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  2. Posted

    UGH! Shipped to my office, the building is closed today and USPS attempted delivery. Might not be able to get it until Monday :_(

     

    But, yeah, it is a good reason to open up the console. While I am in there I will probably fix the CAPS LOCK key, too.

     

    Mine is scheduled to be delivered today (while I'm at work).

    I'll be right with you on the CAPS LOCK fix. I'll also be installing a reset button too, as I guess it'll be needed once in awhile.

     

    The sad part is I'm going to be to busy to get around to installing it for at least a couple of weeks. :_(

  4. Posted

    You read my mind. I have been thinking about this for a while. A customer of mine has a 3D printer and I have been tempted to get him involved...

     

    I have a feeling quite a few of us are thinking the same thing. A TI friend of mine from Olympia and I were talking about 3D printed objects for the computer just the other day. There are so many possibilities that it just boggles the mind. But to have a couple of pre-made standardized HexBus type cases would be a good start. The hardware guys could have a field day.

     

    :idea: Could you imagine a little HexBus type case between the TI and the Nano-PEB that would hold the speech, as well as a miniature floppy controller with a 3.5" drive built-in as DSK4? I doubt it would have to be any wider than the standard HexBus case, especially if the drive was vertical. One would truly have the best of both worlds. As much as I like my Nano-PEB, I find that it would be nice to save a couple of things to floppy now and then.

     

    But for right now I'd settle on a decent case for the Nano-PEB. :thumbsup:

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  5. Posted

    Brand NEW, in the SEALED UNOPENED BOX

    A TI-99/4A Peripheral Expansion Unit!!!

     

    http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2FVintage-NOS-SEALED-UNOPENED-IN-ORIGINAL-BOX-PHP-1200-Expansion-Box-for-TI-99-4a-%2F221285395817%3Fpt%3DUS_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories%26hash%3Ditem3385a32d69

     

    If only I had the room for it!

  7. Posted

    I haven't experimented further to see how much you can get away with that concept (playing digitized audio interrupted at 60hz for gameplay). Of course, it DOES take a lot of memory, but we have lots of memory on cart these days. ;)

     

    Yeah, I kind of thought the bottle neck would be sound interrupting the free-flow execution of a program. Not being an programmer like you guys it was just a guess. About the only program remember I seeing anything even close to this was Parsec, with it's built-in speech. I'm assuming embedding explosion sounds would be done the same way as speech, correct?

  8. Posted

    While the price of 3D printers is coming down, designing the objects has always been one of the main hurdles. Now there is a device that scans objects for replication. The drawback, it looks like it only scans smaller items: http://store.makerbot.com/digitizer.html

     

    So I'm not sure if it will even do a TI cartridge case, let alone replicate a larger HexBus case. But who knows, in a year or two we may be able to do some interesting things.

     

    It would be so cool if someone could scan one of these and make it easily available for users to purchase and put their own projects in.

    $T2eC16hHJIcFHOFzoGJsBSBtkOhL0g~~60_3.JP

     

    I can see the day when someone has 100 or so blank prototyping type circuit boards made up that will fit inside one of these cases, can you imagine the things that could or might be built.

     

    /DREAM MODE OFF

  9. Posted · Edited by Kevan

     

    (the guys comments about the poor use of sound are spot on)

     

    I have a question about sound in TI games. I know the ability and program exist to record samples and convert them into something the TI can use, but would digitized sounds be too big or difficult to utilize effectively? Would it slow things down too much? I can just imagine actual explosions in a remake of some future game. That would be awesome!

     

    My problem is I'm just so blown away with all the knowledge and talent of the guys on here like Tursi, Rasmus and Mathew, that I keep forgetting about the actual hardware limitations. These guys have proven time and time again that nothing is impossible, which is why I always expect to see them give these limitations the figurative bird once again and come out with something else that is new and improved to blow my mind yet again.

     

    Damn, if only these guy were around in the mid 80's to 90's things would have been a whole lot different.

  10. Posted

    The only changes will be bug fixes at this point. If you want to very latest firmware, then I'd say wait. But as of right now I am not aware of any bugs. If I ever get the in-place update written, then it won't matter.

     

    Okay, I noticed on the receipt that it is now at version 1.5. I wondered what might have been different, if anything. Now I know, thanks! :)

  14. Posted

    Tonight is the night for TI's!

    This one listed below in a BEIGE model, it HAS been opened, but looks pretty nice. I have no clue if it's a QI model or not.

    It's +$15.00 for shipping. As of this post it's at $12.00...

     

    http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2FVintage-Texas-Instruments-TI-99-4A-Home-Computer-System-NIB%2F151119736007%3F_trksid%3Dp2047675.m2109%26_trkparms%3Daid%253D555012%2526algo%253DPW.MBE%2526ao%253D1%2526asc%253D17847%2526meid%253D1295784719418057050%2526pid%253D100010%2526prg%253D8208%2526rk%253D2%2526rkt%253D15%2526sd%253D290974828879%2526

  15. Posted

    This might be of interest to the guy with the broken TI, or anyone else for that matter.

    http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2FSealed-Texas-Instruments-ti-99-4a-computer-no-reserve-ti99-%2F290974828879%3Fpt%3DUS_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes%26hash%3Ditem43bf73894f

     

    This appears to be a NEW TI, in the box with the seal intact. NO RESERVE

  18. Posted

    i just founded in these days a company that should print them last two and the Parsec T-Shirt...

    i am finishing the hiRes picture for printing the first prototype...

     

     

    I'm addicted to Vista Print. ANYTHING I upload to them, they will put on a T-Shirt, bill my PayPal account and send me in about a week.

    I recently had this one done...

     

    What sucks was the URL on the bottom of this one became obsolete about a week or so after it arrived.
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  19. Posted

     

    If you have a CF/nanopeb, make sure you use the FWEB modified for the devices.

     

     

    A modified FWEB for the NanoPEB? That woke me up from my living coma! Are we talking a COM1/V2 version? If so, where would I obtain such a copy? I've never really played with FWEB before; it might be interesting to have something to try out while I'm waiting for the next batch of F18A's to be made.

  21. Posted

     

    Now I just need a way to do EA/3 (Atari disk, etc.) without EA.

     

    Good luck with that! :) Heck, it may be possible, I've never seen it, but if it exists, I'd like a copy myself.

     

    I load my E/A 3 games from a batch file menu by pressing one button under 4A DOS, but then again the Super Cart is a modified E/A cartridge.

  23. Posted

    Any chance I can solicit an Extended BASIC loader for Mr. Chin?

     

    The BOOT MENU loader program on the ALTMAN:211 disk works just fine for that. In fact I use it to load Mr. Chin, Titanium, and all my other games from Extended BASIC or the Editor Assembler as it works in both.

  25. Posted

     

    A standard setup could pull from disk; an advanced setup could use the memory.

     

    Many ways to skin the cat...

     

    Very true. Also with many people having switched to virtual disks in emulators like Classic99, using Nano's or CF7's or even other solid state drive replacements for legacy devices, speed is already improved in the 'standard setup' already.

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