10 Jan
2012
10 Jan
'12
6:40 p.m.
Hopefully this won;t develop into a flamewar....
I am looking for a terminal emoulator program that runs on the Epson HX20.
The copy of SIDHA-Dialog that was on a website is corrupt. I contacted the
website owner, he agrees, in fact it's not a tar fiel atall, but an html
error page!. Does anyone know of a terminal emulator for the HX20?
I also read a rumour that there was a FORTH ROM for the HX20 that plugged
into the empty ROM socket in the machine. Does anyone have an image of
that or, inded, images of any other option ROMs for it?
Thanks in advnce for any help
-tony
10 Jan
10 Jan
7:51 p.m.
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
Hopefully this won;t develop into a flamewar....
I am looking for a terminal emoulator program that runs on the Epson HX20.
The copy of SIDHA-Dialog that was on a website is corrupt. I contacted the
website owner, he agrees, in fact it's not a tar fiel atall, but an html
error page!. Does anyone know of a terminal emulator for the HX20?
I also read a rumour that there was a FORTH ROM for the HX20 that plugged
into the empty ROM socket in the machine. Does anyone have an image of
that or, inded, images of any other option ROMs for it?
Thanks in advnce for any help
This probably won't be any help, since I no longer have ANY of it (Uncle
Roger has most of my old hardware. also schematics and "service" manual).
15-20 years ago, there was a crude terminal program for the HC-20 (HX in
beige instead of grey, with addition of katakana character set). That
would presumably been from Hudson Soft or Ski Soft.
There was a text editor called SkiWriter from SkiSoft.
11 Jan
11 Jan
2:10 a.m.
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
This probably won't be any help, since I no longer
have ANY of it (Uncle
Roger has most of my old hardware. also schematics and "service" manual).
15-20 years ago, there was a crude terminal program for the HC-20 (HX in
That should read 25 to 30 yrars ago! It has been TOO long.
2:47 p.m.
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
I have the hardware techncial manual on paper (it was given to me along
with another HX20 and a TF20 drive unit). There are similarl manauls
avaialble for download on the web..
Hopefully this won;t develop into a flamewar....
I am looking for a terminal emoulator program that runs on the Epson HX20.
The copy of SIDHA-Dialog that was on a website is corrupt. I contacted the
website owner, he agrees, in fact it's not a tar fiel atall, but an html
error page!. Does anyone know of a terminal emulator for the HX20?
I also read a rumour that there was a FORTH ROM for the HX20 that plugged
into the empty ROM socket in the machine. Does anyone have an image of
that or, inded, images of any other option ROMs for it?
Thanks in advnce for any help
This probably won't be any help, since I no longer have ANY of it (Uncle
Roger has most of my old hardware. also schematics and "service" manual).
15-20 years ago, there was a crude terminal program
for the HC-20 (HX in
beige instead of grey, with addition of katakana character set). That
would presumably been from Hudson Soft or Ski Soft.
There was a text editor called SkiWriter from SkiSoft.
Right.... I usspect that's going to be equally hard to find :-(. And I
also susepct that word processing o na 20*4 display is an 'interesting'
experiece.... I guess there was always the video interface, but (a) it's
uses the 6847 chip so it has the tame text capbailities as a CoCo) and
(b) it's impossible to find (I don't have it).
-tony
21 Jan
21 Jan
1:33 p.m.
New subject: Lack of Panasonic/Quasar/Friends Amis HHC tech docs (was Re: Epson HX20 terminal emulaotr (and other software) wanted.)
On 01/11/2012 11:47 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
I have the hardware techncial manual on paper (it was
given to me
along with another HX20 and a TF20 drive unit). There are similarl
manauls avaialble for download on the web..'
Speaking of technical
documentation for compact battery-powered
computers, I sure wish some technical documentation on the
Panasonic/Quasar/Friends Amis HHC would show up. The hardware is
6502-based, but with an ASIC that controls the memory map and LCD. I've
partially reverse-engineered some of the mainframe and plugin ROMs, but
parts remain mysterious.
Most of the software, other than Microsoft BASIC, was written in SNAP, a
token-threaded dialect of Forth. The MIcrosoft BASIC ROM only contains
the tiny amount of SNAP code necessary for to interface to the mainframe
code.
The widely-available image of the Microsoft BASIC ROM for the HHC
contains one byte with an obviously incorrect value, apparently due to a
glitch when the ROM was read.
2:48 p.m.
New subject: Lack of Panasonic/Quasar/Friends Amis HHC tech docs (was Re: Epson
On 01/11/2012 11:47 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
I've traced out scheamtics of the machine and the little thermal printer
(the only peripehral I have). Of coruse this doens't tell you what's
inside the ASICs (one in the computer, one in the printer), but it might
help with things like the keyboard matrix.
I cna't rememebr if I gave a copy to the guy who scnns stuff for me, if I
didn't I can easiy do so.
-tony
I have the hardware techncial manual on paper (it
was given to me
along with another HX20 and a TF20 drive unit). There are similarl
manauls avaialble for download on the web..'
Speaking of technical
documentation for compact battery-powered
computers, I sure wish some technical documentation on the
Panasonic/Quasar/Friends Amis HHC would show up. The hardware is
6502-based, but with an ASIC that controls the memory map and LCD. I've
partially reverse-engineered some of the mainframe and plugin ROMs, but
parts remain mysterious. 
10 Jan
10 Jan
7:55 p.m.
I also read a rumour that there was a FORTH ROM for
the HX20 that plugged
into the empty ROM socket in the machine. Does anyone have an image of
that or, inded, images of any other option ROMs for it?
I MAY have it on mine, but I'll be with that on hand only in 2 or 3
months...I remembering seeing that
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