CantStopClicking Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 That makes sense actually. After 30+ years most everybody that knew or remembers anything about the TI has probably either moved on or retired. or sadly, died... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Excellent conversion, Dano. I have scans of most of these documents--mostly made directly from original printouts that I received from several TI engineers. I've gone through the trouble to convert a few of the ones that I only had as a seriously degenerate scan from a really bad photocopy, so I understand how much work goes into restoring one of them. What does pique my curiosity is that you have some of them as original TI writer files--I didn't know of any of those files that survived in their electronic form. Color me interested! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 So, the point is, these were not reproduced by me (as in typing them in by hand). These are direct print from TI-Writer to PDF (minus the 50 steps in between). Ah, I see! So the question is should the errors be corrected? Personally, as it's no longer the original document, I would correct them. I have such experience with PDFing the Psion 3a User Guide, but I completely rewrote it in Word, corrected the odd spelling mistake and created new screen dumps. It was a labour of love. See here :- http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/pda/psion3a/Psion%20Series%203a%20User%20Guide%20enh.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantStopClicking Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Ah, I see! So the question is should the errors be corrected? Personally, as it's no longer the original document, I would correct them. I have such experience with PDFing the Psion 3a User Guide, but I completely rewrote it in Word, corrected the odd spelling mistake and created new screen dumps. It was a labour of love. See here :- http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/pda/psion3a/Psion%20Series%203a%20User%20Guide%20enh.pdf Holy crap, that's a lot of work for sure! Totally can appreciate your efforts on the Psion manual. I hate cleaning up scanned documents but if it's gotta be done, whatever the personal reason may be, so be it! I'd tend to partially disagree that this isn't the original document, as it IS the original document just printed on a newer printer (PDF in this case). Unfortunately, there's no direct way to print from TI-Writer Formatter to PDF, so I have to make a bunch of temporary technology changes in between, but none of the text was altered, it's exactly as it was printed from a TI with TI-Writer cartridge and a real printer (and from the original files from TI). I have to agree, it's not original because it wasn't printed and purchased from TI back in the day. Now, could I go into the TI-Writer files and fix the typo's? Hell yeah! But, I don't have time to, and that would definitely make them not original. The few internal TI documents that I have are laiden with typo's and technical errors and that's where I just can't fill in the gaps. If a piece of assembly code has a typo, I have no idea how to fix it. Trust me, I'd so much rather have a corrected print but the time involved is WAY over my head. Collaboration could be a good solution though. What I'd REALLY love to do is have a JAVA based TI-Writer Formatter and skip a WHOLE lot of steps of my conversion process. I'll probably end up starting a new topic for that when I'm ready to participate/help cuz I really think it would be worthwhile. Even some more simplistic like, TI-Writer to Word converter would suffice. The ugly and nasty problems begin when the TI-Writer document contains DOT matrix printer codes (ESC). Those do not port well with anything currently available today, that I could find. Although, I did come up with a not-quick-and-dirty solution! Anyhow, I want to make sure it's clear the documents I've proposing to provide, are EXACT printouts of the original TI files, zero alteration. I'm just providing a way to print TI-Writer Formatter files to PDF. -LOL- maybe that's what I shoulda said in the first message. Cheers! -D 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantStopClicking Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Excellent conversion, Dano. I have scans of most of these documents--mostly made directly from original printouts that I received from several TI engineers. I've gone through the trouble to convert a few of the ones that I only had as a seriously degenerate scan from a really bad photocopy, so I understand how much work goes into restoring one of them. What does pique my curiosity is that you have some of them as original TI writer files--I didn't know of any of those files that survived in their electronic form. Color me interested! I can't say where I came up with those but I'm pretty sure I found them on WHTech. However, they probably weren't out in the open but, more likely within a ARC file or a DSK image that I happened to stumble upon by accident. I started saving any documents like that to a special folder for later print conversion (before I had print a solution). Of course, I didn't start doing that until I realized there was a lot more documents I wanted in PDF. Then I thought to myself, hmm... maybe I need to do something like -> save them somewhere I can find them again!!! hehe I'd be more than happy to share what I find with you. I really try to keep my eye out for the original Writer files, cuz it don't get any better than that! Especially with those beat up internal docs that are hard to read and/or missing pages. I kinda figure that since most of the internal TI doc's were still "work in progress" that maybe, just maybe, the electronic form existed in order to make updates. That's just a wild theory, hunch, and/or hope. No proof what-so-ever that it's even the case at all. -D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 The electronic forms definitely existed to make updates easy, Dano--just look at the sequence of changes in each document. I'm just glad some of the original files survived, as it reduces the number of documents we need to OCR and correct manually. I've done that--it is a pain, but I'll keep on doing it because it preserves the original in the best possible way for use in the modern world. And copies of the electronic TI Writer files would be nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 (edited) Just some docs update from the TI99iuc's website i worked today : Some Reference Cards: TI-Writer TI-BASIC- (DE) TI-BASIC- (DE) TI-BASIC (USA) TI-BASIC (UK) Carte de Reference Microsoft Multiplan Microsystems (USA) Referenzkarte v2 Referenzkarte V1 Reference Card Reference Card du BASIC (FR) Reference Card (USA) CP/M (USA) and >>HERE<< the link with all the Reference Cards actually loaded in the DB section- Enjoy ! Edited July 27, 2015 by ti99iuc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 I guess I need to scan in my 1979 TI Basic Reference card to add it to the collection. . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 (edited) Because of the latest addition for Intrigue Software games, i have scanned the rare and interesting catalog and price list >> HERE << Edited August 3, 2015 by ti99iuc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted August 3, 2015 Author Share Posted August 3, 2015 In only a little over a year, it's nice to see how much good quality reference and documentation material has shown up in this (now not so little) thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 Dunno if anyone still uses this program or not, if so, having the documentation is always nice, even if you never look at it! DISK MANAGER 1000-6.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted September 1, 2015 Author Share Posted September 1, 2015 If you print and store your Shift 838 Newsletters in a three ring binder, the attached file might interest you. Just print it up, cut it out and slide it into the spine of your binder. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 (edited) If you print and store your Shift 838 Newsletters in a three ring binder, the attached file might interest you. Just print it up, cut it out and slide it into the spine of your binder. Thanks Omega! Just what I was looking for! Edited September 2, 2015 by wyerd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 (edited) in the meantime that i'm looking for docs to scan, i found this single page "TI-99/4A is Alive & Well" i sharing it, maybe it could be interesting and/or useful to something ? Edited November 3, 2015 by ti99iuc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 GROM part numbers--and a lot of them. I may have to do a sort on this and fill in the missing bits using my reference set. . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kl99 Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 very nice list, never saw that. I remember Jens-Eike told me he ordered such parts from TI instead of hunting down rare cartridges back in the days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 (from bcrandell on eBay) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Dunno if this is anywhere already, but I got it out of a never-before-opened box and gave it a good go. Ms. Pac-Man Manual (TI-99) (600dpi).pdf 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 . . hmmmmmmm, I am not sure, but I think there is some really nice homework which could be done :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Cute little labels for the IC's. I wonder if I could make one small enough for a 49F040? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Well, it's pretty plain, but I did it! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted November 18, 2015 Author Share Posted November 18, 2015 Okay, as promised, here is the Editor/Assembler - "Spine" Now if you don't want to pay a kings ransom, you can download the ZIP and print this off and then stick it in your own cheaper binder to get that 'almost original' look. It's a little large, but hey the letters HQ are in the title of this thread... ENJOY! And of course if you need the manual in PDF format: << CLICK HERE >> EA - Spine.zip 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Nicely done. You can also get the thicker textured paper stock at your local business outlet to complete the genuine look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftyde Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Anyone know if a keyboard strip for BA Writer exists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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