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Just curious: what's the other 0.1% that trips RXB and XB GEM?

Welcome to the geriatric club 😄

2.7. That should be latest, correct? This is what chess looks like on my system.

I am able to log in, so that's not the issue. Also there is a problem with the chess program display. It just shows some lines but nothing else. Can anyone else here try these 2 programs and report back? Perhaps it's local to me only...

Ralphb's SDD 99 expansion card [ SDD 99 thread ]currently under active development actually incorporates a full p-code card. This is great news since p-code cards are quite hard to find in the wild these days.

Did not think of doing that! Pretty nifty and saves the trouble of transferring the files to the TI subsequently.

Actually being able to print to the TIPI is super useful when developing programs on the TI itself. I will definitely be using that feature quite a bit.

The assembly version of the Dow Gazelle flight simulator is the BHXP1 Experimental Aircraft by Bruce Hellstrom. It's essentially the same program but converted to assembly. Obviously much more responsive Instruments only. Editor/Assembler cart option 5. Program name is BHXP1. BHXP.dsk

While exploring Platoterm with my TIPI set up, I came across a great planetarium program as part of an astronomy lesson. Really cool! Compare that to my primitive planetarium program from 2007 (Sky Chart) If you have not already done so, you should really give Platoterm a good look. It has vast amounts of knowledge on all sorts of topics and was quite advanced for its time.

So 230 is then the device number. Got it. I'm happy to write a short usage document, but I first need to know how everything works. Can we clarify the usage of the LUN 255 feature?

Nope. That's already set to Yes. It's not it.

I've sent you a message a couple of days ago. It appears that SNEK has lost all the high scores and is not registering new ones. Not sure what happened...

I remember that one! It was a Compute magazine type in. Played it quite a bit

Thanks! Looking at the clock listing, I see that we are opening a file called "230" without a device prefix to get the clock reading. Is that the process? Incidentally, I don't see any use documentation for any of these new features (Clock, LUN 255, Set Clock, directory) which obviously will not be in the CC40 manual. Are there plans to do so?

Dang Lee! I've never had to use punched cards thankfully. My earliest experience with mainframes was in college at McGill while taking a Pascal class as an elective, but we had terminals for program entry although the output came out over at the batch line printer and we would go pick it up a day later only to find that the program had crashed... Mind you at the time I already had a TI 99/4A but only the console and a tape deck (we're talking circa 83), which felt kind of like a toy although I did manage to program and run statistical analysis programs in TI BASIC for my experimental neurobiology class (characterization of the cricket's wing stretch receptor - I was a neurobiology major). I did not have a printer, so I would dutifully write down each result. Tedious as hell. Ah the good old days That said, we did have a minicomputer in high school with 6 ascii terminals which I used with an introductory Fortran class I nearly flunked. I hated Fortran at the time, and looking at the course manual which I still have, I can see why: dry as hell. Funny thing is I re-learned it from the LGMA manual and it was actually quite enjoyable this time around. I still think Fortran is clunky as a language, but interesting nonetheless.

Jim, do you have a listing for the clock program? I'm looking for the capability of reading the clock from within a Basic program instead of a standalone utility. This would be helpful for timing and such among other things.

Wonderful! That's nifty.

Ah got it. So how do you access the RTC time and date from the CC40? Can you set the clock from it as well?

Personally I just don't have the time to add yet another group to my list. AA seems to be where most of the action that interests me is and there is already too much fragmentation of the community when it comes to online space (just look at FB alone...).

RTC? Where would that come from?

What was the issue?

I think it's easier to manage attendance via private email instead of having to scan a long thread on AA interspersed with random comments. Let's leave conspiracy theories alone, shall we?

Handy feature indeed. It's going into my reference notes.

I have a 4 character string which I want to split into 2 sub-strings each 2 characters long. The following gives an error 125 (type error) which I assume is because the concat intrinsic is being passed characters rather than strings. program test; var pmove,pto,pfrom : string; begin readln(input,pmove); pfrom:=concat(pmove[1],pmove[2]); pto:=concat(pmove[3],pmove[4]); writeln(pfrom,pto); end. I there another way of doing this? EDIT: Ok figured it out using the copy function. prom:=copy(pmove,1,2); pto:=copy(pmove,3,2); I am now keeping this little handy UCSD Pascal reference card on hand to help with remembering what's available on the system... UCSD Pascal Quick Reference Card.pdf

That manual states that Backend Error 8 is triggered when the jump table has more than 400 entries. I'm pretty certain I don't have that many jumps in the procedure in question, so I'm guessing the TI implementation has a smaller jump table limit? In any case, braking up the procedure into two separate procedures solved the problem