hloberg
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speaking of Bachsteine, anyone got a copy?
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I went to a electrical supply house and got a clear uv florescent lamp, about 4' long, wired it to one of those shop lights and set it on a bench about 2" above the bottom with blocks to slide the chips under. Worked great! Don't ever LOOK at it while it's on! I later put into a separate room and closed the door until done!
how long does it take to erase?
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If you have any boards left after Chicago post them for sale, I, and i'm sure several other people, could use one.
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Take one TI-99/4a. add a f18a card, a NanoPEB + HDX or PEB with HDX. throw in a XB 2.7 suite cartridge, RXB (when comes out?) or a XB + E/A + (pick your disk manager) on a Navarone cartridge switcher. Over clock with a new crystal and bingo! you now have as much if not more power than the 99/8.
And if you want to get really wild mount the whole thing in a PC case with a wired keyboard.
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Very cool! I need to look on my Cyc disc for that...
It definitely looks like a planned cover that never made it to production... otherwise we'd see one or two about. The artwork is okay, the monster looks a little too "Alien" inspired for my taste.
Adamantyr
My thought too. When I looked at it I thought, 'hey, they ripped off Alien.'
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The 'Cyc' has a B/W picture of the new cover that came from a TI Ad kit and a small, poor quality, color picture that came from a brochure TI put out. My guess is that it was never published.
Please be advised that since it's from the 'Cyc' it is copyrighted material.....etc....etc....
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Bet they both go for big bucks
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use TI99DIR to create a blank disk on you CF card, say disk 10. in BASIC do a CALL MOUNT(1,10) to mount the disk. In OTHER choose DSK1 to save to. that should work.
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Guess I'll never know, I missed the bid.
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Got mine in, Fantastic!
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There is a 130XE on eBay listed to have a 'Best Heavy Upgrade" and has a toggle switch in the upper left corner of the top of the console. Seller has no idea what it is. I looked on the Best site and found nothing like that. Any ideas?
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I would like one if any left.
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Just to let you know that a update on REA 2014 is going jump from a 32 column version like normal Editor Assembler to completely 40 Column version.
very cool. I always thought the 40 column mode was under-utilized.
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After having mine a while I kinda like the retro-geek look of the PCB board attached to the computer.
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gonna need the power supply, or in my case, I did. Mine didn't work without it. I just bought the one he supplies, I think it was only $15.00.
If you go get one yourself be sure it has a very solid +5. Most cell phone type charges aren't very stable.
Also, speech module my cause problems. clean the contacts real good. I had some problems with an old speech module I had because the contacts were worn out. I kept getting memory errors.
that being said, after I addressed these initial problems mine is now very stable.
Also, use TI99DIR to write to it. it's a lot easier than the utility he supplies on his site.
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On other Storage, I have a pair of Quick Disk drives (2.8" on Hex-Bus). I'm still looking at the possibility of connecting an IEEE-488 compatible drive to one of my IEEE-488 cards. I also have 720K 80-track drives (5.25" and 3.5") on a Myarc controller, and 320K drives on a TI DSDD controller card and also on a Hex-Bus Floppy drive.
got a picture of it
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Don't know if there is a good manual for '4A Flyer' but it was easy enough to create a clean one from the notes that came with the disk.
If you have a clean PDF of '4A Flyer' post it here, otherwise, here is one I created.
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What I understand the GPL is laid out into the 32k mem area then the GPL VM is redirected to point to that memory as if it's GPL memory. How it does that?????
Gary, Tursi, anyone want to give us a mini lesson on the subject?
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Try it without the speech.
There should not be much of a different the GROM emulator all it does it make a few changes in pointers to cause the actual console rom to fetch opcodes from ram instead of grom.
But when you have speech, the way it handles the bus, it shutdowns outside access, freezing the 32k ram from being able to send new opcodes, so on parsec you get periods of frozen flow.
Interesting. I never knew that about the speech. so if the emulated GROM has speech then it will have problems access the new opcodes? Is this only when the speech is accessed?
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You got the serial port to allow for old/style serial mouse to work very nice.
And you have mass storage via compact flash 2gb card, just needs a better DSR to allow usage of it like hdd or copy-program-banks into ram via a DSR call, etc.
hard to get a nanoPEB these days. one idea I had was adapting a Atari ST mouse which used the joystick port of the ST. have to get +5 to the thing somehow.
I wondered if the DSR in the CF7 could be redone to see a section of the CF as a HD. would come in handy.
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obscure game manuals
in TI-99/4A Computers
Posted · Edited by hloberg
Actually, a good scan of the front cover might be enough as I was able to get the documentation, that is, if the book isn't too different from what I created.
what I do still need is:
program copy of Comprodine's Backstein, warzone I & II and any others that someone has.
also docs for Titanium, Astro Fighter, Water Works,
Protectorand Topper.Also, if anyone has some other really obscure scanned manual and program I would like that too.
When I'm done I'll post the game manuals I have (that aren't from the CYC) in one big zip.