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https://www.ebay.com/itm/MINER-2049ER-TI-99-4A/143675628677?hash=item2173bc1c85:g:cDIAAOSwb8lfLGsP So this is a link to a fairly common Miner 2049er. I remember back in about '84 being at a Chicago Fair and one of the guys buying on of these and cracking it open, it had a big square chip with a blob of black glue-ish. But what was interesting, was that, for me, it was my first introduction to surface mount technology. Does anyone here know when the first surface mount chip was ever used in a device made for the TI? I think the tour-de-force on the front was the IDE controller.

Adam's CRGP - hat tip on this one, it's be inching towards the finish line for a long time, but never quit moving!

Hi, If your taking request, Miller Graphics put out a chopper lift "clone", with a book called Night Mission. It was to teach programming and give tips, unfortunately, I felt extended basic, just wasn't fast enough to pull it off. I need to at least try it with Myarc Extended Basic, but a compiled version would be nice....

As most know, John Dow wrote the Dow Assembly Primer, as well as a xb flight simulator. In the Assembly Primer - he mentions the Dow Editor/Assembler package. Has anyone used that? Know of it? Also, there was work done by Mr. Dow, mentioned in Micropendium, about an assembly language version of his flight simulator, but I don't think that ever made it out the door. (Glad we have the excellent Spad Flight Simulator and the related columns from Micropendium).

The Advert is kewl, can someone make a dump of the actual screen? I have Aztec Challenge by Cosmi.... No way could the graphics on screen match the graphics on box.

Thank you very much, Little Green Men Associates! 😃

Hey Speccery, Come back, don't be a stranger!

How about a sub poll, I'd like to attend a virtual Chicago Fair as an attendee, not a presenter. Maybe ask if people wanted to buy a t-shirt as a way of showing support?

This is kind of neat:

Does anyone have a preferred vendor of TMS9901's? I'd like to put back a few for a rainy day, but it seems it's gotten increasing easy to purchase bad chips, or chips, with new silk screens - that aren't even the chip you ordered (counterfeit).

In time for Christmas? 😃

Hi, I've seen this board mentioned in a number of post, but in sort of an off handed manner. https://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=30&osCsid=a6388d9b56b704f3508ee011d400fa76 I was wondering how people use it for transferring TI files, and how successful they have been. Ideally, I could hook this up with a 5.25" drive to my PC, and dump files and use them with Classic99/PC99/MAME ? Thanks

>I have finally, again, wrestled WinCUPL into working for me. How did you tackle that job?

Vorticon, If you can let me know the upgrade procedure, that would be most helpful. Thanks, Dan

Kind of like the ebay thread in reverse... I'm looking for three TI related ITEMS - SNUG SPVMC, SNUG ASCSI2 and there was a program released out of Great Britain, called Adventure Writing/Deathship. by Rodger Olsen. If anyone has any of these items, the would like to get rid of, please write.

I wanted to bump this thread. Any news Matthew?

+1 to Ron being a really great guy.

I know, 78/79 tech in the 4a, but it would have been really nice to have had two sound chips for stereo. One of my bucket list items, somewhere between when I retire and before I die, is hooking up my Forti Sound Card to four decent speakers and playing some of the demo music.

>I personally never liked saving backups to floppies as one bad floppy screwed everything up so I copied from one drive to a second drive. Myself, I do not have that requirement so it is not a pressing issue for me as I have a DREM. Wow, that brings back some memories. I did that thing with like 15 floppies, and had it fail. A bit like loading OS/2 from 25 floppies. So in short, you probably have become the DREM, sales person of the month! -=)

is there a schematic?

does the stand alone 32k need power? If it gets power then can it power circuits on the protoboard I plan on adding to it's side?

Let me follow up, i think a good route for my playing would be to purchase some protoboard and plug it in to the side of the 32k board. Arcadeshopper do you know what part, I'd need to get that would allow me to plug in to the 44 pin connector on the side? Thanks!

Right so I take my existing TIPI + 32K, pull the 32k and replace with AMS goodness. Then I have a 32K sidecar unit. Which is Ok.. I was wanting to try some things like Mack McCormicks Slow Down Circuit that used to go in a speech syntezier case, but the 32k unit might be easier, because all the bus pins are more easily exposed....

https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/store/#!/Sidecar-SAMS-with-44pin-header-for-TIPI/p/176285041 So this doesn't mate with a tipi?

Since I'm updating to the AMS TIP BOARD (with built in 32K) - I will have this spare board now, that I wanted to use as a test device. I've always liked having my electronics in a box, unless they are being worked on. d.