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  1. Posted · Edited by Gary from OPA

    Mint, in box, never opened TI 99/4a. Where do these people get these things?

     

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/251524310729?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

     

    Well he didn't need to open it, as it had a 4 opened: (That is right 4, not the 4A)

     

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ti-99-4-No-a-Computer-Texas-instruments-rare-chicklet-keyboard-no-ti-99-4a-/251523305030?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&hash=item3a8ff50e46

     

    Now that is something worth bidding on, already at $49.00, should end up at couple of hundred or more.

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    The problem with that is the person that wanted it badly shown their hand to early, there was over a minute left.

     

    If you want to win something that you know others are hot on bidding, just let it sit, don't even register one bid, then at the last 5 seconds input like a high figure the tops you are willing to do, like $600.

     

    Now because others are also sitting at screen watching, and most likely already bid on it earlier, they see it still sitting at $350 or $300 with 10 seconds to go, and figure I am ok, I put in a top of $400.

     

    And then wham you come in at least second, and eBay auto-bidder kicks in, raises it to $400 but you win at $401 shocking the other bidders that they lost.

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    Real Easter Eggs. Maybe the landfill adventure was just a big Easter Egg hunt. Still waiting for a report when they crack the domes.

    No report, as no more digging, no so looking under the cement, it was just enough of dig to do the news coverage and get some footage for their doc. Atari: Game Over, the city already reburied the trash with new sand hours afterwards on Sunday once the crew finished looking thru the little bit the was dug up for film crew and public on Sat.

     

    We will never know the real total, and actual stuff buried there, its back to being a myth, we have to take the word from people that have reappeared after all these decades that 728,000 games were buried and that it was all returned or unsold stock, and that is it.

     

    Maybe someday a real history group with its own money and some form of leverage can cut thru the red tape again and do a complete catalog of everything, but I doubt that will happen, there is so much more better landfills to look at to solve some other urban myths then just keep focusing on this one, which has almost all its facts there and solid, so it is amazing how the media and everyone keep spinning the myth out of control beyond its facts.

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    So... according to the story the city is going to dig up all the games and sell them? So, that will permanently put the myth to rest as there will no longer be an Atari landfill...

    Just more 'myth's' added to the original, they not going to, they city could not wait until the crew left, and they could fill it back up with sand and move on, they could not care less if there is 2 million or one super rare prototype or just 700,000 unsold returned games, they are glad the whole 45 day event is over and they can get back to normal business on burying trash.

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  8. Posted · Edited by Gary from OPA

    If I was so not good at Assembly, I would try this out.

     

    It really is amazing set of tools. - I will have to see if I can help out this year by sharing some of my 'assembly' stuff, it might help adding new stuff to this package, or get people to jump over to Assembly.

     

    Now we just need a GPL Development Package to get people to write new GROM based games, it really not that bad of lang. once you learn it.. :) And with UberGrom coming out, it would be nice to see some new GPL programs/apps/games to burn into it!

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    The only one I've seen is the Tennis program. The sprites that make up the players will get out of synch with each other so you have the head and shoulders swinging the tennis racket while displaced to the side are the legs and torso. It's actually rather comical to see.

     

    Yeah some programs that have timed loops for moving the sprites and detection get messed up, but it is rare as alot of them base their timing on the VDP interrupt signal which stays the same.

     

    If you want to see more messed up programs, and even corrupted writes to your floppies, and fucked up serial data in terminal programs, then you need to up the overall speed of the system, replacing the 12mhz crystal on motherboard with faster one,

    you can safely bump it up a bit, without melting the silicon, or if you wish to de-solder the big tms9900 and replace it a tms9900-40 then you can easy bump up your overall speed to 4mhz with a new bigger 16mhz crystal and really have a fast ti99 with 16bit memory!

  10. Posted

    I doubt the mod plays well with the nanoPEB/CF7+, which has its own 32KB RAM.

     

    ...lee

     

    I disabled the 32kb onboard my CF7+ and used the internal 16bit memory in my console with no problems.

     

    Among a few other things, there are timing loops that rely on memory access speed. Those loops will definitely be negatively affected.

     

    ...lee

     

    The most common is poorly written programs that access the Speech Synthesizer directly, when running from 16bit there can be problems if right after speaking a word, you try to access something that is not 16bit, as speech unit is still locked onto bus, but you don't know it.

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    I gotta stop looking at this thread :D I'm waiting for the doc to come out, any timeline as to when, and how? Will it be on Discovery channel or something like that?

     

    Later on this summer, it will include interviews and talks about the rise and fall of Atari and this 'little one-dig' will be part of the whole doc, and sadly it will air exclusively on Xbox One and Xbox 360 in 2014 and will be available globally in all markets where Xbox Live is supported.

     

    I am sure after a year of playing on Xbox Live, it might move to 'other markets', or of course various 'pirates' will make it available in underground channels after it airs on Xbox One later on this summer.

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  12. Posted · Edited by Gary from OPA

    So....

     

    They had to refill by Sunday. They only got to keep 10% of the find.

     

    Anyone wanna make a guess how much these go for on Ebay? I would buy one.

     

    Lloyd

     

    There is no 10% that was written out at last minute, two days before the public event. -- The problem is rules the $2,500 amount, and they infact found the right spot a while ago before the public event, and film crew wanted to increase their amount from 100 cartridges to 250 cartridges and 10 percent of everything else, and they been fighting over this since April 6, but on April 23 it was voted 7 to 0 to increase it from 100 cartridges to 250, but to not include the 10 percent.

     

     

    Mayor Susie Galea said she agreed to giving the company 250 games or 10 percent but not the 10 percent of any other possible items found.

     

    "I am definitely for this project, and would like to see what's down in Atari's tomb, but I don't like the last minute 'we need this, we need this,'" Commissioner Jason Baldwin said. "They are looking to make a good little bit of money off of it and do few things with it. The reason I originally agreed to this company and voted for it because it was just a documentary and everything that came through that landfill is our property and our property to do with it as we see fit."

     

    City attorney, Stephen Thies, said the games are currently valued at $10 a piece and if the city caps the amount of games given to the company at 250 games, then the city will not be in violation of its disposition of municipal property ordinances.

     

    "The total value would be less than $2,500 however on the other items, the 10 percent items, it is my understanding that some of those could have more value and we would be exceeding the $2,500 limitation." Thies said

    Baldwin said he would approve the new terms but did not want to include the 10 percent of other possible items found at the site in the agreement with Fuel.

     

    The commission voted 7-0 to approve the agreement with the changes but did not allow the company to receive 10 percent of any other items that could possibly be unearthed at the site.

     

     

    So they get 250 games or 10 percent of cartridges whichever is the LESSER amount, but no 10 percent of anything else!

     

    Source: http://www.alamogordonews.com/alamogordo-news/ci_25625948/commissioners-adjust-contract-atari-landfill-dig

     

    So you will most likely never see anything on eBay that is for sure. -- Maybe in 40 years more a real 'history' dig can be done, instead of pure PR stunt by Microsoft.

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    Its back to being a urban myth, film crew been kicked off the lot, and pit is being refilled now by the city.

     

    Even tho there is tons more under the first few bucket fulls pulled out yesterday, and they only tap the first truckload dump that was sand filled, never got around to looking under the cement one.

     

    I guess the city didn't care they had 90 percent of buried treasure or the fact there was 5,000 prototypes in there along with tons of other stuff and unseen documents, and rumored even the minidisk controller addon.

     

    In the end, it was just all a big PR stunt really, Microsoft and city could not care less about any actual history or unearthed super duper rare finds.

     

    They got their 15 minutes of fame that was enough, and Microsoft got a worldwind of free PR coverage worth more then anything dug up, with 50,000 websites and newspapers talking about it and the XBOX ONE now.

  15. Posted

    Greed has appeared, last minute changes:

     

    http://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/2014/04/24/commissioners-adjust-contract-for-atari-landfill-dig-a-494169.html#.U1wcRaL4x9M

     

    In the end, the crew does not get the '10 percent' of other items, so things like the 1600xl prototypes, the city will get to sell off on eBay if they so wish.

     

    Or maybe the city will decide it is all worthless trash and just bury it back into the landfill site. -- Would not that be funny! :)

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  19. Posted

    Note, the 9118 VDP, all four of the specialized chips (OSO, POLLO, MOFETTA, and AMIGO) are missing, the RAM is not present, and none of the daughter boards are installed (Pascal, Extended BASIC, and the start menu boot ROM board). I have three or four partially assembled motherboards for the 99/8, and all of them are more complete than this one is.

    and yet the price is already almost $200, with 4 days left.

     

    For those wondering how much is really missing, compare that 99/8 ebay pictures, with pictures of 'working' model here: http://www.ti99.com/ti99stegg.htm

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  20. Posted

     

    Yep just the board, it is missing the case, the keyboard, power supply, and also the main chips like the custom asic, and all the cpu and video memory, and some other operating system chips! -- sad really, but most likely will end up selling for at least a couple of hundred.

  22. Posted · Edited by Gary from OPA

    You also got to remember this 'forum' on AtariAge has not been around for long, looking at the threads, the first post here was made in Nov. 2009.

     

    And our Mr Andrew Fewl if he was using search engines at the time to find other TI99'ers to chat with, he would had been doing it back in early 2009 as he posts in April 2009 he found the Yahoo group, so sadly Atariage would have NOT on his list of TI99 jewels to explore and connect with as it was not even born yet in the eyes of the 'net back then.

     

    And most of good active threads on here didn't get made into middle of 2010, like the Classic99 one or RXB one, which was after sadly the last post on his Forgotten TI Realms blog, so if he was still searching for other TI99'ers he might have given up, since still AtariAge was just starting its first baby steps in moving into vast world of the Internet in 2010.

     

    SORRY POST EDITED: (Because for some reason, the links by parsing on AtariAge here, messed up the rest of my post, making some of it not clearly readable, so I removed the links)

  23. Posted · Edited by Gary from OPA

     

    I beg to differ.

     

    On my google it (Atariage) is fifth one down, after a bunch of old history with bill showcasing the ti99 on tv, print ads.

     

    Also google is different depending on your IP (location), if I use my default google location which is (google.com.do) 'dominican republic', which google auto-detects and changes .com to, atariage is on 3rd page, so I have my home page set to google.ca that way i can get 'normal american' type searches, without google auto-picking my location i should be in.

     

    remember google also 'changes' based on your type of 'browsing history' and 'previous searchs' and 'clicks' and if you signed in or not.

     

    Try going to computer that never searched for 'ti-99/4a' and see what you get..

  24. Posted

    Perhaps it's because when you Google "ti-99/4a" you don't hit this place at all (at least not on the first 10 pages of results). Could those of you with your own websites place a link to AtariAge on the front page?

    Yeah that is problem, because we buried into tiny section of ATARI age, its not a TI99 only forum site.

     

    Sadly all attempts at running a ti99 only forum has failed for some reason in attracting posts and members and good subject matter.

     

    I was thinking of setuping up a 'redirect site' another site with a ton of links, seo, meta keywords, descriptions with a good ti99 domain, but it really has this forum only loaded into it has frame of 'redirect site' to help bring more people in via search and other means.

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