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rea 12-17 nor rea 20-21 nor rea 23-24 nor rea 26 nor rea 37-38 nor ************ Topic 12 Tue Dec 28, 1993 B.KIRKLAND (Forwarded) Sub: "Reading" a modem. I'm trying to make a short dial routine for a program, and need some help with how to read what the modem is "saying". 2 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 12 Message 1 Tue Dec 28, 1993 B.KIRKLAND (Forwarded) I don't know if this is the right place for it, but here it goes. I've made a database that has a dial routine built inn. What I need is to find out how to tell whether the line is ringing, a voice answered, or i the line is bussy. I know this is in on of the registers, but I can not figure out how to read the value. Ex.: I know that the ATXx is where this would be, and that ATX3 means the line is bussy, but how can I make my program read this. BTW, I need to know how to do this in BASIC, not ML. Bob. ------------ Category 5, Topic 12 Message 2 Tue Dec 28, 1993 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] (Forwarded) Bob: You don't say what modem you are doing this for. If it is a Hayes compatible, you can set the messages for VERBOSE with the command: AT V1. This will return the messages (at least for my modem) like BUSY, CONNECT ##00, NO ANSWER, RING, etc. From BASIC, you would open channel 2 for the desired baud rate (remember BASIC is going to have a HARD time handling speeds above 300 baud, tho maybe not for messages coming from the modem itself) then read that channel (channel 2) looking for the above messages, though 1 character at a time. ex: get#2,a$ Build your string, stripping hi bits (and %01111111) control chars or other garbage, until you find the carriage return. When you find that, compare what you got against what you were looking for. To determine that there is a carrier, check bit 4 of 56577 (for user port modems only, and you have to know the expected state due to the fact that CBM modems do things backwards from Hayes compatibles at this bit) After you determine this bit is set (or not set, depending on the modem) you can start checking for the messages as above. If you don't get a CONNECT ##00 message (ex: CONNECT 2400) within a reasonable amount of time, someone has probably answered the phone as opposed to a modem, or the line is busy, which would have sent that message. For user port modems that don't have messages like that (read that as 300 baud modems), you have to do a lot more work to dial, etc. but I assume you don't need all that info. To test the other stuff, the carrier bit is the same. There is also a RIng indicator bit, but I believe that may be for incoming calls. Not sure right now about that as I've never used it. However, these days, you are much better to go for the modem's response strings. And if you are planning SwiftLink compatibility, that applies even more. Carrier on a SwiftLink, however, is tested at bit 6 oof one of its own registers. See... it never gets any easier and one question leads to 17 more. :) GO> I know that the ATXx is where this would be, and that ATX3 GO> means the line is bussy, but how can I make my program read GO> this Actually, the AT Xx commands are sent to the modem, not read from it. The commands you mention here only tell the modem how to respond to those conditions. My suggestions above about reading the modem channel remain the same. I believe I use AT X4 in my programs, but of course you would have to use what your modem supports. ------------ ************ Topic 13 Fri Dec 24, 1993 A.HALE2 (Forwarded) Sub: FIND DRIVE TYPE How do I find the drive type without reading disk directory? 5 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 13 Message 1 Fri Dec 24, 1993 A.HALE2 (Forwarded) What I want to do is pole the drive and have it tell the program if it is a 1541, 1571, 1581, CMD or whatever without having to access a disk. ------------ Category 5, Topic 13 Message 2 Sun Dec 26, 1993 S.EYRSE (Forwarded) Here is a fast little basic program that I have used to "set" other programs to the correct diver type so the Dir. track and sector would be right. As listed it will print out the number of the drive so you can check yours and I would think even hard drives to get the needed numbers. 10 D$=8 :rem Drive # 20 open 1,D$,15 30 print#1,"M-R"chr$(0)chr$(192)chr$(1) 40 Get#1,A$ 45 rem if A$=192 its a 1581 50 rem if A$=151 its a 1541 60 rem so if non of these it would be a 1571 70 Print ASC(A$) 80 close1:end What were doing is Reading ONE byte from the disks memory at $C000 hex. Hope this helps..if you want it in ML it would be easy enough to change. Look in the back of your disk drive book. Steve..:) ------------ Category 5, Topic 13 Message 3 Sat Jan 01, 1994 CMD-DOUG (Forwarded) Search the libs using the keyword POLL. That should get you the file number for the POLL DEVS program, which I'm sure I've uploaded in the past. It should handle all the common Commodore and CMD devices. ------------ Category 5, Topic 13 Message 4 Thu Jun 23, 1994 CBM-DENNIS at 01:29 EDT On my 1541 test demo disk, and on several of the transactor disk's is a basic program written my Jim Butterfield that will detect all the drives from a 2040 to a 1581. I don't think it will detect a CMD hard drive at this time though. C-YA, Dennis ------------ Category 5, Topic 13 Message 5 Thu Jun 23, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 16:49 EDT Check the libs to see if my POLL DEVS.BAS program is in there. It does this for most common drives. ------------ ************ Topic 14 Thu Dec 09, 1993 J.SERAFINO (Forwarded) Sub: two-byte binary to deciaml conversion Well, another routine I could use is a more efficient number conversion routine... the two-byte binary to deciaml routine in menuette is a dinosaur. 3 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 14 Message 1 Thu Dec 09, 1993 C128.JBEE (Forwarded) In library #33 you can find old Star Board Journals on binary decimal conversions. ^ BCD ------------ Category 5, Topic 14 Message 2 Fri Dec 10, 1993 M.RANDALL2 [Maurice] (Forwarded) ;This is not necessarily the best way to convert a ;two byte value into an ascii decimal string, but it ;is the way that I do it in geoSHELL if it helps any. ;These two routines are accessible in geoSHELL's ;jump table for external commands to use. All the ;routines in geoSHELL's jump table are described in ;detail in the geoSHELL Programmer's Development Package, ;due to be released into the public domain soon. ;this routine will take the 16-bit value in r8 and convert ;it into a five byte ascii decimal string. AsciiString will ;contain the string. r4 =$0a ;substitute any location for these r4L =$0a ;variables. These are normal to GEOS. r4H =$0b r8 =$12 ByteWZAsc: ;enter at this point to leave in ;leading zeroes. lda #0 .byte $2c ByteNZAsc: ;enter at this point to strip ;leading zeroes. lda #128 sta StripZFlag lda #'0' ldx #4 ;first fill the string with ;ascii zeros. 5$ sta AscString,x dex bpl 5$ ldx #0 ;start with the left-most digit. 10$ MoveW r8,r4 ;copy r8 to r4 20$ sec lda r4L subtract a high byte and low byte sbc lowConTable,x ;from the two tables from r4. sta r4L lda r4H sbc highConTable,x sta r4H bcc 30$ ;branch once r4 is smaller than ;the value from the tables. MoveW r4,r8 ;copy r4 back to r8. inc AscString,x ;increment a digit in our string. bne 20$ ;branch always. 30$ inx ;increment to point to the next digit. cpx #5 ;are we done? bne 10$ ;if not, then branch back to reload r4. bit StripZFlag ;do we want to strip leading zeros? bpl 50$ ;branch if not. ldy #0 ;start with the first digit. 40$ lda AscString,y cmp #'0' ;is it a zero? bne 50$ ;branch if not. lda #' ' ;replace it with a space. sta AscString,y iny cpy #4 ;don't mess with the last digit in ;case the number was zero. bne 40$ ;branch if not done yet. 50$ rts AscString: .byte "00000" .byte 0 ;terminate the string. lowConTable: .byte [10000,[1000,[100,[10,[1 highConTable: .byte ]10000,]1000,]100,]10,]1 StripZFlag: .block 1 ;Hope this helps, Maurice Randall ------------ Category 5, Topic 14 Message 3 Sun Dec 26, 1993 S.EYRSE (Forwarded) If your working in Geos V2.0 for the 64 there is a built in program to do this called PutDecimal which will change a "word" 16 bit hex number into a five place ASCII number. As setup it will then fall thru to PutChar to print this number on the screen. Geos uses it to print various things out for dialog boxes and for Calc..ect. the full code starts with a jsr to $C184. But if you enter at $E8EC you just get the conversion with the ASCII number text left at locations $44 and up. Register r3 has the # of characters to be printed out. Or used as you want. If anyone is interested I'll write it down and post here Steve. ------------ ************ Topic 15 Tue Dec 07, 1993 D.SCHWARTZ (Forwarded) Sub: C-64 Hard Drive Project Has anyone downloaded the huge file that tells how to build an experimental hard drive adapter for the C-64 using a Western Digital WX1 or WX2 IBM/Clone hard drive interface? 2 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 15 Message 1 Tue Dec 07, 1993 D.SCHWARTZ (Forwarded) Yes... I know that even if I build it I won't be able to use it with existing software without modifications, but I still want to play with it... Has anyone built a working unit? If so, please give details... Can anyone tell me where I can find a Western Digital WX1 or WX2 hard drive controller? Thanks... ------------ Category 5, Topic 15 Message 2 Wed Dec 08, 1993 C128.JBEE (Forwarded) I downloaded the file but never bothered playing around with it. I would say go out and buy a copy of Computer Shopper and start calling all the HD suppliers/repairers that have toll free numbers. I have had good dealings with J.B. Tech. ------------ ************ Topic 16 Sat Dec 04, 1993 J.SERAFINO (Forwarded) Sub: ML division routine needed I need a quick ML division routine that will divide a 16 bit number by an 8 bit number, and return a 16 bit answer plus remainder. 6 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 16 Message 1 Sat Dec 04, 1993 J.SERAFINO (Forwarded) any help on this would be appreciated. ------------ Category 5, Topic 16 Message 2 Sat Dec 04, 1993 CMD-DOUG (Forwarded) Well, this routine actully lets you divide a 16 bit number by another 16 bit number, but since you can zero out the high byte in the dividend, who cares? Store the number to be divided into DIVNUM, and the number you are dividing with into DIVDEN. The answer will show up in ANSWER (of course), and the remainder in WORK. This bit manipulation method, btw, is lots faster than using the subtraction method. Oh, and don't forget - division by zero isn't legal, so check for that first. ; Variables ;------------------ DIVNUM .BYT $00 .BYT $00 DIVDEN .BYT $00 .BYT $00 WORK .BYT $00 .BYT $00 ANSWER .BYT $00 .BYT $00 COPYN .BYT $00 .BYT $00 COUNTR .BYT $00 ; START LDA #16 ; Set counter for 16 bit division STA COUNTR ; LDA #0 ; Clear work and answer vars LDY #3 ZLOOP STA WORK,Y DEY BPL ZLOOP ; LDA DIVNUM ; Copy the number to be divided STA COPYN LDA DIVNUM+1 STA COPYN+1 ; DIVLP JSR MVOVER ; It all starts here DEC COUNTR BNE DIVLP RTS ; MVOVER ASL COPYN ROL COPYN+1 ROL WORK ROL WORK+1 RTS ; DIVIDE LDA WORK+1 CMP DIVDEN+1 BEQ LOOKMR BCS SUBTR ; FIXANS ROL ANSWER ROL ANSWER+1 RTS ; LOOKMR = * LDA WORK CMP DIVDEN BCC FIXANS ; SUBTR = * JSR FIXANS SEC LDA WORK SBC DIVDEN STA WORK LDA WORK+1 SBC DIVDEN+1 STA WORK+1 RTS ; .END ------------ Category 5, Topic 16 Message 3 Sun Dec 05, 1993 C128.JBEE (Forwarded) Thank you Doug :) ------------ Category 5, Topic 16 Message 4 Sun Dec 05, 1993 J.SERAFINO (Forwarded) thanks, doug. T D You've always got just teh right routine. he ------------ Category 5, Topic 16 Message 5 Sun Dec 05, 1993 J.SERAFINO (Forwarded) Well, I tried it but it doesn't work. It seems that the "divide" subroutine is never called by the main portion of the routine... any ideas? ------------ Category 5, Topic 16 Message 6 Sun Dec 05, 1993 CMD-DOUG (Forwarded) OOPS!!! Add a JSR DIVIDE right after the JSR MVOVER! Here is the whole thing, corrected! ; Variables ;------------------ DIVNUM .BYT $00 .BYT $00 DIVDEN .BYT $00 .BYT $00 WORK .BYT $00 .BYT $00 ANSWER .BYT $00 .BYT $00 COPYN .BYT $00 .BYT $00 COUNTR .BYT $00 ; START LDA #16 ; Set counter for 16 bit division STA COUNTR ; LDA #0 ; Clear work and answer vars LDY #3 ZLOOP STA WORK,Y DEY BPL ZLOOP ; LDA DIVNUM ; Copy the number to be divided STA COPYN LDA DIVNUM+1 STA COPYN+1 ; DIVLP JSR MVOVER ; It all starts here JSR DIVIDE DEC COUNTR BNE DIVLP RTS ; MVOVER ASL COPYN ROL COPYN+1 ROL WORK ROL WORK+1 RTS ; DIVIDE LDA WORK+1 CMP DIVDEN+1 BEQ LOOKMR BCS SUBTR ; FIXANS ROL ANSWER ROL ANSWER+1 RTS ; LOOKMR = * LDA WORK CMP DIVDEN BCC FIXANS ; SUBTR = * JSR FIXANS SEC LDA WORK SBC DIVDEN STA WORK LDA WORK+1 SBC DIVDEN+1 STA WORK+1 RTS ; .END Sorry about leaving that out!!! :) ------------ ************ Topic 17 Thu Jun 24, 1993 J.SCHWARTZ1 [DuneWalker] (Forwarded) Sub: Controlling cassette port... Needed: info on how to write to the cassette port. 3 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 17 Message 1 Thu Jun 24, 1993 J.SCHWARTZ1 [DuneWalker] (Forwarded) Does anybody know how to control the cassette port? For example, is there a "poke" to turn the cassette motor on (and off again)? And is it the same poke, value for both the C128 and C64? Also, does anybody here know how much current that circuit (the cassette motor power circuit) can handle? Many thanx for info/insights/advice, etc. ------------ Category 5, Topic 17 Message 2 Mon Dec 06, 1993 C.YOUNG36 [Charlie] (Forwarded) I don't usually spend my measly 4 hours per month helping people, but I guess I have the Christmas spirit this month or something. Why does anyone pay to help others? Helping should be free! > Does anybody know how to control the cassette port? Yes, I know how. Figured it out when writing a Morse Code Keyer program. > For example, is there a poke" to turn the cassette motor on (and off again)? Well it is that simple only under certain conditions. 1. JiffyDos is installed and enabled. 2. You are not running anything that switches ROM out. In which case you can poke1,23 to turn the cassette motor on, and poke1,55 to turn the cassette motor off. > And is it the same poke, value for both the C128 and C64? Don't think it would be the same for C128 in 128 mode. Should work with a C128 in C64 mode. In case you don't know that the above conditions will always be true, there is a way to turn the cassette motor on and off anyway. Download my file CASSMOTOR.SDA which includes a machine language routine and sample basic program to turn the motor on and off. > Also, does anybody here know how much current that circuit (the cassette motor power circuit) can handle? Don't know exactly. Enough to run a datasette -- how much current does that take? 100 Ma maybe? Should be enough current to drive a nice size 6V relay. Send me EMAIL if you have questions -- don't usually spend my 4 hours/month doing this. Charlie ------------ 5 ************ Topic 20 Wed Mar 23, 1994 B.MASSE at 10:13 EST Sub: what is the poke to coldstart the 128 f I need the poke to reset my 128 and ramlink from a within a compiled machine language program.. I want to exit the program and have my auto menu screen come on and have all my JIFFYDOS commands activated.... HELP! 2 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 20 Message 1 Thu Mar 24, 1994 H.HERMAN1 at 01:32 EST BM, In Basic a sys65341 will do the deed! Howie ------------ Category 5, Topic 20 Message 2 Thu Mar 24, 1994 B.MASSE at 02:00 EST Thanks Howie... That was just what I needed... it worked like a charm B ------------ ************ Topic 21 Mon Apr 11, 1994 J.STEPHENSO1 [Jimbo] at 02:28 EDT Sub: LYNX format What is the LYNX format(s)? 4 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 21 Message 1 Mon Apr 11, 1994 J.STEPHENSO1 [Jimbo] at 02:35 EDT My local BBS's seem to have a fixation for LYNXing files. I'm tired of having to copy a file to a blank 1541 disk and swap devices just to open these "archives." What is the format for the various LYNX flavors? When I used a sector editor I got most of it, but there were some extra, unaccounted for bytes in the header. I downloaded LYNX.FIX, or something like that, but all it does is read the header, grab the string "LYNX xx..." and print out "Use LYNX xx to deLYNX." Duh! Are there indeed differences in the different versions? If you didn't guess, I want to write something that will read a LYNX file from ANY drive and deLYNX to ANY drive (like GEOPACK for GEOS), and maybe provide an option for a selective deLYNX. And if this particular wheel has already been invented, let me know, please? Thank you, Jimbo ------------ Category 5, Topic 21 Message 2 Tue Apr 12, 1994 CBM-MARK at 21:01 EDT Jimbo, have you tried this version of LYNX by chance? ********************************* Number: 10473 Name: ULTIMATE LYNX 3 Address: A.ALLEN Date: 921115 Approximate # of bytes: 34560 Number of Accesses: 33 Library: 22 Description: This deLYNXer will work with almost any drive there is. 1540/41/71/81, SFDs, etc. It will not work with native mode CMD partitions. [ 138 CMD BLKS:PRG ] Keywords: lynx,lnx,xfer --------------------------------- I have no idea if it will deLYNX all versions but as you can see it reportedly works with any disk drive. Mark ------------ Category 5, Topic 21 Message 3 Wed Apr 13, 1994 J.STEPHENSO1 [Jimbo] at 00:12 EDT CM>reportedly works with any disk drive. With the exception of CMD native mode partitions :/ I use a HD-200, a FD- 4000, and a RAMLink, and avoid emulation partitions like the plague. I *like* lots of room on a disk :) Besides, I do have some LYNX utilities lying around, and use them after transfering the LYNX files to the 1571 (slooooow...). I'd just like to know what differences there are, if any, and what the header description is, a la file 8343 (lists header formats for popular compression schemes), so I can write my own utility (it's more fun that way ...). But thanks for the suggestion. I'll see if it works with, say, a 1541 partition on the RAMLink. Jimbo P.S. How does it feel to be able to drive a luxury car solely from the money I've spent at your place ;) ------------ Category 5, Topic 21 Message 4 Wed Apr 13, 1994 C128.JBEE at 03:58 EDT >J.STEPHENSO1 [Jimbo] at 00:12 EDT >With the exception of CMD native mode partitions :/ I use a HD-200, >a FD- 4000, and a RAMLink, and avoid emulation partitions like the plague. So do I! Only ones I still use much are 1581 because of CP/M. ------------ 5 ************ Topic 23 Sat Apr 23, 1994 D.BOBER [RENTaLASER] at 16:47 EDT Sub: C64 Fonts How do you load the fonts you create with a font editor for use with your own BASIC programs? 14 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 1 Sat Apr 23, 1994 D.BOBER [RENTaLASER] at 16:51 EDT I created a FONT with the font editor I download here. Now I want to use that FONT in my BASIC program. The font has been saved to disk. But when I attempt to load it with my program, I get an "out of memory error". I'm new at this! How do you do IT? How do load the font into memory so can use it.? :) ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 2 Sun Apr 24, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 02:37 EDT DB: Load the font at the start of your program using either BLOAD if you are using a C128, or load "file",8,1 if using a C64. After you load the file, if you are doing the load from the keyboard, type NEW and press RETURN. If you are doing the load from within your program you probably don't have the problem. The problem is that your pointers are being fooled by the load. NEW will reset them. I assume you also know that it will take more than loading a font to actually use it, particularly if you are working with 80 column mode on the 128. Ex: (if memory serves ;) 10 a = a + 1 : if a = 1 then load "font",8,1:rem from program mode from immediate mode: load "font",8,1 new load "basic prog",8 run ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 3 Sun Apr 24, 1994 D.BOBER [RENTaLASER] at 18:11 EDT Well..........No. I didn't know that it will take mor e than just loading a font to actually use it..........;) I just assumed that loading a new font would "replace" the existing CBM Font. I thought the CBM font was copied from ROM into memory. How do you use the font after loading it? Is there a routine/utility here in the Libs I can use? See, I told ya I was new at this ;) thanks for all you help. Douglas Bober ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 4 Sun Apr 24, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 18:58 EDT DB: DB> assumed that loading a new font would "replace" the existing DB> CBM Font. I thought the CBM font was copied from ROM into DB> memory That is true only of the 128 80 column mode, and even then there is move involved in it than just 'loading' it in because you have to load it and then get it into the VDC chip. You haven't said if you are using a C64 or a C128. On the C64 (and the C128 in 64 mode) you have to load the font into RAM then tell the C64 where to look for your new definitions. There is a bit involved in doing it tho it is not that hard. There are only certain locations at which your font can live in memory, and it is going to take some memory away from your BASIC program. You should find out where the font loads in memory (get the first 2 bytes if the file. multiply the 2nd times 256 and add it to the first and that is the load address). According to the C64 programmer's reference guide: 'The best place to put your character set for use with BASIC while experimenting is beginning at 12288($3000 in hex). This is done by POKEing the low 4 bits of location 53272 with 12.....' Ex: poke 53272,(peek(53272)and240)+12 To protect your character set from your BASIC program, change the top of memory pointers: poke 52,48:poke 56,48:clr I believe this should get you in business. There are other locations at which to put your font if you want to twiddle with the bank the VIC looks at, etc. but for just starting out, this should get you moving. You *may* find that your font loads at 12288 already, in which case to use these pokes, all you should have to do is : load "fontname",8,1 then do the above pokes and load your BASIC program and run it. Note, though, that this is probably a very limiting memory configuration, but it should at least get you started. :) DB> See, I told ya I was new at this Everyone started out like that! :) I hope this gets you moving in the right direction. Let us know how you make out, and if you have any other questions/problems, just holler. egb ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 5 Sun Apr 24, 1994 D.BOBER [RENTaLASER] at 22:20 EDT OK! Now we're getting somewhere! I wrote a short program, following your instructions and it worked. However, when I added it to my program, the screen crshed. It filled up with with junk. The problem, I think, is the size of my program. It is 107 Blocks long... Where can I relocate the font? Also, I'm planning to Compile the program when it's complete. Probably use BASIC 64 by Abacus. Guess I'll have to relocate the font again. This is fun! ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 6 Tue Apr 26, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 08:36 EDT Sorry to take so long getting back to you. If I don't do my 'out' stuff immmediately it gets lost. :( Anyway, here is what you are going to have to do, and this is book stuff, not stuff I've done in a lot of years. And I can't guarantee it will work with your compiler, tho if it is as configurable as BASIC 128, it might work ok. Here is what I'd try if I were you.... poke 56578,peek(56578)or 3:rem set bits 0 and 1 to outputs poke 56576,(peek(56576)and 252) or 0:rem video bank 3 starts at 49152 poke 53272,(peek(53272)and 15) or 32:rem screen to 51200 poke 648,8:rem tell screen editor what we are doing too poke 53272,(peek(53272)and 240) or 0:rem char set to 49152 All of the above will also require that you change the load address of your font to 49152.... which means a sector editor and changing the 1st 2 bytes of the file to 00 192 respectively. I would make a copy of the file if I were you to make sure this all works. I've never put a character set up there, but I believe it should work ok for you. I seem to recall that you can put a character set under the kernal at $e000 and the VIC can see it, but I can't say that with 100% certainty. Even if true, you will still have to change the video bank to bank 3. See, the more you want to do, the more involved it gets. I also thought of a way you could do it that might even be easier, but you would have to raise the start of BASIC, and I'm not sure BASIC 64 would tolerate that. But if you did, you could put your font where BASIC starts and leave the video bank alone. I have done that before I'm pretty sure. ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 7 Wed Apr 27, 1994 D.BOBER [RENTaLASER] at 19:19 EDT Well I don't have BASIC 64, yet anyway. Should this work in BASIC? I followed your instructions. The program loads but then the screen fills up with upper case and lower case characters, some of which are reversed. The screen also freezes. Pressing run/stop restore clears the screen but the cursor never appears. Instead of useing a sector editor, I used a program tha came with the 1571 drive called "load address". It changes the load address for you. Any Ideas? I never tried programing the VIC before. This is foriegn to me. Thank you.... ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 8 Thu Apr 28, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 09:48 EDT DB: As I said, I have never done it exactly that way myself, but did you change the font load address, etc. and load it first. I'll have to give it a try and see what I can come up with maybe later today. Do you have a font you can upload for me to test it with? I'm sure of what has to be done... just not exactly sure how it must be done at this point. Just read the rest of your message wrt the load address... that should be ok... you did load it with a ,8,1, right? As for programming the VIC, don't be intimidated. All you are doing is telling it to look in different places for the stuff it needs to display. It is a lot easier if you have all the memory and reference manuals, which I do. :) ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 9 Thu Apr 28, 1994 D.BOBER [RENTaLASER] at 19:30 EDT Yes, I did change the fonts load address to 49152. And loaded it first with ,8,1. As for the font, there isn't much differance between my font and the commodore font. I just changed some of the graphic char- actors so I could "draw" windows and use the Upper-case and Llower-case charactors. I only changed four charactors. the font editor I used loads the commodore font for editing. Just changed some of them. I double checked all my entries, but I check themm again to be sure. ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 10 Fri Apr 29, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 06:38 EDT DB: I'm going to take a look at it as soon as I log off. Perhaps I'll have an answer for you later today. :) ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 11 Fri Apr 29, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 15:35 EDT DB: Here is what you need to do what you want to do. 10 open5,16,5,"font.roman" 20 get#5,a$,b$ 25 : 30 ad=51200 35 : 40 get#5,a$ : h0=st 50 poke ad,asc(a$+chr$(.)):ad=ad+1 55 if h0 then close5 60 goto 40 65 : 100 poke56578,peek(56578) or 3 110 poke56576,(peek(56576)and252) 115 : 120 poke 53272,(peek(53272)and15) 125 poke 648,192 1020 : 1025 poke53272,(peek(53272)and 240) or 2 Note! You must change your font load address again, to 51200. Sorry! Also, you only *need* lines 100 to 1025. Hmmm! I thought I had renumbered that. O well, no big deal. Anyway, this will put your font and your screen safely in VIC bank 3, out of the way of BASIC so you have plenty of room for your program, etc. The lines before 100 are just mine to load in the font I was using to test this. All in all, I think this is a pretty nice solution given that it takes nothing at all away from your BASIC program. O, and one other plus, if you should need it, is the 100 bytes of memory from 1024 to 2023. This is the normal screen area, but with this little hack, it is quite free for anything you can think to use it for. If you wanted to experiment, you could even buy yourself another 1K of BASIC space by lowering the BASIC start pointers to 1024. Let me know how you make out w/this. And there are no guarantees that this would work with a compiled BASIC program. ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 12 Fri Apr 29, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 15:36 EDT BTW, I forgot one thing. I had to make a correction to the program in line 55. It should have a 'goto 100' after the 'close5'. sorry! ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 13 Fri Apr 29, 1994 D.BOBER [RENTaLASER] at 20:29 EDT OK!! Thanks Ed. I'll sign off and try it... ------------ Category 5, Topic 23 Message 14 Sat Apr 30, 1994 D.BOBER [RENTaLASER] at 17:24 EDT Hello again... Well, it works flawlessly!! Many, many thanks to you Ed for all your help! I couldn't have done it without your insight. By the way, it is a checkbook balancing program. It started out years ago as a very simple account balancer that didn't save the register to disk. It now comes complete with pull-dowm menus and supports multi drives including the RamLink Real Time Clock. Also uses a ML routine I found in a book for windowing. I should have my compiler in about a week. When I am sure that all of the bugs have been worked out, I'll upload it here. Again, Thank you! Douglas Bober [RENTaLASER] [NHSCC pres.] ------------ ************ Topic 24 Sun Apr 24, 1994 C.TUCKER3 at 17:08 EDT Sub: Ultra HiRes Demo & Basic 8 Inquires into using Basic 8 for programming and how to get programs like Ultra HiRes Demo to work once you've downloaded. How can you acquire 64k video ram and is it easy to install? :) 5 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 24 Message 1 Sun Apr 24, 1994 B.MASSE at 19:04 EDT Where to find 64k Video Ram... software support international sells the ram. It is a piggyback type deely-bopper that is really easy to install . It is kinda expensive though, around $50 bucks. There number is 1 800 356 1179 and they are a very good company to deal with. The stuff gets to you quick and they have a very good return policy. I might add that I personally had problems with mine while using Geos. Seems that my high res screen would vaporize or would split in half at the most in-oportune moments... So I took mine out. Someone else on Genie had the same problem recently... If you want to buy mine I will sell it for $30 gift of time. Bob ------------ Category 5, Topic 24 Message 2 Wed Apr 27, 1994 N.PHI [Toto] at 01:51 EDT BTW, I think I may have been the one to complain about possible screen garbage related to the 64K VDC chip. On the advice of JBEE, I took the 128 aopart and exchanged 8563 chips (80-column video) with a junk 128. I swapped an R7 version of the 8563 with what turned out to be an R9A, the latest, most reliable version - and VOILA, everything is OK! My 64K module stays, and I plan to get I-Paint and I-Port soon.... I hear that there are MEGABYTES of naughty GIF's out there waiting to be converted for 128 use! heh heh heh Sorry to diverge from the original topic ------------ Category 5, Topic 24 Message 3 Mon May 02, 1994 L.SCHONDER [C128.LOU] at 23:52 EDT This ain't Kansas, Toto! :D That IPaint/IPort combo pak looks good, doesn't it? ------------ Category 5, Topic 24 Message 4 Fri May 06, 1994 C128.JBEE at 10:10 EDT > N.PHI [Toto] > exchanged 8563 chips (80-column video) with a junk 128. I swapped an R7.. > reliable version - and VOILA, everything is OK! My 64K module stays, and I Great :) ------------ Category 5, Topic 24 Message 5 Fri May 06, 1994 C128.JBEE at 10:10 EDT Someone asked about UltraHiRes and getting a text screen back after hitting Run/Stop CONTROL. Just type @text <CR> ------------ 5 ************ Topic 26 Sun May 15, 1994 J.SERAFINO at 00:57 EDT Sub: midi-player "semidi" just wondering... 1 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 5, Topic 26 Message 1 Sun May 15, 1994 J.SERAFINO at 01:07 EDT I've enjoyed playing stereo sids using midi instruments and Robert Storelle's midi player for a while. One of the options of the Midi player allows you to set a specific midi channel, voice #, octave and velocity for each of the six "sid" notes. This feature would be much more useful if the settings could be saved to disk, for example, with the song's name and a different extension. When the Midi player loads in a new song, it would load in the new midi setup file as well. This would allow you to change midi voices automatically for each song. I'd like to modify "semidi player" to include this enhancement. does anyone know if Robert is still around? ----JohnS ------------ 5 ************ Topic 37 Tue Sep 06, 1994 T.BROWN25 [Tim] at 21:38 EDT Sub: Hi-Res Printing I need help compacting character data stored in memory 1 message(s) total ************ ************ Topic 38 Tue Sep 06, 1994 T.BROWN25 [Tim] at 21:44 EDT Sub: Hi-Res Printing I need help compacting character data stored in memory 1 message(s) total ************ 5