BONUS VIDEO: I Picked Up Something at VCF East, and I'm Afraid It's Terminal
Added 2023-04-21 00:59:13 +0000 UTCHi Patreon friends!
I picked up a really neat terminal at VCF East... but it doesn't work. Let's fix it! Also, Sol-20 update.
It was so awesome seeing some of you there!!
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i love how the patreon videos bring back the waggily hands!
Joshua Hayes
2023-04-23 04:14:41 +0000 UTCThanks for this! I'll try this :)
Action Retro
2023-04-22 17:40:26 +0000 UTCYeah the last line of the pasted code has the / to save it
Action Retro
2023-04-22 17:39:56 +0000 UTCThanks for this! I'll try typing in the first bit at 0000 and see if the same thing happens. I forgot to mention that the TeraTerm -> serial method worked just fine when sending data to the tiny bit of available built-in memory on the Sol, and gave me an executable program. Only seems to happen with this RAM card.
Action Retro
2023-04-22 17:39:17 +0000 UTCDid he save the program before reading?
Krisjanis Kronbergs
2023-04-22 15:21:13 +0000 UTCHrm. My best guess is that there's an issue with the address lines, or decoding or... something. When listing back out, you are getting 128 byte repeats. So it's like it's ignoring the first 7 address bits. You were able to successfully write to 0000, but did you try other locations or some memory fill patterns? (all 00, FF, or incrementing, etc) Does it give you the same dump every time you run the same input? That at least might narrow the failure modes down.
Scott Lembcke
2023-04-21 17:47:53 +0000 UTC"Filthy but beautiful" sounds like a tinder bio
Rob Jobin
2023-04-21 12:32:25 +0000 UTC1. This is awesome. 2. Have you tried typing the program into RAM manually? I wonder what happens if you type the first few lines and then list them back out. Are they rearranged then? I had an old UNIX box (some old HP thing) that needed a serial terminal and all of my commands were out of order when I used a virtual terminal on my modern computer. Turned out my serial application was sending a format that the UNIX box couldn't understand, and it was getting jumbled up in memory (even though the screen looked good). I forget if I was using TeraTerm - could have been NetTerm or Rocket BlueZone. I swapped to either screen or minicom on my Linux laptop and it worked, but I remember I had to play around with the serial settings.
Veronica Explains
2023-04-21 02:33:46 +0000 UTC
