[Techtoolslist] Programming the 9100 without video or keyboard

[Steve Larkins]

Thank you.

On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 18:11, Ian Eure <ian at retrospec.tv> wrote:

> Okay, been hard at work on a few things, time to share another
> bit.
> Following up on the post about writing disks, here’s how you put
> something interesting on them to write.
>
> Instructions are "works for me on Linux" level.
>
>
> 1. Get a copy of ToolShed[1].  This is an open-source project for
>    dealing with OS-9 disks.  Build it and put it somewhere you can
>    call it.
>
> 2. Make an empty disk image.
>    High density: os9 format -q -e -k -bs256 -9 -st32 -dd -t80 -ds
>    disk.img
>    Double density: os9 format -q -e -k -bs256 -9 -st16 -dd -t80
>    -ds disk.img
>
> 3. Make the userdisk structure in your disk image:
>    touch MEVALID
>    os9 makdir 'disk.img,/SYSDISK'
>    os9 makdir 'disk.img,/PARTLIB$PARTLIB'
>    os9 makdir 'disk.img,/PODLIB$PODLIB'
>    os9 makdir 'disk.img,/HELPLIB$HELPLIB'
>    os9 makdir 'disk.img,/PROGLIB$PROGLIB'
>    os9 copy MEVALID disk.img,/
>
> 3. Convert your TL/1 code.  This doesn’t compile it, but is
> equivalent
>    to the editor COPY from TEXT to PROGRAM type.  I wrote a Python
>    program to do this:
>
>    pcv.py infile.tl1 prog_outfile
>
>    Since it’s called from the shell, you can convert as many as
>    you
>    want in one go, instead of plonking away at the 9100 keyboard
>    for
>    each file.
>
> 5. Copy the program into the disk image:
>    os9 copy prog_outfile
>    'disk.img,/PROGLIB$PROGLIB/PROGRAM$OUTFILE'
>
>    This just puts it into the PROGLIB, but you can put it in a UUT
>    as
>    well:
>
>    os9 makdir 'disk.img,/UUT$WHATEVER'
>    os9 copy prog_outfile 'disk.img,/UUT$WHATEVER/PROGRAM$OUTFILE'
>
> 6. Write the image to a disk and load it onto your 9100.
>
>
> I put up some helpful TL/1 code at
> https://github.com/ieure/fluke-9100-lib which you can
>
>  - getromcrc.  Works exactly like getromsig, but returns a CRC-32.
>  This
>    is debugged and produces the exact CRC listed in the MAME
>    source
>    code, so nearly any ROM signature you could ever want is
>    readily
>    available.
>  - testromcrc.  Works exactly like testromfull, but takes a CRC-32
>    instead of Fluke’s signature.  It also works from the front
>    panel, so you don’t need video or keyboard to use it.
>  - u_testroms.  Reads a text file of ROM addresses, refs, and
>    CRCs, and tests them all.  I prefer this to duplicating a
>    bunch of testromcrc calls.
>  - u_testrams.  Same deal as u_testroms, but for RAM.
>
> This isn’t a full replacement for the video and keyboard, but you
> can
> get plenty more out of a 9100 this way no matter what the
> configuration.  The main issue is that it’s fairly difficult to
> get
> TL/1 code right without using the debugger.  Running TLC.EXE over
> them
> helps, but many issues only crop up once you actually run it.
>
>
>   -- Ian
>
>
> [1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/toolshed/
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