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  4. Posted

    I keep a landline just to suck up the spam calls. Never gets picked up and I use that phone number anytime I need to give a number to some online outfit that "requires" it 😈.

    I mean come on, who outside of family and close friends actually makes legitimate calls anymore? OK maybe the appliance service person telling me they are 5 minutes from the house... Even my dentist just sends text messages for appointment reminders.

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  5. Posted

    8 hours ago, [email protected] said:

    WOW! Just finished reading this entire thread. I used the TI-99/4A UCSD PASCAL with P-CODE card in the late 80's when I was in college.  I think I was the only student using the TI at University of Iowa in the 80's.  The Terminal Emulator did great connecting to main frames so I could upload my code, test it on the University's systems, then print my code on greenbar sheets and turn it in to the TA. 

     

    I'm buying a fairly complete system with a P-CODE card, so going to start looking for the Editor, Compiler and Linker software online.  

     

    (If anyone has a complete set of the original manuals and disks, let me know.)

     

    Thanks! Ron

    Hi Ron.

    All the disk images are here.

  7. Posted

    On 6/12/2018 at 12:09 PM, Shift838 said:

     

    yes, Pyramid of Doom gave me some issues but i was dedicated and at the time it was the only adventure game I had so I got through it.

     

    I'm mapping out a new Pyramid of Doom sequel right now.

    I finally broke down after 30+ years and looked up hints for it. I was primarily stuck on the iron statue and quite honestly the solution was incredibly unintuitive and non-sensical. All the other puzzles made some sense and were solvable with some logical thinking, but not this one, and I could have tried for another 100 years and not found a solution on my own. Now I am weary of investing time on playing the other Scott Adams adventures for fear of hitting similar snags. There is nothing more frustrating to me than illogical puzzles...

    Rant over :)

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  14. Posted

     

    On 9/26/2020 at 8:44 AM, J-Data said:

    I saw very similar issue a while back, but it cleared up with a Tipi update, I think to 2.5.  Does not seem to be misbehaving for me now.   I had to reenter my password but I do get the top score list, and chess is not getting scrambled anymore for me. 

    Update 2.8 went without a hitch, but unfortunately I still have the same issues with Chess and Snek. Weird...

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  16. Posted

    Hi.

    I got a question from Brett about not being able to run Eliza from tape in XB with 32K. I don't see why he shouldn't be able to do it so I thought I'd pick your brains here :) Here's the original message:

     

    My name's Brett and I'm a TI user in Memphis. I've been downloading games from your site, converting them to wav files, and playing them out to my TI. And I recently found a PEB at an estate sale, and have been trying out some 32k XB games. Everything's been working great so far!

     

    I've hit a snag with "Eliza" (eliza.bin, not TI Psychiatrist). Your site says I shouldn't need to use a disk, just a cassette, and the game runs perfectly in Classic99. On my TI, though, the game loads, the data looks right, and it runs - but I get an error code after I type my first answer.

     

    This might be something particular to the program that I need to figure out, but I was wondering if there was some common reason a program would work in Classic99, but fail on the hardware. Or does this program actually need to run from a disk?

     

    (The error code, for what it's worth, is "SYNTAX ERROR IN 1780 IN VARI CALLED FROM 340") 

     

     

     

    Eliza

  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, jedimatt42 said:

     

    Out of curiosity, what devices are you deleting from? I seem to recall you had an IDE controller, and now a TIPI. The TIPI way to do this would be to open up the share on a modern PC, and use that modern PC for what it is good for. 

     

    But I see the value of these in spinny disk situations. They are added to the github issues list.

    I'm deleting a directory in TIPI. I no longer have the IDE card.

    Yes of course I could go to a modern PC and do all that, but I like using the TI as much as possible :)

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  19. Posted

    I realized yesterday that the RMDIR command does not work on non-empty directories. And the DELETE command does not accept * as an argument, so I have to delete all the files in a directory one by one before being able to delete the directory itself.

    Therefore a wish list:

    • DELETE * to delete all files in a directory (with a confirmation prompt)
    • RMDIR with a switch for deleting all sub-directories and files in the requested directory

    Easier said than done, hence the wish part :)

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  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, brain said:

    Additional testing looks good, one more bug fix for reading a directory via program, so I've merged the code into master.  Evidently, I cannot create a Github release on a generic commit on a branch, which was where 0.9.2.0 and 0.9.2.1 was, so I bumped the version to 0.9.3.0 and created a release:

     

    https://github.com/go4retro/HEXTIr/releases/tag/v0.9.3.0

     

    Jim

     

    How does one issue the directory commands on the CC40?

  21. Posted

    5 minutes ago, brain said:

    Small fix for serial routines (code was not allowing bps rate change) and a minimal implementation of reading the firmware version back (open the command channel and read a string).  Version bump to 0.9.2.1.  Have not heard anyone testing the code, so not sure of status, but my testing has been successful, and I am currently considering the system feature complete.

     

    I also uploaded the working bootloader for the non Arduino (standalone) version of the device (https://github.com/go4retro/HEXTIr-bootloader).  With this, a self contained professionally produced unit that automatically updates itself is possible.  Let me know if there is any interest.  Expected cost would be around $50.00.

     

    Jim

    Jim, count me in for 1 unit

  24. Posted

    On 9/29/2020 at 11:26 AM, RXB said:

    There are 2 TI Basic programs that crash RXB but both use features only found in GROM2 of TI Basic which of course RXB does not use.

    Honestly both are fudging a feature of TI Basic and both are not mentioned anywhere for use.

    I did fix one of them so it was not a big problem but did at least error out instead of totally locking up RXB.

    The other just crashes like previous one mentioned and will not run. So not a big deal as neither will ever be used.

    Now I'm even more curious! What are these 2 mystery programs? 

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