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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, TheBF said:

    VAX had a POLY instruction to evaluate polynomials.  :)

    We always looked for excuses in our school projects to find ways to call that. So many twisted designs seen during our Compilers course...

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  2. Posted

    I've installed the Retrofixes composite kit in my O2, but it's got me scratching my head. When I power on, it goes from bright to dim to off in 5-10 seconds. Adjusting the pot doesn't seem to do anything but change the amount of time it takes to fade. Any thoughts on what I should test?

  3. Posted

    Congrats on the release!

     

    Ran it on my Mac today, Catalina 10.15.5. To get it to launch successfully, I had to turn Gatekeeper off completely for the first run because the binaries aren't signed. Just permitting the first binary wasn't enough, because then it launches Python and fails. So I did this: 

    sudo spctl --master-disable
./ooeygui
sudo spctl --master-enable

    I only had to do this for the first run. I believe it marks the binaries as safe once you run them for the first time. I'll keep an eye out for a simpler way to deal with Gatekeeper.

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  4. Posted

    3 hours ago, dhe said:

    Yep... And it's even more challenging now... Used to be 4 .. 5 year certs where the norm. Know google wants people to up every year.

    I've yet to see a register send a reminder notice, like they do on domains.

    DigiCert sends reminders. Lots of reminders. "Ok, ok, I get it!" level of reminders.

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  9. Posted

    On 6/26/2020 at 4:00 PM, Mehridian Sanders said:

    @wierd_w

     

    Ok Wierd. my wife and I pulled the trigger.. got us a 3D printer arriving tomorrow.

     

    Creality Ender 3 Pro

     

    It looks to have a lot of the features you mentioned. it also looks like it can be attached to a firm surface rather easily. I am willing to bet I am going to be watching videos all night, on "how to" ... "where to" ... "Here's why" ... now pay attention to this .. and of course rereading your thread. 🙂 thanks again for the advice.

    That's the model we have. Check out the channel "Tomb of 3D Printed Horrors" on YouTube for great instructional videos.

     

    I haven't found a need to attach it to a surface. The aluminum extrusions are pretty sturdy, but be sure they're square. Even check the base pieces that come pre-assembled.

     

    If there's one thing that drove me (and most other Ender 3 owners) nuts, it's the quality of the bed surface. The magnetic part is good, but the base metal piece often has tiny dips all over. It's very common to eventually replace the magnetic bed with a glass one (or just a piece of mirror from the hardware store).

  10. Posted

    15 minutes ago, OLD CS1 said:

    Another bonus with these cassette recorders: they come with a microphone, a tape (looks to be a C-60,) and a 5V 1A power supply.  Unlike our standard Program Recorders, it does not have three power sources (AC-IN, DC-IN, or battery,) but rather just the DC-IN and battery.

    I had to go back and check the box. I would have missed the cassette hidden in the packing material. Thanks!

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  11. Posted

    4 hours ago, INVISIBLE said:

    I have an O2 in the closet and have not used it in years!  IIRC I only have three games for it, which might have something to do with the lack of use!

    O2 was my first console. My dad thought the keyboard meant it would eventually be more of a computer. Once he figured out it wasn't, he got me a used TI, which saw a lot more use.

     

    I'm finally near the top of the waiting list for the menu-driven multicart after ordering it after MGC last year. Once it's on the way, I get the O2 down from the attic to refurb.

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  12. Posted

    11 hours ago, thexder said:

    There were a number of times that people had turned it off and back on and switched to joystick mode.

    I tried to reset it back into keyboard mode any time I wandered by. Even with the full Dragon's Lair cab on site, I was still drawn to the TI version.

    11 hours ago, thexder said:

    Somebody clipped the zip ties on three NES consoles and walked off with some games this year.

    I've seen a lot of weird behavior at LAX over the years, but I hadn't heard of any game theft before. I guess other than the VR/AR room, supervision is just periodic walkthroughs. Sigh.

     

     

  15. Posted · Edited by InfiniteTape

    6 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

    Could it be a modem? Can you see if any of the 18-pin ICs are a TMS99532 modem chip? 

    After squinting at the schematic, it sure seems like a sidecar modem. There's a 99532, both pulse and tone dialing, a momentary switch for manual pick, a line marked UART, and a "CD" LED that could be Carrier Detect.

     

    And I figured out the board layout. "A1" is the lower right. Letters bottom to top, numbers right to left. The 99523 is C5 on the schematic. It's the chip 2 spots right from the EPROM under the VHS label.

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  17. Posted

    3 hours ago, InfiniteTape said:

    Wrapping up xdt99 into a packaging tool should be pretty straightforward. On Debian variants like Raspbian, you'd go for the .deb format and use apt to install it. On Mac, you could use Homebrew. In both cases, you'd provide a dependency spec to pull in the version of Python needed if it isn't already present.

    I poked around at this and determined that pip is a probably better way to distribute, since it's just Python script. Here's the setup.py script I used as a proof of concept:

      

    import setuptools
with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
    long_description = fh.read()
setuptools.setup(
     name='xdt99',  
     version='2.0.1',
     scripts=['xas99.py','xbas99.py','xda99.py','xdg99.py','xdm99.py','xga99.py','xhm99.py','xvm99.py'] ,
     author="Ralph Benzinger",
     author_email="[email protected]",
     description="TI 99 Cross-Development Tools",
     long_description=long_description,
   long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     url="https://github.com/endlos99/xdt99",
     packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
     classifiers=[
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7",
         "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2)",
         "Operating System :: OS Independent",
     ],
 )

     

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  18. Posted

    On 1/17/2020 at 6:28 AM, ralphb said:

    But xdt99 and core Python is less than 5 MB combined, so creating a 1 GB image just to have xdt99 seems a little wasteful.  I get your point, however, and I'll think about easing installation.

    Wrapping up xdt99 into a packaging tool should be pretty straightforward. On Debian variants like Raspbian, you'd go for the .deb format and use apt to install it. On Mac, you could use Homebrew. In both cases, you'd provide a dependency spec to pull in the version of Python needed if it isn't already present.

     

    But as Matt mentioned, installing that package onto a TIPI would likely break things in a way that would make it tough to troubleshoot.

  20. Posted

    10 hours ago, Mehridian Sanders said:

    oh damn my work buddy reformatted this to Buster... ok lemme put Raspbian on here.

    No need to reformat anything. "Buster" is just the latest release of Raspbian. The releases are named, not numbered. Even if you had a different distro, we'd just need to maybe tweak the directions, not reformat anything.

     

    Mizapf's response in post #25 should get you going.

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  21. Posted

    3 hours ago, Mehridian Sanders said:

    @mizapf If you're using RPI linux how would you edit your path? This is the current hang up. I made sure I had 2.7 python installed but am getting the same error as above Errno 2
     

    Assuming by "RPI linux" you mean Raspbian and that you haven't changed the defaults, you're likely running the bash shell. Try putting this in /home/pi/.bash_profile:

      

    export PATH="/Users/pi/finalgrom99/xdt99-master:${PATH}"

     

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  25. Posted

    You need to have xdt99 installed and in your path. Add a line like this to the file ~/.bash_profile 

    export PATH=/Users/brian/Documents/endlos99/xdt99:$PATH

    Be sure to load a fresh terminal after you make that change.

     

    Then you'll need to update the make.py file to point to the xdt99 lib files. Near the top of the file, you'll see a line like this: 

    xas = ["xas99.py", "-b", "-R", "-I", "/Users/brian/Documents/endlos99/xdt99/lib/"]

    Change that path to the path to your xdt99/lib folder.

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