atrax27407 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 I downloaded the FORTRAN 4.4 package from "Development Resources". When I look at the .DSK files with TIDir, I find a file with a strange filename and "58833 unknown" in the attributes filed. I can copy all of the other files to a 3.5" floppy for transport to my real TI but that file will not copy. Does anyone know what it it? Disk protection? Or something else? Is that file needed to run FORTRAN? There is a similar file in the 9640 side of the files as well. Ideas anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 I actually copied the files to another disk for my CF7+ and the program runs fine. I don't remember a file called that so it may not need it. Note: be sure to call the system disk FORTCOMP or the boot program won't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Just checked with TIImageTool: The image files - "FORTRAN 9640 v4.4 - Library & Demonstration Disk.DSK" - "FORTRAN 99 v4.4 - Boot Disk.DSK" are corrupt (see Utility->Check filesystem). The other three are good and can be used without problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted April 8, 2015 Author Share Posted April 8, 2015 I finally got a good download (including the artifact file). Fortunately, the "artifact" file on both .DSK images did NOT corrupt any of the other files as far as I can tell. I was able to transfer all of the other files in the image over to my TI-99. It appears to run normally when loaded from XBASIC. Now, all I have to to is read the docs. I'll see if any problems appear once I experiment with it a bit more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Are you planning any Fortran projects by any chance? I don't recall ever coming across a Fortran program for the TI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Hooboy! I might have to get into this. Fortran was my first love, after all. ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Ya... Fortran 77 on a Cray Y-MP/2E, baby... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Learned Fortran in college and never used it after that. Be fun to play with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Fortran 2B on an IBM 1620 (1963) followed by Fortran IV on an IBM 7040 the same year. ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I finally got a good download (including the artifact file). Fortunately, the "artifact" file on both .DSK images did NOT corrupt any of the other files as far as I can tell. I was able to transfer all of the other files in the image over to my TI-99. It appears to run normally when loaded from XBASIC. Now, all I have to to is read the docs. I'll see if any problems appear once I experiment with it a bit more. if this works, I would be very interested in replacing the corrupt version in the Development Resources thread. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Ya... Fortran 77 on a Cray Y-MP/2E, baby... You lucky b*****d <swoon> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 Here is the TI-99 Boot disk. It is archived with archiver with a TIFILES header. The library disks are good and I am unable to test the Geneve version since I don't have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 It won't let me attach an .ARK file. Hmm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Zip the ARK file, post the zip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I think I managed to fix the "FORTRAN 9640 v4.4 - Library & Demonstration Disk.DSK"; see attached disk image. The lost file may have been called README, but this is just a guess. FORTRAN 9640 v4.4 - Library & Demonstration Disk.DSK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) The image "FORTRAN 99 v4.4 - Boot Disk.DSK" maybe lost a file that cannot be reconstructed, but I am not sure. Observations: The disk directory has the following sector pointer sequence: 0002 (BOOT), 0014 (?), 0003 (FORT41A) ... 0013 (VERSION).That means the name of the lost file is sorted between BOOT and FORT41A, and it was copied as the last file to this disk. Maybe the disk was full. We have four sectors that are not used by any of the other files: 0014, 0015, 0166, and 0167. The sector 0014 should have become the FIB (file information block) of that file. Again, it seems as if the disk was almost full, and that the open space from 0014 to 0021 was about to be used. For some reason this failed. I would have expected that sector 0166 was used first; maybe the routine chose to use the smallest available sector for the FIB. The sectors 0014 and 0015 are filled with e5, so there was no write operation. The sectors 0166 and 0167 are copies of the sectors 0022 and 0023, containing the beginning of the BOOT program. [Edit: Attached you can find a fixed version where I simply removed that pointer and deallocated the four sectors.] FORTRAN 99 v4.4 - Boot Disk.DSK Edited April 9, 2015 by mizapf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 I have copied the individual files (except for the corrupted one) and ported them to a TI-formatted disk. That should eliminate all of the bad pointers in the .DSK file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) I think I managed to fix the "FORTRAN 9640 v4.4 - Library & Demonstration Disk.DSK"; see attached disk image. The lost file may have been called README, but this is just a guess. The file is called VERSION. I just checked this with the FORTRAN 9640 copy on my hard disk. Edited April 9, 2015 by mizapf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted April 9, 2015 Author Share Posted April 9, 2015 Does the version number in the text make any difference as far as functionality is concerned? The two TI library files are Version 4.48 and 4.49. I wonder if all of the files on both disks could be combined into a single disk. There are no duplicates among the other files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) This is the Fortran boot disk as I got it from Bob. [Edit: not Owen, sorry ] fortran.dsk FORTCOMP.zip Edited April 9, 2015 by mizapf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 Here are some applications by LGMA before they released FORTRAN 4.4. They are srchived with a TIFILES header. FORTRAN.ARK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 This is the Fortran boot disk as I got it from Bob. [Edit: not Owen, sorry ] I was gonna say... I know I've distributed some lost software, but I did not think FORTRAN was one of the disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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