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Everything is in RAM as it's a very short program more meant as a proof of concept

Works great, with the caveat that the XB program must be launched from FC in order to be able to return to it. Otherwise it will hang.

I tried upgrading via the TI from version 2.4 to 2.5 but the upgrade just hung and I couldn't access the TIPI subsequently. So I had to SSH into the PI and do a manual upgrade which fixed the issue without any loss of data. I presume this issue should now be solved with 2.5?

I thought I had tested it previously and it did not work. Turned out I had used PRINT instead of CALL LINK("PRINT") to check the contents of A$, and of course it printed out a blank. Sorry about that. Now the prompt with INPUT makes much more sense

Indeed. Unfortunately this does not work with T80XB.

If we want to think along the lines that the T80 PRINT and INPUT statements are more similar to the DISPLAY AT and ACCEPT AT of XB, then really there should be no option to have a text prompt in the INPUT statement because it defeats the purpose of the prompt if the cursor is then positioned at the start of it. That said, this feature would be far more useful if it could be used to display a pre-defined entry for the INPUT statement which could then be accepted by simply pressing the Enter key. Maybe something to consider. Perhaps I should have used the word "standard" instead of customary, as there is no BASIC that I am aware of which allows a prompt with INPUT and puts the input cursor at the beginning of said prompt instead of at the end. But hey, it is in the end your software and you are free to create your own conventions. We, the users, should be flexible enough to accommodate that. Really nice work with T80XB. It truly opens up a lot of interesting possibilities.

Better I hate spiders...

So it looks like with the INPUT command in T80XB, when a prompt is present, the input cursor is always positioned at the beginning of the prompt rather than at the end of it as is customary. In order to fix that, I had to issue a PRINT with the prompt then a separate INPUT with coordinates at the end of the prompt. Not very efficient obviously. Is there a way this could be fixed?

Who is the author of the weather program?

You make it look so easy! You clearly have mastered these controls You only need to wash the crystals in one of the blue and the green fountains. No need to go through a second blue fountain. I'm going to work on my technique later today.

OK here's a disk image of the weather program in 80 columns that uses Senior Falcon's T80XB. Just drop it in the TIPI folder and it will automatically be converted to a folder. The program to run is WEATHER, which will automatically load T80XB and run the weather program. To run it from Force Command, change to the directory TIPI.WEATHER80 and type XB WEATHER (assuming that your XB is properly configured with FC). You can also use Mega Menu to run it as a menu entry. WEATHER80.dsk

Greg, would you mind sending the listing of that program my way?

Thanks I love the MC. Quite ingenious and very capable. As for the COMX, it's as rare as hen's teeth. I wish someone would make a replica of it... Here's a site with lots of info on it: http://www.comx35.com/comx35.html

So a couple of things I noticed with ED99-40: Pressing <ENTER> after the first line inputted moves the line down and the cursor is positioned above it. It is not possible to enter text below that first line. Is this a feature or a bug? Pasting with Ctrl-P pastes the contents of the clipboard after the End of File marker and adds yet another End of File marker. I would have thought that the pasted text will appear just above the EOF marker... Otherwise it seems to work great. I still have to test the print function on real hardware though.

You really should create a separate topic for this so the rest of us can more easily follow updates

Oh boy... The game controls are a real pain... I find it very difficult to control. My high score so far: 0 Incidentally, the version included on the 1024K Games 3 cartridge is an incomplete early version and should not be used.

Great! * by itself works just fine. I have to say that FC, in combination with TIPI and the FG99, have really elevated the whole TI experience by orders of magnitude, both from a user experience aspect as well as general reliability. Truly a remarkable achievement.

Ah got it! I still think however that environment variables should be saved by the OS on the TIPI without the need to create a script file.

Sorry for all the pestering, but I am actively learning the TIPI ecosystem... Why does the copy command not support a *.* parameter in order to be able to copy the contents of a disk in one shot?

What do you mean by that?

So a couple of observations using the XB loading feature of FC: The particular XB roms have to be in the root directory of the FG99. It would have been nice if FC was able to search subdirectories within FG99 to look for the files. It's the same issue with the fg99 command. This could be problematic as all the modules would have to be placed in the root directory of the FG99 with the resulting organizational mess... The environment variables needed to be set up for XB loading to work (I use RXB 2015) do not appear to be retained between cold starts and thus will need to be re-entered for each instance. Is there a way to change that? Otherwise, the XB function seems to be working as it should. Awesome!

Yup works fine if I am already in the FG99 as dgrissom mentioned. It was just a quirk I noticed although honestly it's much faster to just go into the FG99 and pick FC from there

I am thoroughly impressed by the IRATA.ONLINE PlatoTerm platform. The PLATO content is tantalizing and will take a long time to explore. This is a must for any TIPI owner. I set up my URI2 to HTTP://TI99.IRATA.ONLINE and access it via a CALL TIPI("URI2.PLATO"). I have also set up a Mega Menu entry for it for even easier access. You do however have to set up an account with IRATA.ONLINE first. Now if you'll excuse me I've got to go back to it for more exploration

So from a cold start, if I run CALL TIPI("TIPI.FCMD") to start Force Command, with FCMD in the root TIPI directory, the screen goes blank and green and the LED on the FG99 keeps on blinking, but nothing else happens. The Force Command files are in the root directory of my FG99. Am I doing something wrong?

I just ran the upgrade this morning and it only took less than a minute. I was honestly holding my breath the whole time as I've had issues with upgrades previously just like you describe which required a reflashing of the SD card to fix....