A little levity. You can’t be serious…all the time! The Dancing Demon running on a emulated TRS-80…TRSDOS is the OS! A mere picture doesn’t do this justice. In all seriousness this was cool in 1979 and early 1980s. Most of my schooling was in IBM mainframes where I would type COBOL and Assembler programs into …
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Downloaded Dancing Demon
Didn’t have enough space to save it. It tries to save to :0 which is TRSDOS[drives use 0-3]. Tried to create new floppy without success. Using that option after pressing F7.Couldn’t get it to work. Couldn’t get FORMAT to work either.Finally just took a working floppy and copied and renamed the deleted everything off of …
TRS-80’s more advanced TRSDOS
Emulation of the TRS-80’s more advanced TRSDOS [TRS-80 Disk Operating System]. It was more powerful and had more features than the built-in ROM. I used the level 2 ROM with cassette on my Model 1 and TRSDOS that included Disk Basic which was more powerful than Level 2 Basic in the ROM shown below. Notes… …
TRS-80
Well continuing my stroll down memory lane…the TRS-80 Level II 16K. My 1st personal computer bought for me by my parents while I was going to school to learn mini & mainframe computers. The display was 64×16 and it ran @1.78MHz.. External storage was on cassette tapes. Way before the Internet, you had to be …
Building TRS-80 emulator sdltrs
Having fun with the TRS-80 emulator “xtrs”. However decided to revisit the “sdltrs” install which failed yesterday. The MAIN reason I revisited this was the addition of cut & paste which does not work in “xtrs”! It adds other nice features too but “cut & paste” was most important to me. OK…I also like the …
TRS-80 emulator…xtrs
Spent a lot of time getting TRS-80 emulator working…finally did!They make it hard because of the legality of owning the ROM.But I legally own a Model 1 & 4PFound and downloaded the TRS-80 emulator xtrs-4.9d.tar.gzDecompressThen in that directory…Type makeType sudo make install Next you need the proper ROM…Found level2.rom at https://github.com/lkesteloot/trs80/blob/master/roms/level2.romCreate ~/xtrs/ROMS/Place the above ROM …
Website layout
Slowly I’m getting the layout for my website, more like I want. The home page although not perfect is not bad…at least on the browsers/screens that I’ve tested on. It even looks good on my android phone. The main problem is that I never found a documented solution, and basically got it to work by …