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Well Harry, you gave us the Basic Sandbox, so I am fairly confident you can overcome that challenge with the appropriate motivation. Now what that motivation might be remains a bit nebulous...

No book purges here (Blasphemy!). As a matter of fact, I have found that programming books written in the 80's and early 90's were of much better quality than most of the trash I find today. As a matter of fact, I have completely stopped purchasing programming-related books online, particularly Amazon, because I cannot really browse the book and judge its content. I only go to brick and mortar book stores for this.

I'm going to build one as soon as I get the SD card logger. It will be perfect for my CC40 wireless weather station base. Thank you for developing this much needed device!

I bought that book in the 90's but only read it 20 odd years later. Average time frame for me

Nothing ever is. But the result would be so awesome!

I think a text prompt is sufficient. Color preference is a very personal thing

I have been agonizing over which storage solution I need. I already have a 1MB RAMDISK which works great, but I always worry about losing programs if/when the backup batteries die, and I wanted a more permanent option. I do have an RS232 HDX card and that works, but I don't really want to have my TI tied down to my laptop all the time. In the end, it boiled down to 2 currently available options: the new run of IDE cards and the TIPI-PEB. After much deliberation, I have settled on the TIPI because it provides additional cool capabilities (internet, mouse etc...) on top of nearly unlimited storage whereas the IDE card is strictly storage. Having both a TIPI and an IDE card made little sense even though every fiber in my body is itching to get one anyway. I must resist! There is of course Ralph's SD-based solution on the horizon, but I'll cross that bridge when it is finalized...

Nice work! Too bad we can't have the XB editor in 80 columns as well... Is that even possible?

Since the TIPI-PEB has not been available for a while, I'm going to go ahead and order my own PCB and populate it. I downloaded the GERBER zip file from the Github, so my question is does it contain all the needed files for the PCB manufacturer? Are there any other files I need to download. Also, any recommendations on a PCB house?

Mind blowing... I so wish we had that back in 1981!

Does this require the F18A?

I stand corrected

I was just about to respond to Tursi similarly. I have tried, and failed, to use recursion with XB previously. And I disagree that recursion is not a powerful tool in the right hands as it can simplify coding tremendously for certain tasks. It can be difficult to wrap your head around it though. I do use it extensively in my chess program in UCSD Pascal to iterate through all the pieces.

TI LOGO also supports recursion, a powerful feature. I have never truly explored TI LOGO except superficially, but perhaps I need to take a closer look. I have a hunch it is far more capable than it's reputation suggests...

Just wondering where progress was on this project.

Cool! Now what do you envision the main use for that cart will be?

Yeah but when you are dead it no longer does matter now, does it

Ah yes, how long are we accountable for our public words? People's views do change with time as they get older and wiser, and I don't think an opinion expressed impulsively at 25 years of age should be held against you at 50. But does the internet ever really forget anything?

Hint: Use HCHAR or VCHAR

This is weird, since the bitmap routines were implemented for GPL. And yes, the Geneve implementation is much more interesting and capable. Nonetheless having Fortran on the TI 99 was still an outstanding achievement.

Lucky Luke!!!

Is the main documentation still the same as version 1? Would you mind posting the additional version 3 documentation?

That looks like a great extension to TP99. Perhaps it's worth revisiting that package after all... Thank you for all the detailed instructions!

I also bought it new back in the day and I finally decided to read it a month ago Really great book. And yes, all the algorithms for polygon rendering are there with code examples.

This book from 1993 is all about 3D rendering with very lucid explanations and plenty of code examples. I used it to do the Fortran 99 3D wireframe demo having started knowing very little about the subject.