7 Apr
2020
7 Apr
'20
11:19 a.m.
First I want to say again how much I appreciate your assistance. Up
until now my only experience with this system was as a HS student first
learning to program and never had any access to the system outside of
that. Learning a lot reading the manuals for the system as well as the
doc on Simh and from you.
On 2020-04-07 00:32, J. David Bryan via cctalk wrote:
The simulator executable always starts up with a
default hardware
configuration (a 32K 2116 CPU, no extra firmware, and every possible
I/O
interface card assigned somewhere in the I/O space). The supplied
simulator command files change that default to match the Access (or
2000F,
etc.) hardware requirements, but the changes are not sticky across
sessions. So restarting the simulator reverts to the default
configuration.
In other words, running the simulator with "hp2100" gets you the
default
configuration. Running with "hp2100 tsb-auto" (e.g.) starts with the
default, and then the "tsb-auto.sim" command file execution changes it
to
match the TSB requirements before bootstrapping the system.
Okay that was interesting and makes sense.
I tried your "tsb-convert.sim" suggestion and instructions from earlier
and where it did work to an extent, I'm now beginning to think it won't
work in my case.
I have Access up and running and restored account Z905 (the games) as a
test. Then used the suggested "tsb-convert.sim" to dump that to a tape
file. Moved that to my 2000F system and restored it. I ended up with
only 1 file and not all the contents of the catalog.
Looking at the Access doc on the conversion program's dump command I
noticed it says it dumps 2000/Access "BASIC formatted files" which the
one file I was able to transfer is where the others are not.
Looking through the manuals to see if there is a different way to save
the programs that could work but don't see anything yet.
Haven't looked into punch tape with Simh, is that working? Not sure
punching each program and reloading into the 2000F would be any better
than copy/paste though.
Open to any other ideas for getting a bunch of programs back to a 2000F
system... will continue to pour through all the doc I have.
David Williams