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6 hours ago, OLD CS1 said:Been there for a long time, my friend. Starting back in the early 2000s I developed a distaste for collectors.
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.
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Where you guys see a preventable failure, I see a feature: an easy way to disable the 32k on the NanoPEB for future expansions!
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47 minutes ago, arcadeshopper said:I recently discussed streaming the other day but then I'd have to behave myself and not yell at electronics..etc..
Not necessarily. Some folks have a following precisely BECAUSE they don't behave themselves.
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2 minutes ago, --- Ω --- said:... but hasn't nearly everything already been busted and changed to FG99 format already? That pretty much dries up the market for most people, with the exception of collectors and those who like to experiment and learn new stuff.
Even without flash carts, it isn't exactly difficult or expensive to get a 4a that boots ROM cartridges with no problem.
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7 hours ago, cbmeeks said:Interesting computer. I get annoyed sometimes when the point of articles (like the Wikipedia article) references how it did X "half a decade" before the Amiga. One thing that isn't mentioned is the price. This computer seems to use some custom ASIC's and up to 72KiB of RAM. What do you think that would have cost in 1980? 🙂
Otherwise, I like the design. I love those "tank looking" computers.
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.
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TI: Using standard parts so you don't have to jump through hoops.
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6 hours ago, cbmeeks said:He's also on the young side to be into retro computers. I always laugh when I hear "retro experts" talk about how a 486 was their first PC. They never had to live through the pain of saving/loading from tape. They never had to type in massive amounts of code on chicklet keyboards from magazines so that you had SOME software to use! (to be fair, I've never done punch cards)
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.
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10 hours ago, sixersfan105 said:Yeah my understanding is he made this version for someone who wanted a one-player only joystick configuration on his TI. Out of curiosity, when would you ever need to use the keyboard and joystick at the same time? Pressing a key here and there to start up a game, sure, but then once the game starts it's all joystick, no? Unless there are some newer homebrews that require keyboard strokes and joystick input at concurrently? If so, that sounds very...tedious!
Defender's smart bomb and hyperspace are on the keyboard even when using a joystick.
Parsec's lift controls as well.
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4 hours ago, Gilbyph said:but I was wondering, is anyone trying to make more Geneve 9640 cards?
As I understand things, making new Geneves isn't possible right now because we lack documentation of the ASIC used on the board.
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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.
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If I recall, it happens if the skunk sprays you.
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Fingers crossed you can dump it!
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9 hours ago, --- Ω --- said:@Schmitzi is a hoarder of P-Boxes if I'm not mistaken. He's probably got more in his house than the rest of Western Europe! 😉
Past a certain number of P-boxes you aren't hoarding anymore, you're building a bomb shelter.
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13 hours ago, Tornadoboy said:Someone ought to make a Game Genie-type gizmo that goes between the cartridge and the port, then people can come up with whatever cheats they want for whatever cartridge, present and future. I don't know how viable that is with the hardware/software compared to an NES but it's an interesting thought.
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.
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30 minutes ago, wierd_w said:I think I will use Aluminum instead of steel for any replications; Easier to bend by hand. That steel is unyielding with anything but a hydraulic press.
Also much lighter. Less of a workout moving an aluminum one around
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10 hours ago, majestyx said:Finally! Our day in the sun!!
Crap, I forgot my sunscreen!
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11 hours ago, mizapf said:Not for us, unfortunately ... Just half an our ago I buried our beagle in the front yard (its ashes, actually), she died December 10 at age 14. The year 2019 also saw my father passing away end of January. So 2020 has high potential to become a better one.
A comedian on TV said: "I want full refund for that da** year 2019. It did not satisfy my expectations in any way." Nothing to add.
You have my sympathies.
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2 hours ago, wierd_w said:What's wrong with commodores? Some of their systems were quite swanky!
TI just got a bad deal from Commodore's market flooding, which forced TI to stop selling to stay alive. That's not the computer's fault, that's the fault of managers from yesteryear.
Commodore is the enemy! Never bury the hatchet!
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2 hours ago, NISMOPC said:Don't forget this did exist and was released...
...but it's still no TI-99/4A.
Well, it could be worse. It's not a ZX Spectrum.
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2 hours ago, jedimatt42 said:?? Are you using a web browser to view the file share? Is that a thing Windows does?
Anyway, /var/log/daemon.log, /var/log/tipi/pio.log, /var/log/tipi/tipi.log would be useful to see.
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.
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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)
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It is a circuit board and some chips!
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9 minutes ago, wierd_w said:It's a serial mouse!
Those are valuable for old DOS PCs!
(Not sure if it speaks MS Mouse, or PC Mouse dialect though. Maybe something else? You said you have old retro PCs sitting around-- see if CTMOUSE sees it.)
Probably not MS mouse. Dated 1987, and three buttons. Was Genius Mouse the competing standard?
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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.
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The TMS320 series is actually related to the TMS9900 series, so it does make a nice pairing from a warm fuzzies point of view.