Jump to content
Have You Played Atari Today?
2600|5200|7800|Lynx|Jaguar|Forums|Store  

pjduplooy

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    146

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by pjduplooy

  2. Posted

    Has anyone tried a source based Linux distro like Gento or its forks yet? (I use Calculate Linux which is a fork of Gentoo. There I have a choice of using precompiled apps, using the install scripts to compile the apps, or a mixture of both)

  3. Posted

    1. Do you use Linux?

    2. If you do, what distro?

    3. Do you emulate the TI under Linux?

     

    My answers:

     

    1. Yes

    2. Gentoo (mainly) and Ubuntu.

    3. Yes, the java based v9t9 and dosbox for pc99. Havent used MESS under Linux as yet.

     

     

  4. Posted

    A couple of questions....

     

    1. Do you use your TI for "real" world applications? (do you use it in your work?)

    2. What computers do you use in your work? (Mac or PC?)

    3. Desktop, laptop/notebook or tablet?

     

    My answers:

     

    1. Do not have a TI

    2. Mac and PC

    3. Desktop for serious GIS and Image analysis, MacBook for lighter GIS work, Laptop for Linux experimentation, and tablet for mobility.

     

  8. Posted

    We were three kids that owned TI's. I had Mini Memory, TEII, Munchman, Parsec, the Speech Synth and a lot of books. The one other kid had XB and the Expansion Box and Joysticks. A lot of kids had ZX81's and a couple had Spectrums. A couple had VIC20's and the rich kids hat C64's.

     

    A friend of mine's father worked at one of the first Computer companies in South Africa that had access to mainframes, and minis. The father worked on a 990, and gave me a mini computer that dated from the 70's that had a master unit, which you loaded the OS from a tape. It had a 10MB hard drive (one of those old disc pack things that looked like a washing machine). There was only a database on it. (Was used for customer records in a clothing franchise). There was also a slave terminal that was attached to the Master. This father also gave me training material for the 990, that included some tapes, and four books that covered 990 assembly language, and high level languages like COBOL and BASIC AND PASCAL, as well as how to program the front panel of the 990, as well as to how to type your code on a punch card. These I still have (31 years later).

     

    I liked to use the C64, but did not like programming on the Spectrum due to your inability to "type" in a program, but had to use combinations of keys to get a command in your program.

     

    The only thing I liked about the Speccy was the "waftertape"

     

    Our church had a Spectrum QL, which I also liked.

  12. Posted

    Gee Dano!!!!

     

    What a nice post to read first thing in the morning!! I will pm you later if thats ok!! I have looked on whtech for a power supply manual, but could only find an addendum. Does anyone have technical specs? If I take up Dano's offer, I probably would have to get a step-up transformer as well. Dano, where are you located?

  14. Posted

    Hi guys

     

    Need some help here.

     

    I live in South Africa, and got my beige TI in 82/83. Our systems had a sort of adapter that let you plug in the machine into an tv using coax. You could also plug in a VCR into the same adapter. Was this an RF modulator? I know we could also plug in the TI in a monitor, but cant remember if we had an adapter for it. How was conversion to PAL done? I think I have read here that there was a different chip in the TI.

     

    As we are using 220V I know we used different power adapters. These were TI branded.

     

    Were these likely European models?

     

    What would the revision number most likely be? 2.2?

     

    Any help would be appreciated.

     

    PS, I shouldnt have sold my machine in 1993....DAMN. It is hard to find them here (make that impossible!!!!!!)

  19. Posted

    In 2007 there was a guy who sold this:

     

    The following systems are represented in this auction: Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx, Coleco ColecoVision, Coleco Gemini, Coleco Telstar, Commodore 64/128, GCE Vectrex, Mattel Aquarius, Mattel Intellivision, Mattel Odyssey 2, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, APF TV Fun, Miscellaneous Handheld Games, Miscellaneous PC Games, SC Eight Thousand, Sega Pods, Miscellaneous TV Games, NEC Turbo Duo, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo NES, Nintendo Nintendo 64, Nintendo Super NES, Nintendo Virtual Boy, Nintendo Wii, Sega Dreamcast, Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, Sega Saturn, SNK Neo Geo, SNK Neo Geo Pocket, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Texas Instruments TI 99/4A, VM Labs Nuon.

     

    Sold for $9000

  20. Posted

    The best is this:

     

    "About the shipments, i think that ship all those items is a great task, and right now I don’t know how much it will cost, but I have a parent that send container all over the world frequently, so I can use his experience to do a proper work..."

     

    How old do you yhink he/she is?

     

    I wonder how long this was on ebay before the auction ended.

AtariAge
Forums
Store
General
Follow AtariAge

Copyright ©1998-2021 AtariAge

×
×
  • Create New...