsheet does as there is sorting, grabbing of file sizes, and then the actual file writing process. Beery

Wolfgang, check this file out. FileCreator Version4.xlsm

Sounds like I may need to downgrade Python as well. I'm out of town on business and will tackle this weekend.

Family first! Hang in there, prayers have been sent your way! Beery

Tim reported this issue back some time ago, and I just ran into this very same issue myself. In my case, I was copying files from a MFM drive over to a TIPI folder. There were files named !DOIT, !MAKEFILE, and $MAKE. When I tried to use TI99DIR to open the folder with these filenames, the directory reported the same error Tim previously reported. Renaming the files to remove the ! and $ and I could now read the directory. With Windows 10 looking at the folder, no problems. Beery

Glad to hear you recovered your hard drive image. Beery

You need to remove the AMS as well as the Flex cable card. The minimum cards you need have in your PEBox is the Geneve and a floppy disk controller. You can add a RS232, HFDC, SCSI, Memex Memory card, or a Myarc modified 512K card. There is a source for unmodified Myarc 512K cards if the guy hasn't finished selling out his supply (new). As far as Geneve memory you could in theory have around 1.4 MB of memory to play in the 4A environment using the map registers. However, you have to worry about memory conflicts if on the MDOS side of things you have configured ramdisks or have other "drivers" installed. It is easy to overcome, you You still have in a "normal" GPL mode environment, extra memory beyond the normal "32K" ram space more ram that is immediately available to GPL without special coding to find the memory. I took a quick look and I think you may have somewhere around 80K of ram you could use besides using the 128K/192K VDP ram for use. Beery

I just did a search on my bbs for the search term SWAN and did not find the file. Not sure where it may be found. I do know I have in my BIBLE program, code to display a Myart image. It is in the BIBLE directory, file BIBLEMYART. It has everything I think you are seeking to display in low and high resolution. I have copied the code below as a TIFILES image DIS/VAR 80 file. If you are looking for the swan specifically, I have an 8K dump of the Eprom plus a few lines from the eprom source that sets the video registers and copies the 8K image to VDP. Beery BIBLEMYART

Well, before I installed the Python updates and the Java files, I tried running the MAME Install and it stuck at 3% and it never proceeded further. I also have a Java 8 Update installed which I think is required for a specific program, so I did not uninstall it. Beery

Windows 10, 64-bit. And installed Python 3.9.0 amd64.exe and jdk-15.01_windows-64_bin.exe

Likely not this thread, the earlier thread arcadeshopper pointed out, or a new thread announcing it. That's just my opinion though........

Things will likely be announced here first would be my guess in the F18 MK2 topic area.

Ooeygui is not working for me. If I pick devicenames, the first disk does not have a path and the xml shows the same thing. I was configuring for a GenMod Geneve with Myarc HFDC. I installed ooeygui hen installed the latest version of Python and the Java JRE. Also, when I asked ooeygui to install the latest version of Mame to a newly created directory, it got stuck at 3% and went no further. Beery

I'm not sure which DSR you are using, but keep in mind Matt's DSR code has some conditional assemblies on whether it is running under emulation or not in the tipi-io.a99 and the vdp-io.a99 code besides the change in ports. Beery

I was playing (briefly) with the PSYSTEM and I thought the PSYSTEM may be running as it should. Now, as far as compatibility with P-Code, no idea. As far as the SNUG HSGPL card, seriously doubt any separate card for Groms is going to work as things were hardwired in the gate array I think would prevent that. As far as having 8K ram space at >6000 to >7FFF, that is already there. You can load the Editor/Assembler module and you have the 8K of memory there already. Beery

OK, here is the spreadsheet update, V3. Let me know if you have any issues. Beery FileCreator Version3.xlsm

Wolfgang, I got to a good break point on my other project, and pulled up the Excel sheet and looked at the VB code. I found where the problem was being generated. Why the code worked for 68 of the 71 sets of 3 files, and not those three, have me puzzled. Either way, I think i have the solution. Before I post the fix, have you updated your Excel Spreadsheet and/or added files beyond what I distributed? If so, please zip of the files and your spreadsheet and I will work from your spreadsheet configuration. Beery