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Is there a spot for a diode on here so that you can use three AA Lithium batteries and have the unit not charge them?

But the problem is that if there's no new content on Yahoo... what is there to browse? No matter what the preference is, the reality is that almost 99% of the content is here for development/engineering/etc. There's a small amount of content on Facebook, which is the second "largest" site. To me, it's wasting time and effort... if someone wants to do so, they can, but unless some mass exodus provides a reason for the community to leave its home here, I don't see a move to a new community happening. Our Atlanta Historic Computing Society moved off of Yahoo Groups to the free Groups.io (which IMHO does everything needed) - but we were going from Yahoo to somewhere else and didn't have an already active community on a place like Atari Age.

Completely agree. Why even migrate it? It’s dead. Nobody goes there. Any why pick the paid version of groups.io when there’s a free version? Nobody’s going to be on the list because the community is here.

From Yahoo today: Dear Group Moderators and Members, Thank you for your commitment to Yahoo and for helping us define the power of digital communities. Eighteen years ago, we combined the functionality of a site called eGroups.com with a precursor community platform called Yahoo Clubs to launch Yahoo Groups. Since then, you and millions of others have helped prove our hypothesis, by creating and joining more than 10 Million groups. A lot has changed about the Internet since 2001, including the ways most people now use Yahoo Groups. Today, most Yahoo Groups activity happens in your email inbox, not on the bulletin boards where Yahoo Groups started in the pre-smartphone age. Increasingly, people want content and connections coming directly to them, and this is why we continue to invest in Yahoo Mail -- including the recent launch of a new Yahoo Mail app that is currently the highest-rated email app in the App Store and Google Play. So, as our users’ habits have evolved, we have begun the process of evolving our approach to help active Yahoo Groups thrive and migrate to our email platform. To help you plan for these changes, below is the schedule of how this transition will happen. Beginning October 28, 2019: Users will be able to join a Yahoo Group only through an invite from the Group Moderator or by submitting a request to join a Group, which requires approval by the Group Moderator. Since we are moving Group communication from posting on message boards to email distribution, uploading and hosting of new content will also be disabled on the Yahoo Groups website. Beginning December 14, 2019: All Groups will be made private and any content that was previously uploaded via the website will be removed. We believe privacy is critical and made this decision to better align with our overall principles. If you would like to keep any of the content you’ve posted or stored in the past within your Yahoo Group, please download it by December 14 by accessing this link. As these dates get closer, we will send follow-up reminders. More information about the upcoming changes can be found here. While this evolution of Yahoo Groups is inspired by how we see the platform being used today, we know change can be difficult. Here are a few important facts as we make this transition: 1. Yahoo Groups is not going away - We know that our users are deeply passionate about connecting around shared interests, and we are evolving Groups to better align with how you use it today. 2. New groups can still be formed - Users can continue to connect with others around their common bonds and interests. From animal rescues to sporting and activity groups, civic organizations to local PTAs, members of our Yahoo Groups will remain connected and able to share their activities and interests. All of the content that you have shared previously on the website, can continue to be shared via email. We know that Yahoo Groups is an important online extension of your real-life group of friends, interests and communities, and we are committed to supporting communities that rely on Yahoo Groups. Thanks for coming along with us this far. We look forward to seeing where the technology -- and you -- take us in the decades to come. Sincerely, The Groups Team

Thanks for the clarification. However, I do see this as a trend, and wrestled with whether or not to bring it up. Whether you realize it or not, when something new comes out, you always seem to “talk down” about the older solutions. It has nothing to do with “political correctness.” Yes, cheap was a bad word - cheap is synonymous nowadays with “no quality”. Less expensive is indeed better suited. However, this phrase was also a little condescending to Jamie’s hardware: “It's like an old VW Bug, it can get you there, but sometimes issues arise along the way and it lacks comfort and features.” The Nano is still a current piece of modern hardware that Jaime maintains and updates. They sell like hot cakes. They’re easy to use, economical, and give you disk and 32K as well as serial. It’s not by far “an old VW bug.” There are many file managers like TI99dir that support point and click copy operations, and CF2K, which does the same. Bottom line is all I’m asking you to do is moderate how you talk about older hardware when newer things come out. I love your enthusiasm, don’t ever stop it - just monitor how your words may be interpreted. As someone who also makes hardware, I wouldn’t want mine being compared to “an old VW bug” either. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you are on Facebook, try bugging Berry H or another one of the European users in the TI’ers group. They might be able to help get it back.

Hey, Ohm.... I know you’re passionate for the latest and greatest, but please quit putting down other people’s hardware. The nanoPEB is a perfectly serviceable expansion and works quite well.

You would be a great person as well. Maybe trading it back and forth would be beneficial.

We should put the archive that someone made in the links thread. Also maybe think of contingency plans for exporting AA someone too one day just in case. https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/16/yahoo-groups-to-shut-down/

I have an idea as well; I don’t know how feasible it is. The cpu for the CC-40 TMS70C20 has something like 2K of processor ROM in the top of the memory map where a lot of core system routines were held (Hexbus, file saving and loading, etc.) The TI-74 used a TMC70C40, and had 4K of processor ROM, including the data routine that pulsed the MSB or LSB Hexbus line to save/load from cassette. TI-74: F000-FFFF - 70C46 ROM (4K) CC-40: F000-F7FF - Unused (2K) F800-FFFF - 70C20 Processor ROM (2K) I wonder if we can overlay the 4K of processor ROM from the CC-40+ that Ksarul has into a regular 40 and then put some resistor dividers or other cleanup circuitry and make a cassette cable for the 40?

Please let this go to someone who will clean this up, and restore it and take good pictures for the community. I highly suggest Ksarul.

You guys mean something like this? They were prototyped, and went over Hexbus. The Editor Assembler for the CC-40 can use it. Michael Becker of SNUG actually rebuilt the prototype. Someone, somewhere has the schematics (like the guy who sent me these pictures.)

Count me in for a couple 8M. One thing I really want to figure out is that TI Workshop somehow wipes my RAM disks when I used it.... so must have been some errant writes over the DSR space. In case anyone wants to debug :-). It’s a long standing bug in the CRU and 379 bank switch versions.

Assembly dumps that SNUG (M. Becker) made a while back somehow. There’s a disc floating around on here with the proper dumps that work in the HSGPL that I imaged. https://atariage.com/forums/topic/184672-mb-cartridge-with-1k-of-ram/ Someone should really sticky the MBX disk images in the software thread, as I seem to search for it every year or so. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You guys should read the TI source code for the console GROMs.. some fun stuff in here. Console GROM Source Code 1-Monitor 1982-08-25 Console GROM Source Code 2-Cassette 1982-08-25 Console GROM Source Code 3-EDIT-HC 1982-08-25 Console GROM Source Code 4-PSCAN 1982-08-25 Console GROM Source Code 5-FLMGR 1982-08-25 Console GROM Source Code 6-EXEC 1982-08-25 Console GROM Source Code-Monitor Page 33 console source.zip

Another Georgia guy! Yep, it’s been a scorcher of a summer.

Did you build the cheat codes in? You should also announce any beta here so we can have fun.... 🙂 As the one that posted the scanned Munchman source code up here (I got it directly from John Phillips), I'm pretty impressed with your iOS app! I also think I put Moonmine and Hopper up there, and there might be some more.

Speaking of reconditioned, I took apart a reconditioned unit that was turning on to a white screen this past weekend. We checked the power, and were getting a solid plus and minus five and plus 12. Unseated and reseated the 9918A. There wasn’t a sound chip power up or such - no noise and no “shutting up” nor beep. The power supply transformer and cable worked fine on another TI, so we ruled them out. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Definitely. His basement must be packed!

Very slick, Matt!

A lot of this stuff wasn't even tested against a /4. The /4 also doesn't do ROM only carts (or at least the one that I have doesn't.)

Thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/257923-replacing-4116-ram-with-4164-for-reliability/

Here's what the copy protection looked like on Red Baron back before it was put on cart... Anders actually figured out some of this protection that Larry Hughes with Quality 99 Software did another variant of before. It was actually pretty ingenious... and he changed/improved it with Red Baron Flight Simulator on disk. Copy-C, if it was available back then, could have easily just copied the whole disk. PC99 vs Red Baron.pdf

I respect your opinion. I just don’t necessarily agree with it. Let’s take preservation out of the realm of computers, and say, old houses. Or old schematics for tube radios. Or old paintings that go into a museum. There’s plenty of room for preservation of something without widespread distribution. Museums often hang pictures up for the public to see that belong to someone else, but the owner of the piece reserves the rights to sell merchandise like print copies. The public can still appreciate it, experience it, just can’t take it home. Now, what if the picture was left in someone’s house and then they had a fire? Nobody would have experienced the picture, photographed them standing next to it, saw what it looked like, been able to buy a print copy of it, etc. For all intents and purposes, it’s like a copy of vapor ware or becomes urban legend. Preservation for a picture means bringing it out and making it known, copying it and making prints and selling these to people so it gains widespread knowledge. The point is that it’s preserved, or put into other media, so that it’s not lost. Do owners of paintings do this preservation because they are required to? No, on the contrary, it’s done for the greater public good. They know that the people that created these works originally intended them to be shared, known, and talked about. They know that the more people know, experience, and have exposure to the work, the better known it becomes, and that does increase the value. Atari is the ultimate owner of these ROMs and can release them tomorrow. In the meantime, they’ve abandoned them, and left them in the hands of a few individuals who really don’t seem to understand preservation for the public good. Atari was a public facing entity that had much impact in many people’s lives. Should a video game that they made and abandoned be treated like a newfound Picasso that the owner allows copies to be made of? Just some food for thought. The owners of the cabinets don’t own the data on the ROMs at all. It’s not theirs. In a sense, are they able to dictate the public good of keeping that game rom contents from being preserved? Or, does the public good dictate that it be copied and some sort of preservation applied to it in case something happens to those cabinets? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk