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Greetings from Melbourne :) - alessiman - 10-04-2023
Good Morning,
Proud new owner of a Microbee 128 and Amber Monitor
Currently learning how to get software loaded from Monitor as i have no disk system currently
But having lots of fun!
RE: Greetings from Melbourne :) - MbeeTech - 10-04-2023
Hello Alessiman.
Welcome to the forum.
Thanks for introducing yourself.
I've approved your access to the repository so you should be able to download basic to load in from tape.
Find it here :
Microbee /Software /Tapes /Original /basic_5.22
It is a wav file so you should be able to plug your Microbee cassette in lead into a laptop's earphone output and
load it into the Microbee via the Machine language monitor. Once the tape file has loaded in you can cold boot basic
by typing G 8000<CR> at the monitor prompt.
RE: Greetings from Melbourne :) - CheshireNoir - 10-04-2023
Welcome Alessiman,
Enjoy the stay! For your disk solution, (And if was you who posted over in the Facebook group recently, you're probably sick of this answer :-) ) I'd suggest a Gotek. They're a USB floppy drive emulator.
With the updated FlashFloppy firmware (https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy) they're a powerful alternative to disk drives. Upgrade them with a screen and a rotary encoder, and you'll wonder how you lived without them.
This one is mine. I flashed the firmware, added a rotary encoder, an OLED screen and a piezo buzzer (To emulate drive noises, albeit quietly). I power it off a customised PSU that has a 9.5v supply for the main unit and a 5v supply for the Gotek. You could easily use a USB PSU with the right cable instead, if you preferred.
RE: Greetings from Melbourne :) - alessiman - 10-04-2023
(10-04-2023, 02:35 PM)CheshireNoir Wrote: Welcome Alessiman,
Enjoy the stay! For your disk solution, (And if was you who posted over in the Facebook group recently, you're probably sick of this answer :-) ) I'd suggest a Gotek. They're a USB floppy drive emulator.
With the updated FlashFloppy firmware (https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy) they're a powerful alternative to disk drives. Upgrade them with a screen and a rotary encoder, and you'll wonder how you lived without them.
This one is mine. I flashed the firmware, added a rotary encoder, an OLED screen and a piezo buzzer (To emulate drive noises, albeit quietly). I power it off a customised PSU that has a 9.5v supply for the main unit and a 5v supply for the Gotek. You could easily use a USB PSU with the right cable instead, if you preferred.
Yep! its the next purchase - though thinking of waiting and getting the dual floppy/Gotek combo
RE: Greetings from Melbourne :) - ChickenMan - 11-04-2023
Hi alessiman and welcome to the forum.
Load the Basic 5.22e tape WAV file in from the Monitor using R and if the volume is right you will get no C (checksum) error and looks like this while loading with the last number going down 100h at a time
This shows it loads at 2000h and is 4001h long. Unfortunately you have to move it into the correct memory position (8000h), so use
M 2000 8000 4001
and to start Basic, now type in G 8003
RE: Greetings from Melbourne :) - MbeeTech - 11-04-2023
Thanks for trying it out Chickenman.
I had not & assumed it loaded directly to 8000h.
RE: Greetings from Melbourne :) - ChickenMan - 11-04-2023
I might look at making a WAV that loads, auto does the move and a Basic warm start making it "easy".
RE: Greetings from Melbourne :) - someone - 12-04-2023
(11-04-2023, 10:46 PM)ChickenMan Wrote: I might look at making a WAV that loads, auto does the move and a Basic warm start making it "easy".
Why not make it programmatically so you don't need to use a tape deck?
Then you can directly create a .WAV file from a binary or hexdump file.
RE: Greetings from Melbourne :) - ChickenMan - 12-04-2023
No need for a tape deck, just do it all in the emulator using the Monitor to save a 1200baud WAV directly to my PC's hard drive.
EDIT:
Files already produced, see https://microbeetechnology.com.au/forum/thread-639.html
RE: Greetings from Melbourne :) - alessiman - 23-04-2023
Sorry for the late reply to this post. It took a while for my Gotek to arrive so will be spending the evening getting it up and running
