Which version of MS-DOS are you running on your mindset?
Which ones do you HAVE?
C: I don't bloody know Fred. I believe I said they were all dead as doorknobs,
therefore I can't possibly be running anything on them. I am running a sale though. I
can't remember what images I have either. When I get into all that crud I'm going
to make them available to the burgeoning Mindset community. You want a set?
Do you just need BASIC, or do you think that you need one integrated into
the hardware, with every graphics and sound mode implemented?
C: all of the above preferably. As it stands though I might wind up high and dry. Is there
a Mindset specific BASIC?
Use a GENERIC GWBASIC, NOT the one that was "customized" for the TI.
Or use the one that was "customized" for the Mindset.
C: but the TI version runs on stock pc's. Why can't I run it on the Mindset???
Screen mode 0 at least is compatible w/peecee hardwarez.
?So...what does it take to get BASIC onto a cartridge?
1) write a BASIC that is designed for cartridge
?C: Homey don't play that.
Is that PCJr?? THAT cartridge will do you NO GOOD on the Mindset.
?C: Obviously if it's not physically compatible. Give me some credit. But it is at
least cartridge BASIC, don't need to write my own. Shmott, no?
The only carts I have for the
Mindset are NVRAMs.
Is the file that you want to cartridge an .EXE or a .COM?
C:? Most early Gee-Whiz BASICs are .com's, no? I'm not trying to cartridge
anything at the moment. I'm just poking around.
?And incidentally isn't it astounding how much computer lingo gets recycled -
DO NOT TRUST the extension of the file!? Are the first two bytes of it
"MZ"?
C: That's actually a good point. But if YOU wrote something, should I trust it then?
If it is an .EXE, then NO.? Those have an elaborate load process.
If it is a .COM, then YES, it can be made into a cartridge.? Their load
process consists of generating a PSP, loading the file into that segment
at 100h, and doing a jump to 100h
C: All "executables" get loaded at offset 100h, no? That is CS:0100. I thought
that's how ti worked.
(NO, EXE2BIN will NOT convert any non-trivial program)
?C: I never would have suggested that. If it was written to be a .com, and obeyed the
rules, _none_ of which I remember, then it would. I don't know why you have to
continually insult me. Sheesh.
?Incidentally the "tiny" model in later versions of MASM indicate the resultant
code would become a .com, no?