TopCard
Version 1.00 · Hiroyuki Sekiya
Description
TopCard adds a file-open menu to the topcard and allows you to select your topcard PCX from there. Originally part of the software collection sold with the "HP200LX Software Bible" co-authored by Hiroyuki Sekiya and Hirotaka Hamada, published by Softbank, Tokyo, in April 1996 (ISBN4-89052-911-X). Now released as copyrighted freeware.
Technical details
- File
topcard.zip- Size
- 9.9 KB
- Format
- .zip
- Year
- 1998
- Added to S.U.P.E.R.
- 1998-09-06
- Files inside
- 6
- Author
- Hiroyuki Sekiya
- Path
anonftp/pub/topcard.zip
How to install it
What to send to the palmtop saves 15.7 KB
These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.
-
TOPCARD.EXM→ A:\SOFT aplicación del System Manager 2.8 KB -
TOPVIEW.EXM→ A:\SOFT aplicación del System Manager 2.5 KB
No need to put
TOPCARD.TXT, MAKEFILE, TOPCARD.C, TOPCARD.JPN:
they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 15.7 KB on a 1 MB disk.
Steps
- Copy TOPCARD.EXM, TOPVIEW.EXM to A:\SOFT. It is a System Manager application: register it in App Manager with F2 (Add), giving the full path (for example A:\SOFT\TOPCARD.EXM).
- The 200LX takes 8 EXM applications at most. Check with F8 (List) in App Manager: an asterisk in the Status column means the quota is full and you will need MoreEXM.
Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.
The author's instructions
[4] Installation
Add TopCard.exm to MoreEXM. You can use any start key.
My recommendation is any unused key from [ALT]+[1] to
[ALT]+[9]. You can change the key assignment by EXkey
afterwards.
The menu of the TopCard.exm looks better, if it is displayed
as an overlapped window on the topcard. You should set the
option of MoreEXM to keep the launched application from
clearing the screen. Moreexm.ini should contain the
following line, if you chose [ALT]+[7] as a start key.
a:\bin\topcard.exm,7E00,1,TopCard
If you are using JKIT (Japanese language kit), its LXJEX.SYS
enables EXkey to recognize the current task. You can use
this function to make the [MENU] key to work as a start key,
by adding the following definition to exkey.ini.
<JTASK0.EXE>
{Menu}={Alt+7}
where JTASK0.EXE is the task name of the topcard task.
Please refer to the user's guides of MoreEXM and EXkey, if
you are not certain of their usages.
Literal excerpt from TOPCARD.TXT, exactly as it came in the package.
Package contents
Send to my palmtop
The palmtop must be waiting before you press the button, or the transfer will fail. It is the palmtop that announces it is ready, not the other way round.
Your browser cannot talk to the serial port. Direct sending uses the Web Serial API, which only exists in Chrome, Edge and Opera on desktop — not in Firefox, Safari or any mobile browser.
Download the file with the button above and copy it to the palmtop your usual way.