+dhe Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 In case the source code to 4A DOS never shows up, does anyone have Mike Maksimik's FDOS Source Code, or another CLI? Yep, MDOS is great, but doesn't fit in a supercart! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrickmcmichael Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Mike Maksimik..."Froggy" out of CTIUG? He did some amazing stuff for the TI over the years. Is he still involved in the community? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 Nope... The Frogman has been our of the TI world for a long time. I think his last major project (and a yuge one) was getting the WHT SCSI controller working in MDOS. For many years after that, he kept up with the Birdwell Award. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 ok... found maksimiks fdos disk. But I can't get it to run in classic99 - can I get a little help here? fdos.dsk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 9 minutes ago, dhe said: ok... found maksimiks fdos disk. But I can't get it to run in classic99 - can I get a little help here? Seems to run for me - at least as far as it can. Does it expect to operate through an RS232 terminal? (Classic99 doesn't have RS232). From the README: Press 3 to select FDOS. Immediately, if you have a terminal connected to the RS232 interface, the version information will appear. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 Can someone run this on a real TI for me? I suspect, a terminal is supported if you have one, otherwise, I though it defaulted to the command line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flottmann1 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I made a short video, see here 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flottmann1 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 this Disc run with Classic99 ! Load with EA3: Load and Run DSK1.DOS/O then Warm Reset Commands: DIR, HELP ect. 4DOS.dsk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 2 hours ago, Flottmann1 said: I made a short video, see here Thanks - do you have an RS232 card in your system? Maybe my default return when the card is not present is wrong... (I should note it doesn't /check/ for the card, it just starts talking to it... probably trying to send the version string that the manual mentions.) Classic99 is stuck waiting for RS232/2 to go ready to transmit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flottmann1 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 7 minutes ago, Tursi said: Thanks - do you have an RS232 card in your system? Maybe my default return when the card is not present is wrong... (I should note it doesn't /check/ for the card, it just starts talking to it... probably trying to send the version string that the manual mentions.) Classic99 is stuck waiting for RS232/2 to go ready to transmit. yes, I have an RS232 in the PEB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 Wow.. Thanks for the work. I watched the video, but am a little confused. Do you get a prompt on both the console and the serial terminal, or just the serial terminal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flottmann1 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I load with EA3: DSK1. XIOS / OBJ then I do a reset and choose from the Home Screen 3 for F-DOS 1 Basic 2 Editor Assembler 3 For F-DOS V SC1.50 now DSK1. read and the prompt A> appears on the screen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 Thank you for the clarification. I thought Mike had made it a HIYW (Have It Your Way) program. If I want to use it on Classic99, I think I will need to comment out some of the RS232 portion (maybe a conditional compile) and recompile. Thank you again, for the try on REAL iron! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 4 hours ago, dhe said: Thank you for the clarification. I thought Mike had made it a HIYW (Have It Your Way) program. If I want to use it on Classic99, I think I will need to comment out some of the RS232 portion (maybe a conditional compile) and recompile. Thank you again, for the try on REAL iron! ? That's easy enough. Just load it up and when it hangs, go into the debugger and enter "C6522=13". That'll make it ignore the transmit ready bit and run fully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 I must not be doing this right. .026, E/A option 2, 3 load and run, filename DSK9.XIOS/OBJ, F9 to get back to main E/A menu, alt-= to go to menu, enter, choose option 3 For F-DOS. Wait 5 seconds - Edit, Debugger, in the debugger windows type C6522=13 - click apply. Warm reset doesn't seem to help either. Help, would like to understand what I'm doing wrong here. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 I can't say what happened on your end, but here's a video showing me doing it I'm giving lbry a try, they seem a little less annoying than YouTube without the hassle of running peertube myself. https://lbry.tv/@tursilion:1/patching-fdos:8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 Took a bit, but I tracked down, what was going on. I was implementing the instructions as given, but still failing. The clue to what was going on was in Flotmann1's video, when it hit DSK1. I re-watched, Tursi's Video, Tursi loaded fdos from DSK1. I pulled down an additional copy of Classic99, and put it, in it's own directory, and pointed it to DSK1. At that point ever worked as expected. I guess the unknown, was even though FDOS is loaded in to the supercart area, the program disk needs to be in dsk1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 As always, the debugger output will tell you what Classic99 is trying to do with the disk. You'll see that AUTOEXEC is hard-loaded from DSK1. When I try it from DSK9, it seems to continue despite not finding the AUTOEXEC, but true enough that it doesn't work. It's not immediately evident why... but even if I remove AUTOEXEC from DSK1 and run from DSK1 it still fails, so there's something that does not like the missing AUTOEXEC file. You can use the Classic99 "Automap DSK1" option (on the DSK9 disk configuration page) to run this from DSK9. This feature looks for "DSK1" as it loads data from disk, and automatically changes it to DSK9 (or whichever disk it's set on). It doesn't work on all programs (some dynamically build the string, sometimes the string is split across multiple records), but it does work on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 Thanks, that's a mighty nifty feature! One of the reasons, I was looking at FDOS, was it looks like the complete source is there, though I have not recompiled it yet. So, the theory being, if there something I don't like, I can fix it myself! ? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTransistor Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 On 4/29/2020 at 5:47 PM, dhe said: In case the source code to 4A DOS never shows up, does anyone have Mike Maksimik's FDOS Source Code, or another CLI? Yep, MDOS is great, but doesn't fit in a supercart! ? here's fdos's readme. You'll need to edit the autoexec file from the boot disk, and set it to 40 column mode. This will allow you to access the system from your TI-99, or classic99. I'm running it right now readmefdos.rtf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Force Command is also another option. It fits in a FinalGROM and it's better than 4A/DOS now and is currently being supported and improved by its creator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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