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What do you hardware guru's think of this unit? https://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-Logic-DSLogic-Basic-Analyzer-16Ch-100MHz-4Ch-400MHz-Xilinx-Spartan-6-FPGA/133098250816?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160811114145%26meid%3D8036a013672c44dea48c452efe75c803%26pid%3D100667%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D5%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D392790613758%26itm%3D133098250816%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2334524%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2334524.c100667.m2042 For me, the price is right, at <$100

>Is this what a TI archaeological dig feels like? I was thinking some kind of adventure game, where you where collecting parts of ancient manuscripts, that once assembled, translated, ordered and figured out, would let you finally perform the great spell of summoning!

Ksarul, Once you get to the point, having dis-assembled the entire p-box, cut away the mummy wrapping and found the fuse (blown or not 😃 ) What would you suggest? Going to an autoparts store and soldering on an in-line fuse holder and re-wrapping the transformer in either metallic tape or electric tape, or no tape at all?

If ONLY Farmer Potato had a new Geneve ready we could all help! 😃

If you watch Futurama and are as looking forward to this hardware as I am, you'll get this joke....

The board that add a real time clock battery backup to the HFDC was called Watchamacallit.

Man, just how kewl would it be to say, you know, I'd like a hexbus disk controller. And just building a working unit with protoboard and wirewrap, o' and make some improvements along the way. Now, that laddies, takes some talent! 😃 Congratulations Jim, that is one of the cleanest wirewrap boards that I've ever seen.

Hi, Speccery, when we last meet here, he started another branch regarding the DSRLNK. I was wondering if you have had time to work on things like Pascal Emulator, maybe console grom over-ride or just getting what you have ready for people to try out? Thank, Dan

Questions: 1) The board your soldering on, looks like it plugs in to an arduino? 2) What about the cable, that plugs bridges the deek-robot to the cc40's hexbus port?

This is a really good go to book about the 99000 - The 99000 Microprocessor: Architecture, Software, and Interface Techniques Paperback – February 1, 1984 by Avtar Singh (Author), Walter Triebel (Author) All the talk about finding tms99110 bits sprinkled in to 99105's - reminds me of many times during this error, you'd get an sx intel chip that was actually a dx, who failed the co-processor test and the factory, so electronically it was disabled and sold (fairly) as an SX chip. And then others where you got say a 12MHZ products, which started out like as a 16MHZ products that failed the tests, and was sold as a slower product for which it passed the tests.

I always thought the DSR would be interesting, because somewhere in the 9900 code, must be the z80 code....

Here is a first go at a comprehensive TP99 manual. Wolfgang translated the manual from German to English. I've added some stuff and did a bit of editing. The main problem, I need to overcome is getting the index right, and making it clickable. One whole in manual, is apparently, with the discover of TP99 V3, we have the sound and graphics library, but not official documentation. Also included is Wolfgang's step by step getting started. It seems perfect to me, for getting your first TP99 program compiled and running. The plea... Please send any corrections or additions to me! Thanks, Dano TurboPasc99_manual_english.pdf TurboPasc99_first steps.docx

So it sounds like the hardware is 100%?

June!

Micropendium has a good article by Mike Wright, where he goes step by step explaining the elaborate security measures, that had to be taken to un-protect this file, as I wanted to run it in pc99. The best take away from the article, is with the right incantation, extended basic is pretty much able to read a sector.

I believe the pcode card itself is just groms - not sure where / how they map, but there are people here with bigger brains. So all you would need to do is space to hold the grom code. I believe mess emulates the pcode, so I'm sure Michael knows the ins and outs. http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/peb/pcode_card.html

Back when Millers Graphics release the GramKracker, there where many nice mods made to grom0 and grom1 to customize things. And yes, your understand (option 2) is perfect, it was more by accidental discover, that it was found grom override worked as well as it did (100%) - because the ttl line drivers essentially just over rode the p-mos signals of the grom chips. I didn't even think about the micro controller, being 3.3V natively. The other benefit of the gram kracker, being an 8K gram, instead of a 6k grom and that area now becoming larger, and r/w instead of ro. Since you have total software control, do you think the strangecart could emulate the psystem?

Are you planning on supporting console grom over ride?

I figured out how to build a whole screen, and display it at once. What I can't figure out how to do, is go to a row, and col and do a an equivalent of accept at.

Wasn't there a basic program that would tell you what chip failed?

Thanks, that's a mighty nifty feature! One of the reasons, I was looking at FDOS, was it looks like the complete source is there, though I have not recompiled it yet. So, the theory being, if there something I don't like, I can fix it myself! 😃

Took a bit, but I tracked down, what was going on. I was implementing the instructions as given, but still failing. The clue to what was going on was in Flotmann1's video, when it hit DSK1. I re-watched, Tursi's Video, Tursi loaded fdos from DSK1. I pulled down an additional copy of Classic99, and put it, in it's own directory, and pointed it to DSK1. At that point ever worked as expected. I guess the unknown, was even though FDOS is loaded in to the supercart area, the program disk needs to be in dsk1?

So, I issue you a programming challenge! 😃 I did manage to display the matrix, basically by building a whole screen at a time. Let's say, I wanted to build a program to allow cross word puzzles to be filled in... How could one do that with out a set or get pos? C GRAPHICS EXAMPLE - 04/28/2020 - DHE PROGRAM G2_S C GRAPHICS EXAMPLE 2 SOURCE C2345678 INTEGER MY_MAT(3,3) DATA MY_MAT /1,2,3, ! 4,5,6, ! 7,8,9/ CALL SETVID CALL CHAR ( 111, '1824429999422418'X ) C SPRITE BUILT WITH FSF.IO SPRITEPAINTER PRINT , 'The gAme of Life' C With out a work setpol must build whole screen at once WRITE ( 6, 900 ) MY_MAT(1,1), MY_MAT(2,1), MY_MAT(3,1) WRITE ( 6, 910 ) MY_MAT(1,2), MY_MAT(2,2), MY_MAT(3,2) WRITE ( 6, 920 ) MY_MAT(1,3), MY_MAT(2,3), MY_MAT(3,3) 900 FORMAT ( '+', M10.10, 3I1 ) 910 FORMAT ( '+', M11.10, 3I1 ) 920 FORMAT ( '+', M12.10, 3I1 ) C PRINT , MY_MAT(J,I) CALL DELAY ( 5 ) 20 CONTINUE 10 CONTINUE CALL DELAY ( 30 ) C WAITS 3 SECONDS, COMPARE WITH CALL WAIT CALL DELAY ( 40 ) STOP END

With the 99/4a version, you get 'game of life' and lock up. Vorticon played with it on a real TI and received that same results, so we know it's a bug in the gpl version, that apparently is not seen in the MDOS version.

C SIMPLE TEST PROGRAM C234567 PROGRAM STP INTEGER MY_MAT(3,3) DATA MY_MAT /1,2,3, ! 4,5,6, ! 7,8,9/ CALL SET40 CALL SCREEN ( 12, 2 ) CALL CHAR ( 111, '1824429999422418'X ) C SPRITE BUILT WITH FSF.IO SPRITEPAINTER PRINT , 'The gAme of Life' C Now lets unroll the array DO 10 I = 1, 3 CALL SETPOS ( 4+I, 1) DO 20 J = 1, 3 PRINT , MY_MAT(J,I) 20 CONTINUE 10 CONTINUE CALL DELAY ( 30 ) C WAITS 3 SECONDS, COMPARE WITH CALL WAIT CALL DELAY ( 40 ) STOP END