JB

The TMS320 series is actually related to the TMS9900 series, so it does make a nice pairing from a warm fuzzies point of view.

At least we aren't in the Nintendo community, where trust-fund kids are putting their crap in plexiglass coffins and driving prices up to completely insane levels. Just mildly insane, and not entombed.

Where you guys see a preventable failure, I see a feature: an easy way to disable the 32k on the NanoPEB for future expansions!

Not necessarily. Some folks have a following precisely BECAUSE they don't behave themselves.

Even without flash carts, it isn't exactly difficult or expensive to get a 4a that boots ROM cartridges with no problem.

I've noticed that before. Some articles are written by people who desperately need their topic of interest to be recognized by the world at large, others are by people who are content to document. I remember noticing that in a couple articles about pets. The "dog" article is large, but purely concerned with the subject at hand. The "cat" article is similarly large, but spends a lot of words comparing cats to dogs. (Always favorably. I suspect bias.) There's also articles where someone has clearly driven through and added their personal interest to a related, but distinct, article.

TI: Using standard parts so you don't have to jump through hoops.

It's me! Almost. I was born in '81. The 4a was an overglorified game cartridge player to me for a long time. It was dad's hobby, and we had a loaded P box because of it. (Disk drive almost certainly made Tunnels of Doom more pleasant.) We built a 486 around 1995. With a WHOLE GIGABYTE of hard disk space, which blew my mind. It was my second computer, and I had to know a lot more about how it worked to play games.

Defender's smart bomb and hyperspace are on the keyboard even when using a joystick. Parsec's lift controls as well.

As I understand things, making new Geneves isn't possible right now because we lack documentation of the ASIC used on the board.

About the only thing the TI and INTV have in common is they both used a 16-bit processor(though by no means related ones) and have an optional speech synthesizer. I assume, without checking, that the 16-bit thing is why they both got Microsurgeon and not a single 6502 or Z80 machine did.

If I recall, it happens if the skunk sprays you.

Fingers crossed you can dump it!

Past a certain number of P-boxes you aren't hoarding anymore, you're building a bomb shelter.

Don't Gramkracker et al offer basically this? Once the (G)ROM image is in a writable media, you can patch it at will. And that's all Game Genie codes are, short patches.

Also much lighter. Less of a workout moving an aluminum one around

Crap, I forgot my sunscreen!

You have my sympathies.

Commodore is the enemy! Never bury the hatchet!

Well, it could be worse. It's not a ZX Spectrum.

I'd be surprised if it can't be done in other systems too, given how long browsing networks has been a part of web browsers. I remember doing this with Netscape. Heck, the feature's still used on connection to the outside world sometimes.

I think everyone's missed an important part of the equation. bluejay has THREE VCS-compatible devices. It isn't trading the 2600 for the 99/4a, it is trading A 2600 for the 99/4a. There's very little reason to say no, because there's very little to lose(except possibly bluejay, to the dark side if he trades for a Commodore instead)

It is a circuit board and some chips!

Probably not MS mouse. Dated 1987, and three buttons. Was Genius Mouse the competing standard?

Here's my idea. It is a bit rough, but it illustrates the idea. Official 99 logo married to the current official Arm logo. I happen to like the wordplay, too.