[Where do you PREFER to store your TI GAMES]

Well, there is compact flash, then there is huge flash.

[Introducing BlueWizard - QBoxPro replacement speech analysis TMS5220 tool]

Oooooooo shiny.

[High Score Competition (April: Starfort)]

I think I shall play a little hooky from working this week and hone my skills while I am not being creative and feeling uninspired and lazy. Too bad I cannot submit my scores from the Atari 2600 version -- I soooooo tore that game up... the TI, not so much but it is still one of my favorite games.

[New Genesis Flashback]

Well, what the heck. I figure I will throw in my US$.02 (worth less or worthless, take your pick, in England and Euroland) on the Sega Genesis Flashback, too. (If I make any changes it will be to fix type-os and formatting, not content.)

 

https://atariage.com/forums/blogs/entry/14351-spending-some-time-with-the-sega-genesis-flashback/

[Commodore 128D Vertical orientation? Is it safe?]

I couldn't find a photo, but I believe the MSD drives were made with this orientation too.

 

 

I have two MSD-2s and the drives are indeed mounted vertically. While Commodore assemblies are quite different, they still hold the disks firmly and have spring-loaded heads like all other drives.

[Commodore 128D Vertical orientation? Is it safe?]

Yes.

[Nanopeb Repair?]

I am sacrificing some fried chicken tonight so the gods will favor your NanoPEB recovery.

[Wonder if Pentium-IV systems will ever be popular again?]

I totally dig the "Ataribox" setting on that rig, though I think it might be an optimistically high setting.

[Wonder if Pentium-IV systems will ever be popular again?]

Modern Pentium and Celerons have less cache than Core CPUs, lack turbo clock rates, and have lesser GPUs with lower GPU clock rates, though there is some over-lap in functionality between the Pentium and the Core-i3. You can think of the Pentium as a lower-end i3 and the Celeron as the lower-end Pentium: the Pentium, like the i3, supports four threads per core while the Celeron runs two threads per core.

 

My guess is the only reason Intel drags either along still is to meet price-point expectations. I have not looked at the price differences between Pentiums and Core-i3s as I will not sell anything built with less than an i3 so I cannot be certain. I generally try to stay i5 and above as the wholesale price difference between an i3 and i5 runs between $75 and $150, depending upon generation.

[The FinalGROM 99]

There's a zip on whtech with these already organized and included

ftp://ftp.whtech.com/Cartridges/FinalGROM99/FinalGROM99.zip

 

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Thanks, I will give that a look. I have already started climbing the mountain so I will finish that, as well.

[The FinalGROM 99]

There's a zip on whtech with these already organized and included

ftp://ftp.whtech.com/Cartridges/FinalGROM99/FinalGROM99.zip

 

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Thanks, I will give that a look. I have already started climbing the mountain so I will finish that, as well.

[The Compact Computer 40 (CC40)]

@speccery: Have a look here.

[The FinalGROM 99]

Sunnuva... so the "3" bins will not work. Makes sense. I will either find the non-inverted or just un-invert them myself, then.

[Wonder if Pentium-IV systems will ever be popular again?]

DOSbox fills the gaps fairly well when faster hardware is an issue for old software, too.

 

I can tell you, too, Windows 3.11 fricken FLIES under virtualization

[MAJOR HELP needed: Selling off TI-99/4A equipment]

I am bumping this thread for you since you apparently lost it and started a new, duplicate thread.

[The FinalGROM 99]

I will work on a description of the failures.

 

In the meantime, does anyone else have problems running images of Rasmus' carts? I cannot get a single one to launch successfully and I have now tried three different SD cards re-downloading each time.

[TI PE cards to sell as a whole]

Did you lose your original thread regarding the same?

[Wonder if Pentium-IV systems will ever be popular again?]

A lot of boards from the end of the slot era and the rebirth of sockets have bad capacitors. It took until almost 2012 before I could get a board or power supply I could be confident would not pop a cap.

[Minor change in the parts for a beige "QI" case]

I am sure I am not the first to comment on this, but I found it interesting nonetheless. Though, not interesting enough to do any immediate research on the matter. At least not at this time and most certainly not without a grant.

 

The short, there is a molding difference between the cartridge port trap-door assembly of a beige console with a "QI" main-board and that of a console with a standard main-board.

 

[The FinalGROM 99]

Gotta say, that is a pretty impressive suite of software running on an SD card: TCP/IP stack, SMB (maybe Samba,) Bonjour, a web server and lua scripting, DHCP client, DNS client, proxy client, WPA supplicant, and more.

[The FinalGROM 99]

 

 

 

IEEE802.11 b/g/n

 

Living in a 2.4GHz world,

And I am a 5GHz girl...

[Wonder if Pentium-IV systems will ever be popular again?]

I kept a 1GHz Celeron around for "retro" gaming purposes. There is a 486DX4100 floating around here, too, but the 25MHz bus speed lowers performance a little (though not perceptibly in most scenarios.) Then my K6-3+/450. Handy beasts, these.

[question about TI joysticks]

You can get newly-made CX-40s around for about $20 each. I have not read any reviews on how well they stand up to the originals, though.

[question about TI joysticks]

^

What he said. There are threads on favored joysticks that may enlighten you on your options. As far as I know, only one guy here likes those TI sticks... but I'm not gonna put him on front street over it.

 

 

I like Zero Zap, too... wanna fight about it?

 

[TI-99/4A manuals and documentation project]

I think you don't refurbish the schematics for us so we can make wallpapers form it for our next Man Cave improvement?

 

Although...