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I have seen 2 versions online. One uses diodes, one does not. Why the diodes? I plan on just doing a pin-to-pin connection without diodes as seen in the black plastic box picture below, unless the forum goers have good reason i should not.

What would be the best way to take, say, a yearly snapshot of the ftp.whtech.com/ collection? I want to do a year-end snapshot of it every year around November / December onto my 3TB usb drive. I know the tool wget, but i not very experienced at using it. Any suggestions to offer?

This program is the Midnight Commander of the T.I. world. Wonderful program.

Best news in the ti scene i've heard since the playground breakthrough! I for one am certainly interested!

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Honestly (and sadly), i have seen hints of the linux world moving this direction also. I triple-boot any pc i own: windows xp/7 (depending on hardware age), ubuntu 11.04 (last ubuntu to use REAL gnome 2, not a lookalikes like gnome-shell and mate [mate is good, but it is NOT gnome2]), and whatever the latest ubuntu release is. If i can get something running under ubuntu 11.04, all the better. If not, i try the latest ubuntu. If all else fails, i go looking for windows-versions of programs. ...Did you know alot of the time, the only reason newer linux software will not work on older versions of linux is they were compiled for a newer version of libc? If you can manage to recompile the software on a older libc, chances are good you get the software to work on your "outdated" linux. Why the heck is mozilla pumping out updates like a machine gun? I am still running firefox 48 and not experiencing any problems. What could possibly need patching that often? If your software honestly has so many bugs that you have to issue patches that often, i would call that some really bad programming. On my outdated ubuntu 11.04 setup, i have full support of my ati video card. If i were to update to the latest linux versions, i would lose that, my card has been deemed legacy by ati, plus the last version of the legacy driver from ati that supports my card does not support the version of x.org used by modern linux distros, AND my wireless card that works out of the box on ubuntu 11.04 does not work by default on newer versions; i have to go hardwired until i manage to get the driver setup and working. In my opinion, nowadays linux and windows both suck. But linux is still the lesser evil. Oh, and linux-distro builders: can we please lose the dang dark-theme as default theme bs? That'd be great. Quit kissing butt and copycatting the latest windows and mac features.

Using the decimal-data and loop format that you used, what is the maximum string length i can use? I see your first string is 161 and the second is 163. Is that about the maximum you can use?

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Old fashion tape. I try out basic/xb games in emulation, and if i really enjoy them, transfer them out to tape for physical enjoyment. Some "disk-based" games can be modified to load from tape. I still use emulation for assembly games though.

Pretty much the reason i am still using the messretro archive from whtech. Download, extract, run the gui, then just a matter of locating the cartridges and disks i need. I am aware that archive is outdated, but it has far better speech support then any other emulator i can think of. Works for me, so i am happy.

3rd all that. Plus, i am still wishing classic99 had at least some sort of cassette support. (I'm odd like that.)

The CALL LOAD(-31878,0) is for the old XB 1.0 sprite issue, or something else? Thanks for that listing!

I would love to, but i am not mac user. If anyone could provide a version compiled for pc, i would be glad to try it.

Think nature is boring? Just add lightsabers.

I am new to audio converting. I have found a video on youtube that contains a sound sample i want to play with. I have a firefox youtube downloader and have pulled it in as a mp4 video... How would you recommend ripping the audio track to the proper qbox pro format? I am running linux, but also have access to windows xp and windows 7.

I would be interested in looking at this game. Does anyone have a download of it, or scan of the program code?

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I don't see how this could be anymore of a problem then QBasic's goto labels. So yes, i actually do want this. (That or someone to port QBasic to TI.)

I wish there was a way to use GOTO to jump to a specific part of a line. What i mean is, instead of starting with the first command on a line, i wish i could jump past the first (or second, or third etc.) '::'. For instance, 100 COMMAND#1::COMMAND#2::COMMAND#3::COMMAND#4 Lets say i wanted to jump line 100, but did not want COMMAND#1 to execute. I would have to write the line as multiple lines, moving COMMAND#1 to a different line. But lets just suppose there was a way to do what i want. I imagine it looking something like this: GOTO ;1 100 The ; and number following it indicate how far into the target line to jump. Omit it to use GOTO / GOSUB as normal, or specify the number of '::' to be skipped in the target line using ;# syntax (;# could also be a variable like "GOTO ;X 100" where X=2). Perhaps a future version of RXB could implement something like this?

If anyone is interested, here is a sort of "behind the scenes" of the creation of this. First off, using the link in the first post, i told it to generate 16384 random bytes, and copied that all to a text file. I keep doing this about 6 or 7 times, and random.org informs me i have used my quota for random data generation for the day, so i decide to call it good enough. Now, i have huge list of random bytes, separated by spaces 16 bytes to a line. I am running linux and using gedit, so the next step was to get rid of the white-space. I used gedit's search-and-replace to first replace all 'space' characters with nothing (leave the "replace with" field empty). Next, i did the same process for the newlines, by replacing the character "\n" with nothing (leaving the "replace with" field empty again). The result was huge string of data with no newlines, no spaces. Now i just needed to chop it up into 16 character hunks... And for that, i had to do some bash-foo (bash is the linux command line environment for those wondering). The attached text file contains probably the longest single linux command ever.(in case you want the command without all my data: echo "HUGE AMOUNT OF DATA HERE" | fold -w16 | paste -sd'\n' - > out.txt) After running that command, out.txt contained exactly what i needed: 16-digit hex codes, 1 per line. Another search and replace, this time replacing "\n" with "\nDATA ". Now i had premade data statements, minus line numbers. I fired up classic 99 in my windows xp virtual machine, issued a NUM 1,1 command and let it take as much as it could from the clipboard. Turns out it ran out of memory around the 458th entry or so, so started over, only copying the first 400. A RES command, a simple loop added, followed by another RES, and we are all done.

How to enjoy this program: [bARF program attached. Remove the .bin ending, its a tifile from classic99] 1. Grab a beer 2. Open classic99 and paste the following program 3. If you want a endless loop, change line 7 to 7 RESTORE, otherwise the program will (eventually) end. 4. Run it 5. Enjoy your beer Character data was generated by (ab)using random.org.

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The upload button expects you to select a ti fiad. I tried to upload a text file with basic code and it did not take it. The download button will take what ever text is in the editor and save it as basic.bin Interestingly, if you have a *.titape file from win99/4a simulator with a basic / xb program saved to it, you can upload that file and it will list it. There also seems to be a limit of 64kb upload file size.

Another zero zap fan here, the pain-sticks ain't the best but they are all i got right now. I just wish C64 joysticks could be easily used, got a whole box of spare C64 sticks.