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Hey DJ,

SNAKE is now ready for release.
Also TETRIS is ready for release. See demo of it here: https://youtu.be/qs_L368dd04

Both of these are available on my github: https://github.com/linuxplayground/nabu-games

Feel free to nuke the issue I raised on NABU-LIB as this duplicates and supersedes it.

Cheers,
prodav

Using NABU IA 2023.02.06.00

Please let me know if Cloud CP/M structure/files missing issues belong in some other place.

On Cloud CP/M, A0:SX2.COM has a "man" command (stands for manual) that helps you look up command usage.

For this to work, you need A0:SAMARUX.MAN

This can be downloaded from: https://github.com/MiguelVis/samarux/blob/master/samarux.man (use the RAW button and copy/paste to sarmarux.man).

Before:

If using file on B0:SAMARUX.MAN and using the below command it works, but is should work as: man ls

Internet Adapter version 2023.01.21.00 / Cloud CP/M 2.2 with BIOS v2.3b

Hoping this is the right place to report two issues I am seeing with Cloud CP/M and the file system, or at least make you aware you had not run into them yourself.

First issue seems to be as you use Cloud CP/M (I.E. doing DIR on A, switching to another drive doing DIR there, and then coming back to A for another DIR) seems to cause programs to disappear from the disk. Rebooting the NABU and reloading the boot disk fresh will restore the applications that disappeared prior.

The other issue I have been running into is with attempting to save documents. I will try to use ED to create a document and save on a blank disk. Running DIR shows the files on the disk, however reopening the file will result in a blank file with nothing in it despite previously writing and saving it. Looking at the disk image after the fact in a hex editor shows that the headers are being written for the files, but the contents are not being saved at all.

Both issues seem to happen regardless if the IA is pulling A,B, and G disk images from the cloud, or if I save them and store them locally with my local disk images.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks again, you have done such amazing work.

"user number" is showing single ASCII character so after 9 gives:

User | Dec | Hex | Char | Desc
9 | 57 | 39 | 9 | Nine
10 | 58 | 3A | : | Colon
11 | 59 | 3B | ; | Semicolon
12 | 60 | 3C | < | Less than
13 | 61 | 3D | = | Equality sign
14 | 62 | 3E | > | Greater than
15 | 63 | 3F | ? | Question mark

user 13: A:=>
user 11: A:;>

DJSures :

Not sure what the problem is here. Data appears to be getting to the Nabu, below is a picture of the interactions to it getting the first chunk of data. My bios rom has a label showing '90020060 REV A'.

The screen is simply blue, no text. Here is a capture of the data on the RS422 line ..

A little later, it appears to re-try?

But then it changes ..

And ends here ...

Hi DJ - thanks for the YouTube videos and the NABU revival. Fun stuff.

I'm getting an abort (NullReferenceException) with the NABU_Internet_Adapter_84 (downloaded today, Jan 19, 2023)
My Linux is Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.

Here's what happens:

mark@mark-Aspire-V5-571P:~/Downloads/NABU-RetroNet/linux-x64$ ls -l
total 18464
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mark mark    24120 Oct 18 09:00 libSystem.IO.Ports.Native.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mark mark 18880112 Jan 18 13:57 NABU-Internet-Adapter-84
mark@mark-Aspire-V5-571P:~/Downloads/NABU-RetroNet/linux-x64$ sudo ./NABU-Internet-Adapter-84 
[sudo] password for mark: 
Unhandled exception. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Unix.Terminal.Curses.endwin()
   at Terminal.Gui.CursesDriver.End()
   at Terminal.Gui.Application.ResetState()
   at Terminal.Gui.Application.Shutdown()
   at NABU_Internet_Adapter_84.Program.Main(String[])
Aborted

It aborts just about immediately. I get no window or anything like that.

I took a look with ldd to see if I was missing something, and it seemed OK to me.
I also used strace to follow the system calls. I couldn't tease out anything interesting.

Any ideas?
Thanks!
/Mark

Hi DJ. Thank you so much for putting so much of your time and effort in restoring and enhancing the NABU Network. I have been using the Dtech USB to RS422 adapter without any problems but recently tried using the FTDI USB to Serial converter as outlined in by MyGeekyHobby's in https://youtu.be/NxW2GOw5Mqk. I thought I would create this circuit board as a trial run for developing other interfaces such as a Wifi connection.

Using the FTDI USB to Serial Converter, I was able to load and run NABU Network 1984 Cycle v1 and v2 without issue, but ran into problems when loading Cloud CP/M 2.2 and Slide Show Gallery (wouldn't load). When I look at the messages appearing on the Internet Adapter, it appears the file being loaded to the PC contain odd characters interposed between multiple "/" making the files unloadable. I tried the CTS to RTS jumper suggested in Jamie's Hack Shack https://youtu.be/PtUqpxS8h5c but that made no difference.

I noticed you had replied with a fix to an earlier issue with the FTDI USB adapter. Is there a similar fix needed for Cloud CP/M and Slide Show to work as well? I also tried Chat and it partially loaded, Brick Battle was a no-go. I've verified the connections on my board with a voltmeter (continuity check). It is possible the problem is with my setup, but I thought it was odd that it worked well with the NABU Network Cycles but with nothing else. Do you have any ideas on where I could look to troubleshoot this?

I recently built the RS422 alternative method of connecting the NABU to a PC (I find all adapters in the computer to be a cleaner solution)

I was surprised by a comment left here: https://github.com/Kris-Sekula/NABU/tree/main/RS422Alternative

“ It works! ... well it "worked"...fine with the first version of the Nabu software, but now something has changed... so this adapter only works with the alternative "monitor" that I tested ...”

I tested it with latest version of the adapter on Windows, OSX and all show the same problem. The software sees the com port, initializes it but then just sits there. Doesn’t do anything. When I pull the USB cable out of the PC, the software detects the port is gone and turns off the emulator.

Is this something that can be fixed?

this worked a week ago, now giving ERROR #D after BIOS starts on real NABU

network adapter version Version 2023.01.18.00 running on linux
also reported on windows from other users
unable to duplicate on MAME works fine there

cpm telnet not allowing port selection only does port 23

Now with:

• Joystick Support
• 7 Bag random block selection. (IE: Don't reuse a block until all 7 have been used then refill the bag for the next selection.)

https://github.com/linuxplayground/nabu-games

I will work on improving snake next.

Thanks DJ.

I used the NT Tracker and the dodgy little tool you packed to rip a midi file for the tetris theme. I don't know how much of a license issue that might be.

Anyway - it's now in the latest code over at https://github.com/linuxplayground/nabu-games if you want to update cloud-cpm.

2.9 was speedy and didn't exhibit dropped characters in telnet, 3.1 is much slower and drops characters:

Latest IA, all default settings.