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Nice! In Forth you can just poke the parallel port directly. Should be super simple.

Wow! You hear that? That was the sound of me falling off my chair!

Be very very careful when desoldering. My advice would be to cut the old chips out. Then, turn the board over, and, from the solder side, apply heat with the iron, melt the solder, and pull the pin out from the component side. When you've done that, the hole in the board will probably re-flow with solder. No problem, apply heat again, and go in with the solder sucker. Don't use that braid shi*t! I've always done it this way and never borken a pad/trace. In fact, to remove chips/components, I actually add new solder! I re-solder the hole, and pull the part out while the solder is hot, then go back in again with the solder sucker and suck the solder out.

Nice! Great job! (BTW: I just recently bought a beautiful Dallas era Schecter Custom Strat )

This is one of the best XB games I've played in a long time. My only suggestion would be to lose the flashing arrow and simply replace it with the actual dice that you're about to launch! Brilliant game.

Wow! Awesome! For those having difficulty with the online compiler, unzip the attached into Classic99 DSK1 folder, then start XB and type: OLD DSK1.basic.bin Then RUN Cool stuff! basic_prog.zip

How about a / for signed division, and a \ for unsigned division? Why you would want signed division in an assembler is beyond me, but I suppose we should stay with the TI standard. \ as unsigned seems more useful to me, however.

It would still officially be a one day event - we don't want to tread on Hal's toes - he does a great job and the Chicago show deserves the support of everybody. A second day, if it comes off, would be an unofficial get together either in someones hotel room or a small conference room or something, and basically be a hack-fest where we can all just geek out, talk TI, show projects, get help for projects, etc. For folks who have travel a long way (like me) a two day event is more attractive.

It's bizarre that the TS-1000 (ZX81) is actually less capable than the Aquarius, yet it is universally loved (at least in the UK and Europe), whereas the Aquarius has colour, sound, and a cartridge port, and is a LOT faster, yet is universally hated! I guess it's because the ZX81 was one of the very first home computers (you could buy it in kit form), whereas the Aquarius was launched into a mele of machines all competeing, and was obsoloete even before it was launched! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel_Aquarius

Get the buffers in the Flex interface changed, and, while you're at it, the buffers in the console, too (they're at the side, right next to the expansion port). These machines are also at the age where the originally fitted capacitors are going to fail. We're seeing that in the ZX Spectrum world - degrading TV output signal. Changing the caps in the RF modulator instantly fixes the problem. I would not be surprised if the various smoothing caps fitted both in the console, and in the expansion cards, are beginning to fail.

How do you entertain two poorly children (tonsillitis) on a wet Sunday afternoon? ALPINER! https://youtu.be/KA3Hp0ELTVQ

Ha ha! I ain't biting

I dunno. Spares are in very short supply. For example I would mind 10 to 15 bucks for a replacement keyboard. The cart connectors is also a good idea. Of course, if you're lucky then you pick up entire consoles quite cheap - but not so much in Europe. Also, if you're running a heavily moddded console (day you've removed the VDP team and fitted an F18A then repairing your existing system would be preferable to replacing it. I just hope he doesn't chop *too* many consoles :-)

Looks like a good book. Getting good reviews: http://www.terriblenerd.com/

Glam rock. Crap. But good. I've had a few drinks. I'll stop now!

All entirely true. And is still got the mojo because it's so fucking out there. That's why it's cool. It's cool in a crap kind of way. Like the ZX80 which is utterly shit! Just think: ABBA. Kind of crap, but really good at the same time. Not sure if our American friends understand the ABBA thing. Not sure if I do, either! :-)

It's in the green book :-)

If it were put in a console it would need a switch to enable/disable RAM in the 8K area at >2000 and the 24K area at >A000 as some cards that you might put in a PEB (i.e. RAM disks) supply that RAM.

The entire machine, from PCB to software, to case, to keyboard, literally designed and built in Steve Vicker's dining room. Pissed his wife right off, it did. That stuff just doesn't happen any more. Those WERE the days! Cool little box. I'd take one over a ZX81 any day!

Here's what I posted on YouTube: What about the ORIC1, the machine that couldn't even read back its OWN data files from tape, never mind tapes you bought from the highstreet. Sorry, but this is the biggest bunch of retro-computer FAIL I've seen in a long time. Top of the FAIL pile. That's a FAIL, by the way. Being top FAIL is not a good thing. FAIL.

They didn't even mention the Mattel Aquarius; the machine that is universally agreed to be the biggest pile of turd ever to be rendered to a printed circuit board. Twats.

#4 - Netbooks. What a dick. #3 - Commodore 128. What a total moron. #1 - Everything made by Packard Bell. Well, that was a waste of 6 minutes.

yeah, space or enter or something.

+1

That made me laugh out loud! You make it sound like it was the throwing up that was awesome! <-- spewing icon!