MagicFM diskette
MagicFM diskette
MagicFM (MFM), not to be confused with MFM hard drives, stands for Magic File Manipulator. This is a TI Extended BASIC program that allows you send and receive software via X-Modem protocol. This means you can download a TI file from the internet on to your PC and then transfer it to your TI with this program. On the PC you will need a term program to send the file and HyperTerm comes with Windows and does the trick. If you have a Mac then you will need something like ZTerm or White Knight. Magic FM was shown, including a complete listing, in the Vol 13, No 6 issue of Micropendium. It was pointed out that MagicFM has some embedded Assembly code so you can't type it in from the listing.
You can get a PC99 image from WHTECH at: ftp://ftp.whtech.com/pc99/micropendium/961112.dsk
or a v9t9/mess format here http://www.errorfree.de/Menu08.html
This program REQUIRES 32k and extended basic, and obviously a disk drive and controller.