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  1. Posted

    14 hours ago, jedimatt42 said:

    that is super weird... 

     

    In the boot partition there is a config.txt that contains various options around the HDMI port. You might have to fiddle with some of those. 

     

    I don't generally hook a screen up to my PI's... but I have somewhat recently checked that the console comes up on my primary TIPI's PI. 

     

    The boot partition is a Windows visible partition, so if you shutdown the PI, place the SD card in your PC, you can edit the config.txt directly there. 

    While you have the SD card in your pc, you can edit your wifi settings by creating a wpa_supplicant.conf file next to it ( too many details to quote here, just google that file name and raspberry PI and you'll get good examples ). Once wifi is up, even if the HDMI doesn't work, you can SSH in for further tuning.

    Thanks for the suggestion. I was able to get the Pi on the network using the wpa_supplicant.conf method and I am able to SSH into it. Seems to work fine.

    Now the problem is that when I try to boot the TI, I get a solid red light on the PEB slot where the TIPI-PEB card is and a blank screen. Rebooting the PI does not solve this. Pulling the TIPI-PEB card out restores normal function. I'm starting to wonder that given all the weird issues I have been experiencing lately the TIPI-PEB card is faulty somehow...

    I'm going to try to flash the Pi one more time tonight and see if it changes things although I'm not too hopeful.

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  2. Posted

    I re-flashed my SD card for my PEB-TIPI tonight with version 2.5, and now it won't show an IP address on the configuration screen. I tried to log on to the raspberry pi directly to try to set the network manually, but when it boots it does no give a log on prompt but the screen goes blank after a bunch of services are run and I cannot access it. 

    With the older images I used to get a log on prompt. Any idea what's going on?

  5. Posted

    I would be curious to see how many users with at least 1 fully set up TI system also have other vintage systems fully set up as well (NOT sitting on a shelf or in storage but actively being used).

    Personally, I have a Coleco Adam system which is in very active use  and it has been heavily competing for my limited free time lately with the TI system, at least until my next TI project 😁

    I'm sure I'm not the only one by far with active interests in multiple vintage system...

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  6. Posted

    35 minutes ago, mizapf said:

    Hobby astronomers may know that feeling: "Now is that sharper or not? Can't really tell." I used the magnifying function of my a58 for manual focusing (and I have a focus motor 🙂 ).

    Yup, and it gets worse with age 😄 I am going to try to 3D print a Bahtinov mask for my 8" dobs to help with that (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1987284).

    I woke up at 0400 today to snap pictures of the moon, but it turned out to be too hazy for anything useful. Rats...

    On the upside, I did recently score a brand new in box Meade Deep Sky Imager for $40 on Facebook Marketplace, an excellent imager coupled with a very capable software even though it's probably close to a decade old by now. It can automatically take dark images and bias shots, interval imaging as well as automatic tracking and stacking of the images. I did manage to get the driver and software working on my Win10 laptop and I'm going to be taking it for a spin at the observing field sometime this week. It's unseasonably warm in MN now, so I'm going to take full advantage of it!

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  7. Posted

    On 11/27/2020 at 3:31 PM, mizapf said:

    The Moon is still here. Pictures taken on Nov 27, 2020 21:30 CET, almost full phase; Meade LX200 with focal reduction f/6.3, Sony a58 attached. Exposure 1/100 s, ISO 100. Result of 16 stacked shots.

     

    When I noticed that the left edge was blurred, I went back to the telescope to do some more shots, but haze started to come in, and the telescope already became moist on all sides. So that's it for today. I suppose the blur already resulted from moisture that gathered on the corrector plate.

    mond3.jpg

    Ah the LX-200. Classic solid scope. Very nice image.

    Tomorrow morning around 0400 local time to Minneapolis (UTC -6) will be the maximal penumbral eclipse, and it's supposed to be a clear night. I'm going to try to get a good shot of it just using my Nikon D60 with a 200mm lens (I have to be at the hospital by 0700, so no time to set up my Orion Xtg8 dobs...).

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  8. Posted

    5 hours ago, Omega-TI said:

    It actually seems like a "real computer" now...

    It's definitely less clunky from a file access standpoint at the command line. But... there is also the risk of losing the authentic "character and feel" of the old TI, which is after all a big part of the reason why we are still using that machine.

    While I certainly wholeheartedly welcome the utility of FC, I also don't want the TI to become PC-like. Now where that fine threshold resides is wholly a matter of personal opinion with no right answer. As far as I am concerned, I have not yet crossed that threshold 🙂

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  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, budz2355 said:

    What's the best way to get this to my TI?   I still havent fixed my lantronix, but I do have FG99, 5.25", 3.5" and ramdisk.   Is anyone selling physical copies?

    At this point, the best options for real hardware are either a NanoPEB/CF7+ or a TIPI. Do you have a modem or a WiModem? One option would be to put up the disk images on the Hidden Reef BBS or The Keep BBS and you can download them straight to your RAM disk unless you have drives with 360K capacity.

  12. Posted

    3 hours ago, Asmusr said:

    Did anyone but me complete the game? Did anyone have issues loading saved games? Is there a problem with the disk images (as mentioned earlier) that should be 

    Loading saved games is a little confusing. The game variables are loaded, but NOT your location. Also, if any room had changes in it graphically, they will only show up if you exit then re-enter the room. I have yet to finish the game!

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  16. Posted

    So this prompted me to dig out my old 2400bps modem and test out Term 80 with the TIPI. It works just fine, but it looks like there is an issue connecting via dialup to The Keep. There is this weird line about registration and then the bbs hangs. Same thing with TIMXT. The modem works fine with another BBS, so it's not the problem.

    Incidentally, the Hidden Reef is not answering. Is it still up? I have not connected to it in years. Come to think of it, I have not heard from Richard Bell for some time either...

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  17. Posted

    On 2/16/2020 at 1:58 PM, InsaneMultitasker said:

    Thanks Greg, worked here on TIPI and my F18A console. :)  I was reading the docs and came across this snip from the author. Pretty amazing.

     

    "Who wrote this fabulous program?

    Term 80 was programmed by myself (duh!), Jeff Brown, in Ottawa, Ontario   (Canada) on my TI computer. I'm only 15 at this moment, but I started it   11 months ago (at the end of August, '94). I'm going to be starting 10th   grade this September (god knows how boring that will be. <sigh>), but I   have receive special permission to enter the 12th grade computer couse (C)."

    I actually bought Term 80 from Jeff in 1997 I believe, but the disks apparently got lost in the mail as they I never received them and Jeff was not terribly interested in sending another set. I did not pursue the matter at the time. I did meet him at one the Chicago TI Faires maybe a decade later and he had come in dressed in a full Scottish kilt. Interesting fellow... 

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