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Have you tried rebooting? 😃 LOL Also 6.5 is kind of old 7.4 can be found here. And I think there were some video xop's fixed. https://www.9640news.com/?p=490

@Tursi - I didn't capture the information, but when I ran Classic99 for the first time, Wine said - O' I need this and that, can I install it. So it was able to grab the things it needed. I liked wine/cross over in that it doesn't require a full Windows install and license, over parallels which is a more complete emulation, but does require a full install and windows XX license.

I pulled a mac mini (2011) from a pile and installed High Sierra. It is still a pleasant drive. Then I installed Wine and the latest version of Classic99 (32-bit) and it ran for me.

@retrodroid was there any special tricks to getting Classic9 work on wine?

You are probably right, but I might buy a handful to put back and consider them a wear item.

Did you try replacing it @FarmerPotato ?

Looking at the display - vram is my first thought. If you had socket there it would be easy enough to test, but no sockets. You might want to look at this thread: Part of the change was swapping the 4116 - which req 12v to 4164 which only req 5v and run cooler. You also might want to look at this thread: If you don't want to take up the challenge maybe ruger custom can do the job for you. Once you cut over to socketed new ram at 5v life will get much easier going forward. Good luck moving forward~!

I've been doing some research on soldering, and these appear to bet 'best practice' recommendations.... (Open for feedback) 600°- 650°F (316°- 343°C) 15-20W - Bad, they take to long to heat up. 30-40W - Good, but you need to be quick. Brass solder tip cleaners are better on the tip, then wet sponge. Also, size matters, watch the size of your solder. .5mm seems good for everything. .8mm maybe? Try to get solder with 3% silver. Per-Heat soldering table?

Good you tube on floppy disks.... I used to know a chunk of this stuff, but it's all left my head, I need to pay attention and watch the whole thing!

Any chance these could be mapped to the arrow keys via Classic99? Even on PC's running Linux, I never use those...

It's my understanding, VI was a modal editor in order to make it easier to port to multiple terminals, and to make it responsive on slow terminal connection (?). Would it be possible to re-factor the code and create an abstraction layer, so i/o could be done either via a keyboard/vdp or a terminal? Also, per your question what would be nice to have, I didn't see search and replace mentioned in the docs. I know things like regex is hard, but maybe a simple /string/replacement string/ ?

And congratulations on taking up an instrument. I would like to do so also, if I make it to retirement age. Is testing against code ran on Classic99 acceptable?

Are the Pascal books you refer to on his website, or did you mean he physically possess a copy?

@TheBF A couple of questions. Was vi9980 tested with classic99 in 80-column mode? Should this be the correct syntax to open and create a file? (using DSK image on Classic99) If I start a new session and hit I for insert mode, I type Line 1, hit enter and end up with this displayed.

To answer me own question, about playing "The Lurking Horror". I went to www.ftp.whtech.com Grabbed this file: ./emulators/pc99/pc99 dsk collection/Collections/Mickey/AdventureGames/EditorAssemblers/InfocomInc/LurkingHorror/MC56.ZIP It contains a .dsk in pc99 format. Just drop that into a directory and point Classic99 to it as a disk image. Set cartridge to EA5 - the program file is util1, so just hit enter at the EA5 prompt and it will autoload. Looks like the original came with two manuals - a technical manual explain how to run an infocom game, available at many sites as a PDF, one attached here and a 'feels' manual, couldn't find a pdf of that, but found it on this website: https://gallery.guetech.org/lurking/lurking.html lurkinghorror-manual.pdf

Anyone have a virgin copy of "The Lurking Horror" that I can play on the Geneve, TI or Classic99? Is the box and doc scanned somewhere? As the original box and doc seem to be going for about $150!

I mean, like yea, I own one too! 😃 Keeping adding to the list folks, maybe we can get BCT's creator to add chips of interest here.

Sooo many GPIB cards out there in the wild! (LOL) 🤪

TMS9900 (if it would fit), TMS9902, TMS9904

https://store.backbit.io/product/chip-tester/ Any of you folks own one? Do you think the creator would be interested in adding more chip of interest to 99/4a aficionados?

Arstech story pointing to github: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/infocoms-ingenious-code-porting-tools-for-zork-and-other-games-have-been-found/

Replacing the 541, got your skills menu back?

I think another handy feature is the ability to say - your this type of hard drive. And that aren't as prone to failure as 25 year old zip drives.

@TheBF Just pinging on this project, to see if you have played with it anymore?

Some (all?) of the WHT SCSI cards suffer from some problem (wasn't privy to what those are/were). Michael Becker made the daughterboard to fix all timing problems. They were related to newer (for the time chips) seeing a transitional phase on the base and acting upon them. @Swim would know best.