Omega-TI Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Let's see. 23 were sold. 2 were gifted. 3 people posses the code, 1 of which I know for sure made a cartridge. I'm taking 16 cartridges to Chicago, two of which are promised out. I also have 5 programmed chipsets which I'll be taking to Chicago which can be made into carts with boards that will be available there. Oh yea, I have one. So there is a possibility of 48 total after the Faire. Gazoo 27 currently in use already! Well if that's not an overwhelming success, nothing is. Congratulations! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Option "U" suddenly seems to hang my Ti. The Compact Flash HDXS tool DID originally run but has suddenly started hanging my console instead. If I use the cartridge's A/E option 6 to run a program copy of CFHDXS1 from a disk image on the nanoPEB it runs just fine. (I'm using the CFHDXS1_PATCHED.dsk version, originally downloaded from the nanoPEB homepage - http://webpages.charter.net/nanopeb/) Does anyone know what's happened or how I can fix this? I've tried copying fresh DSK images to a different CF card with the same results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Make it 49! Still want one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firepod Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Soon after I get my TI setup here and together, i'd want one myself so make it 50:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 There are 8 Extended Basic v2.7 cartridges left over from the Faire. To simplify things and to prevent confusion and misunderstandings I've listed them as buy it now items on ebay. Unfortunately, ebay adds a surcharge of 12.9% (Theives!), so I had to increase the price to $46. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extended-Basic-v2-7-Suite-Cartridge-/231378985072? Gazoo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 I had to increase the price to $46. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extended-Basic-v2-7-Suite-Cartridge-/231378985072? Gazoo Still well worth the $ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 Option "U" suddenly seems to hang my Ti. The Compact Flash HDXS tool DID originally run but has suddenly started hanging my console instead. If I use the cartridge's A/E option 6 to run a program copy of CFHDXS1 from a disk image on the nanoPEB it runs just fine. (I'm using the CFHDXS1_PATCHED.dsk version, originally downloaded from the nanoPEB homepage - http://webpages.charter.net/nanopeb/) Does anyone know what's happened or how I can fix this? I've tried copying fresh DSK images to a different CF card with the same results. Hmm... I doubt anything changed in the cartridge since it would be extremely unlikely that you sent the correct series of bytes to either chip to unlock them and write to them. Do all the other programs on the cart function correctly? If so, I suspect the problem lies somewhere else. Nevertheless, I can send you the files for the chips if you care to compare them to the data on the chips. The MiniPro can do this for both chips, although some careful massaging is necessary to perform this function with the 1284p. Gazoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 There are 8 Extended Basic v2.7 cartridges left over from the Faire. To simplify things and to prevent confusion and misunderstandings I've listed them as buy it now items on ebay. Unfortunately, ebay adds a surcharge of 12.9% (Theives!), so I had to increase the price to $46. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extended-Basic-v2-7-Suite-Cartridge-/231378985072? Gazoo Tony, I like the idea of linking to the manual for downloading it, but the area you have it in requires the person wanting it to be signed into Atari Age. Many people on eBay may be unaware of Atari Age. You can get around that limitation however by linking to a file in the BLOG section. The one I have posted in my blog entry should work. Try it out and see what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 Tony, I like the idea of linking to the manual for downloading the manual, but the area you have it in requires the person wanting it be signed in into Atari Age. Many people on eBay may be unaware of Atari Age. You can get around that limitation however by linking to a file in the BLOG section. The one I have posted in my blog entry should work. Try it out and see what I mean. I think I'll leave it the way it is. We could always use some more members. Gazoo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 I think I'll leave it the way it is. We could always use some more members. Gazoo <GRIN> Good idea! Hopefully they take the time, If they do, this will be a conduit for more members... of course everyones 'buddy' might lose some business when the eBay TI'ers find out they can get for free what he's been selling! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Nevertheless, I can send you the files for the chips if you care to compare them to the data on the chips. The MiniPro can do this for both chips, although some careful massaging is necessary to perform this function with the 1284p. ...If you wouldn't mind? I doubt anything has changed though I admit I find it puzzling the cart version hangs my console but the .dsk version doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firepod Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 I just ordered the extended 2.7. Thanks for posting it on Ebay!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 I just ordered the extended 2.7. Thanks for posting it on Ebay!!! Congrats you'll love it 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Got mine! YAY! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 I just ordered the extended 2.7. Thanks for posting it on Ebay!!! Got mine! YAY! Glad you guys got 'em! It's the best cartridge EVER for the TI... IMHO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Only three left... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kl99 Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 @Gazoo: your ebay settings exclude all non-US 99ers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted November 4, 2014 Author Share Posted November 4, 2014 @Gazoo: your ebay settings exclude all non-US 99ers. That's correct. I'm not comfortable shipping overseas. Several overseas buyers have had me send carts to a US address and that person forwarded it to the buyer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firepod Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Gazoo, thank you for shipping out my Cart so quickly, I am drooling here awaiting it's arrival LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 It'll be worth the wait, I can assure you. I'm beginning to realise the Ti-community is the most active here on AtariAge. Being a retro-collector, I've bought a handful of home-brew carts and interfaces from other areas of the forum but the Ti sector is most definitely the one pushing the limits of the hardware fastest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 It'll be worth the wait, I can assure you. I'm beginning to realise the Ti-community is the most active here on AtariAge. Being a retro-collector, I've bought a handful of home-brew carts and interfaces from other areas of the forum but the Ti sector is most definitely the one pushing the limits of the hardware fastest. It seems to me that things are getting done because of a sort of psuedo-teamwork, at least for the new cartridges. It wasn't a real team to speak of, but someone got an idea, someone else knew enough about hardware enough to build it, someone else knew how to describe and document it, someone else knew how to write interface code to simulate a Grom, and then I came along and wrote some TI code to make it work. If all the other steps didn't happen, I would have never been able to make a cartridge on my own. I've personally been waiting about 20 years for a cartridge I could put GPL code into, never mind the huge amount of ROM available. It's been a real happy year for me seeing my TI dream come true. Gazoo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Torrax Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 No shipping to your northern neighbour Canada?? I miss lot of items on e-Bay due to USA only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eccofonic Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Hey... I was the "man in black" who purchased a cart right after your demo in Evanston... I was wondering is the ATMega chip providing the GROM and the 49f040 the ROM? Is it possible to flash another 49f040 chip to use the other multi-game carts posted here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Note that Extended BASIC requires both ROM and GROM to work. Your assumption is correct on the function of the individual chips. It is possible to flash another 49F040 (or a 29F040) to use the board as a game cartridge, however, the ATMEL would also have to be removed for it to work properly, as the GROM side power up routine (and a fragmentary set of utilities) would still be present otherwise. One other heads-up. I put 25LS07 chips on most of the UberGROM boards as opposed to 74LS378s when I built them for Gazoo. This has no effect on the UberGROM images Gazoo made, as his power-up routine forces them to start at bank >6000. The 25LS07s are otherwise the most random chips I have ever seen when it comes to start-up banks--so when using the cartridge in multi-purpose mode it would be a good idea to change that chip out for a 74LS378 that you know starts in the first or last bank (the majority of them do, but not all, so you might have to test a couple of them to get one that works as expected). I test each cartridge board (Red 512K type) with a program that shows me the starting bank before shipping them out--and those chips that start in anything but first or last bank are put aside for use in UberGROM boards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99er Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Just bought one - thanks, that was much easier than trying to PM you. (In other words, you can ignore the PM I sent you a while ago!!) Thanks, Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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