Tincanalley
Experienced Member
Okay, so I have the 5150 now up and running with its 5151 monitor and the TRS-80 M4 has taking it's spot next to it. I want to demo these machines by having them running and displaying random text on the screens. I have a number of apps I can run on them, but they would be static and bad for the screens. Having random, yet not seeming random, data on the screens would allow me to have them on as long as I like without worry.
So what is the best approach? Should I create a bunch of TXT files and write a BASIC program to open the files and print out the contents to the display? Is there a better way, or something already done I could use? I did get my hands on a copy of Visicalc that has a demo, but the copy protection removal rendered all but running from HD unusable. Any other older apps out there with self running demos? Maybe a demo used on the display floor?
Thanks!
So what is the best approach? Should I create a bunch of TXT files and write a BASIC program to open the files and print out the contents to the display? Is there a better way, or something already done I could use? I did get my hands on a copy of Visicalc that has a demo, but the copy protection removal rendered all but running from HD unusable. Any other older apps out there with self running demos? Maybe a demo used on the display floor?
Thanks!