TI to PC connection

[atrax27407]

Does anyone have their TI and PC connected via a direct cable? RS232 from the TI to one of the RS232 to USB cables (my laptop doesn't have an RS232 port). Results - favorable or not?

[RobertLM78]

Does anyone have their TI and PC connected via a direct cable? RS232 from the TI to one of the RS232 to USB cables (my laptop doesn't have an RS232 port). Results - favorable or not?

Very favourable.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00301C6C6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This is what I use with a Corcomp RS232.

[Opry99er]

I used to jam on some transfers USB to db9 to db25...

 

Check out some of my transfer vids on youtube. Some pretty decent step-by-step stuff in there, IIRC

[RobertLM78]

Definitely helpful stuff, Owen

[Dexter]

Does anyone have their TI and PC connected via a direct cable? RS232 from the TI to one of the RS232 to USB cables (my laptop doesn't have an RS232 port). Results - favorable or not?

Absolutely favorable!

Especially for trying a few or a single file, something you've assembled and want to try it out on the real thing.

 

I still have a COM port on my PC, but I guess it also works with a USB adapter.

Edited April 10, 2015 by Dexter

[Tursi]

I did when I had both handy, it worked fine for me too. My PC side connection was a USB->RS232 adaptor, the TI side was a TI RS232. I used it for text transfers, Telco XMODEM, and my own home-spun disk transfer.

[RobertLM78]

I did when I had both handy, it worked fine for me too. My PC side connection was a USB->RS232 adaptor, the TI side was a TI RS232. I used it for text transfers, Telco XMODEM, and my own home-spun disk transfer.

Never could get standard XMODEM working on TELCO, but Tibbs XMODEM works well. I've also found that archiving the files first speeds things up considerably.

[Shift838]

yup. it works good. I use MagicFM..

[+arcadeshopper]

I have done this with xmodem and telco on the ti side and a pc term on the pc side, magicfm on the ti side, cfhds1 and a standard ti rs232 card and also a corcomp rs232card (com1) and hdx software on the pc side, and I did the HDX DSR mod to my TI card and use that all the damn time and it's so easy it's silly to do anything else again

 

Greg

 

http://www.ti99-geek.nl/ (for the hdx project)

I sell the rs232 daughterboards on my website arcadeshopper.com

Edited April 10, 2015 by arcadeshopper

[Omega-TI]

I did the HDX DSR mod to my TI card and us that all the damn time and it's so easy it's silly to do anything else again

 

 

To quote Joel from the movie Risky Business, "HDX, there is no substitute."

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-COBUIBY16U

 

The HDX will make you feel like the end of this short clip in comparison to the slow drudgery of regular file transfers.

[Shift838]

Yes, HDX is definitely the best way to go for connecting the PC and TI together and the baud rate is much faster than what can typically be achieved via Telco or MagicFM.

 

Of course not everyone has a TI-RS232 card to be able to make this mod. But if you do, I would highly recommend it.

[mizapf]

Never could get standard XMODEM working on TELCO, but Tibbs XMODEM works well. I've also found that archiving the files first speeds things up considerably.

 

IIRC you own a Geneve - some time ago I wrote a GeneveOS tool called XMODEM (native application, no GPL mode! ), maybe this could be interesting for you?

[RobertLM78]

 

IIRC you own a Geneve - some time ago I wrote a GeneveOS tool called XMODEM (native application, no GPL mode! ), maybe this could be interesting for you?

Just on emulation do I have a Geneve - I wish I had a real one . But nevertheless, I'd still be interested though

[mizapf]

Just on emulation do I have a Geneve - I wish I had a real one . But nevertheless, I'd still be interested though

 

Ah, I thought you got one in the meantime ... OK, I'll give mine a big hug from you

 

Attached is the disk image with SENDX and RECEIVEX and their source codes.

 

I just remembered that there is an open issue with RECEIVEX that I should fix first before I can safely offer it to others. This bug once wiped sector 0 of my hard disk.

[RobertLM78]

...This bug once wiped sector 0 of my hard disk.

O_O

That's no good.

[Gazoo]

 

Ah, I thought you got one in the meantime ... OK, I'll give mine a big hug from you

 

Attached is the disk image with SENDX and RECEIVEX and their source codes.

 

I just remembered that there is an open issue with RECEIVEX that I should fix first before I can safely offer it to others. This bug once wiped sector 0 of my hard disk.

 

You know there's a way to mirror the bitmap (including sector 0) of a hard drive, don't you? I'm pretty sure it's an option in DU2K.

 

Gazoo

[mizapf]

If I remember correctly, the problem was that the PAB was incorrectly created. There is an XOP that turns a file name into a path name (e.g. FILENAME -> SCS1.SUBDIR.FILENAME), which you paste to the end of the PAB. I don't know why, but this one instant it failed, leaving only "SCS1." as the file name. Well, and then I opened that file and wrote the received data to it.

 

@Gazoo: At that point of time I was not aware of the bitmap mirror. Maybe because of the shock.

[+InsaneMultitasker]

You know there's a way to mirror the bitmap (including sector 0) of a hard drive, don't you? I'm pretty sure it's an option in DU2K.

 

Gazoo

Don't forget the 'mirror' program for MDOS that saves sector 0 and the bitmap to an executable file