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Honestly I'd be more inclined to wait for you to finish your work in your own time than to ask for an expedited run of the old solution. I'm just eager like everyone else here. Do you think the MK2 might surface before 2020 or are we more likely looking at next year?

I should probably mention that I'm here to buy one of Matthew's chips. Doesn't matter to me if it's old or new. I only want to replace my video processor with something I can plug into an lcd. Doesn't matter if it's the old version or a new one, and I don't care about features at all. I just want to spend my money on something he made, as soon as possible. To be clear, I will spend double on an old chip of his. I've been trolling this forum for months just waiting for something to come out, or old stock to be available. I don't care at all about new features. I just want a chip. Please sell me a chip. Mark it up all you want, I don't care. Add all the features you like. That's great. Just sell a chip to me.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that new hardware or features don't fragment the community a little bit. I'm only saying that I suggest most people involved in this specific piece of hardware are probably not using it as a daily driver, and are probably aware of and likely willing to spend a few dollars on things that make it better. If not, they're probably playing munchman (like me) and just seeing what happens in the community through other people they know, maybe owing to you, since you use forums.

To be fair, the ti-99 users around the world who are not actively looking for enhanced chips or chipsets are more than likely in the minority. I don't have any numbers and I'm sure nobody does, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet than the vast majority of active ti-99 users or enthusiasts like myself are on either this forum or a similar one elsewhere in the world.

It's been a couple of weeks, how are things coming along on the MK2?

Thanks, that worked perfectly. The keyboard I was using didn't have a ScrlLock key so I had to dig one out, but now it's detecting the joysticks fine! I did bookmark ninerpedia for future reference, as I'm sure it will come in handy. It doesn't look promising that I'll be able to map "BACK" and "QUIT" in any useful way (please correct me if I'm mistaken), but simply being able to use a controller and a fire button is a night and day improvement

After spending a few days trying basically every ti99 emulator out right now, I finally have the latest version of MAME64 running, loading and playing Hunt the Wumpus. While I consider this a great victory, my problem now is that I can't find any way of changing the inputs for TI emulation to, say, a controller, or even different keyboard keys. Everything I find on the web suggests that pressing TAB from inside the game should bring up a menu where I could change Input (General) and update inputs as needed. Presumably this would change inputs for the entire ti99_4a subsystem, and I'm fine with that, but the problem is that TAB doesn't bring up any kind of menu at all. Probably it's being rendered as a keystroke within the emulation core and not as a control key for MAME or something like that. Either way, I very much need a way of remapping inputs for the platform in MAME. Anyone able to help with that? I do have xpadder available, but I'm not having great luck with that (though it has worked fine everywhere other than in MAME and could conceivably be user error). Either way, if there's a way to natively assign inputs in MAME itself, rather than keyboard emulation in xpadder or joy2key or whatever, it would be preferable.