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A word of caution if going down the 'buying another TI99/4A' to use for donor parts. I've got 6 4As at the moment, 2 of them work fine and are my main consoles, 2 of them have keyboard issues and 2 have really crappy looking cases. My intention was to swap the working keyboards from the crappy cases into the 2 with keyboard issues......Turns out the keyboard screw mounting holes are in different positions, so just something to bear in mind.

Ahhh this game brings back memories. I remember playing the original coffee table version on a school trip to York back in 1981.

Me thinks Yak the Hairy would dig this version.

Christ, You're taking me back in time, inducing fairly good memories........First school trip that involved staying away from home, scummy little kid from Glasgow-spending a week in York at the Newington Hotel not far from the racecourse. I was 10 years old and absolutely in love with the cocktail table of Lunar Rescue. They even had a disco on for the kids....music was shit-but managed to get them to play Motorhead and Girlschool for little old me. First time I ever had a girl come on to me.......but had no idea what to do

I hate to say it-but probably this.....

We had these.

Would it be possible in a stock machine with the 32K expansion. A fully playable version was made for the BBC Micro model B......which has a mere 32K RAM (though the various graphics modes eat up the RAM like nobody's business). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7U44V9CiHg

Tandy CoCo shows up in "This is Spinal Tap" BBC Micro can be seen in "Electric Dreams" Atari 800XL can be seen in "D.A.R.Y.L" Atari 800 and Atari 5200 can be seen in "Cloak and Dagger" Memotech MTX512 can be seen in "Weird Science" There are a load of them, these are just some of the ones I remember off of the top of my head.

Nowadays it is possible to build up a perfectly usable system with either machine for a reasonable cost, so it's down to personal preference. Had it been 1983/84-I would be going with the 800 XL, Atari hardware was expensive but nowhere near as bad as the TI hardware. I cannot really express a bias towards one machine or the other, my first machine was a 4a and my second was an 800XL........so I had both bases covered

I'm pretty sure the Bin command was used in ZX Spectrum basic for character definition.

Not sure the bit at the top is totally necessary..................

Further to the initial question, I have undertaken a serious amount of research into this matter. I have explored the demographics of users income band, disposable income, political persuasion, lifestyle habits and quite a few other considerations. I have also looked into the history of the various manufacturers, their history both in terms of development and product support. I have trawled through numerous forums, blogs and social media sites on the subject.........and I have come to the conclusion that, TI is the best and everything else is shit (except Atari)..............................

Can't believe no one has said this one............... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJ-A1n951Y

Personal fave................Suncom TAC 2

The Atari............................just because........................

Sorry, just having a bit of fun, I am in fact.......................British.

Well, you will get no help here, you Brits are not to be trusted.......with those damned Spectrums and BBC Micros.

I would say this is good enough for a cartridge release, it is already better than some of the original cartridge based software.

I would personally use the TI logo and for the lettering-I would stick with the same letter set that TI used on the classic black/orange cartridge labels. But-hey, I'm a traditionalist.

It truly is looking like the dogs bollocks, the compiled version is starting to look cartridge worthy.

Does Shift 838 work on Zero Zap?, you know what....................I don't actually care if it does.

"Eric and the Monsters in Ghosts'n'Goblins World"?, perhaps if you have a few K left you could give Eric a kind of comical sidekick-"Ernie" might be a good name............

Merry Christmas to one and all, I was trying to find a nice wintery scene from the old home country, but as the weather forecast is saying that it could be one of the warmest on record-I'll have to use an old archive shot.

It's actually very good for an XB game, good use of sprites and runs nicely. I'm sure Stainless, Apex or Lantern would have been onto it in a flash had you got it out 33 years earlier.

Uncanny, I was quite literally reading an old 1983 copy of C&VG about an hour ago and there was an advert in it for the Apex tapes.