No problem! Just got done shoveling our driveway, the neighbor's driveway and the sidewalks. Good exercise!

Any progress on this, cbmguy?

That would be fine! Much appreciated.

Drat, that's too bad. Brett Tabke programmed what appear to be some very good utilities on the C128. Fontigus, the Karma assembler, Spraypaint, and probably some more stuff I'm missing in the list. I remember reading Jim Brain's reviews in Commodore World way back when.

Hmm, since cbmguy mentioned Spraypainter (the 80 column color/graphics maker then some other neat features), I was wondering whether anyone has the full version. It looks like a really nice program. The demo version on cbmfiles.com doesn't allow you to save files, plus doesn't have the help files.

I vote for a customizable keytable. In some cases, my preferred shortcuts are different.

You don't need to stuff the entire keyboard buffer with the text of that BASIC command line. Just clear the screen, cursor down 3 lines, display the text, home the cursor, put a carriage return in the buffer, and END the program (how you do that from ML I don't know). Many disk menu systems use this technique on the C64.

Merlin 128?

The 8-bit database would be neat. I'm always interested in such things. I remember there was a rather large, complicated (for me, an ML n00b) discussion of a database written natively for the LtK, came with some documentation about the LtK on a web site. I didn't do much more than glance over it, since I no longer have an LtK.

I remember Jeff Ledger asked the question "What is the reset SYS command for the C64?" on his forum to make sure the person signing up was reasonably intelligent.

Heh! Right away, sir.

Quote from: quarkx on March 11, 2010, 02:28 PM
holy cheese and crackers!!!! wow, 300 bones for software you can't even use.

Well, you can *sort of* use it:

http://jledger.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=qlink

Just needs some more content and more users.

I highly recommend 1581copy. Works great in a DOS box.

http://d81.de/

Haw. New in box QLink disks, $300:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Commodore-QuantumLink-Software-Original-Sealed-Retail_W0QQitemZ150420287091QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2305bf6e73

Two questions:

1) What is the filename that CMD HD's look for in order to be able to autoboot? I thought it was "copyright 89 cmd" -- I'm running a BBS and it'd be nice to have it autoboot if the power ever went out.

I tried renaming the BBS boot file to that, making sure the autoboot file was in the default power-on partition. No joy. Do I need an autoboot sector maker like on the C128 1571 drive? I don't see anything like that on the CMD HD Utilities disk I have.

2) Is there some SCSI command which can spin down the HD mechanism after some period of I/O inactivity? I saw the thread on changing the write-protect switch to do an immediate spin down, but I haven't assembled it yet.

http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:hd-park-switch_-_how_to_patch_a_cmd-hd_to_your_own_needs

*bump* Hey this sounds interesting. Wonder if she's still contactable?

Quote from: cbmguy on February 10, 2010, 04:35 PM
...I can't do this with an emulator because I cannot get into the BBS as it simply gets to a point and just hangs (waiting for modem responses and REU and printer and what ever else I had set it up for 15 years ago).

You can use a RS232 <-> TCP/IP bridge such as Jim Brain's tcpser, available here:

http://www.jbrain.com/pub/linux/serial/

I've used it for my BBS since the program's inception, works great.

I downloaded Omni-128 but haven't had time to look for it. Thank you for your effort, cbmguy.

I also directed c64web from Lemon64 over here since he was interested in Omni-128 as well.

*leeches BBS stuff* Thanks, Blacklord.

Hey, I did it. I wrote a little BASIC ML loader. By myself! No peeking at Google or comp.sys.cbm. Just "Mapping the C64."

Y'know, the type that has one line with

10 sys 2061

in it.

         *= $0801
         ; assemble to disk with <-5
         .word line_link; line link

         .word 10 ; line #
         .byte $9e ; sys token
         .text "2061"
         .byte 0 ; end of line
line_link .word 0
         inc $d021
         rts
;---------------------------------------


Programmed in Style's mighty Turbo Macro Pro assembler. \o/

Hey, I saw that on the Denial forums. I saved it in my programming notes, 'cuz I'd never seen anything like that before. Image BBS uses a lot of Boolean logic in the BASIC portions. Things like:

on-(an$="Y")-2*(an$="N")-3*(an$="Q")goto xxx,yyy,zzz:goto aaa

Pretty neat IMHO. Way to go!

Ah, thanks for trying.

The above points are good ones, Hydrophilic. Maybe I will just stick with the "old" way of doing things.

Not to say my BASIC code is a paradigm of efficient coding, inasmuch BASIC can be.

That line of code is neat, Anders. I had to paste it into VICE (then lowercase it, a quirk I hadn't taken into consideration; my text editor does have a "convert selection to lowercase" function though). I assume it prints a chr$(0) if <>1? There certainly is no CHR$(-1)...

People continue to amaze me with coding feats.

Here's a bit of logic I came up with a while back to print singular/plural words:

10 n=1
20 print"played"n;
30 printleft$("games",4-(n<>1))


Looks a bit neater IMHO than:


20 print"played"n"game";:ifn<>1thenprint"s";
30 print


Yeah, there is a lot of stuff in that archive, isn't there... Working on consolidating stuff a bit.

I need to update the web page... I've got my Image BBS stuff there as well, and that could use an update as well.

http://cbbsoutpost.servebbs.com/dragonseye/projects

Any BBS software?

Anyone here run Image BBS in the past? I'm trying to disassemble the program and learn from it. Also collecting plus-files or anything Image-related. Thanks.