Ed in SoDak

Just asking here... you are putting the cassette machine on record? At this point, I think pics or good sketches are needed here.

Compact portable cassette recorders have a loud output. Home music or boom box types may not. The forum members who are suggesting connecting the PC output into the recorders mic, that will boost it enough to feed your TI99/4a. Go ahead and have a tape in it to record. Yo should be able to both save your WAV program to tape and Load it into the TI at the same time. Next time. you'll only need your newly made tape.

Hi Schmitzi, I got this from @Vorticon, in non-working condition as he describes it in his quoted thread above. The CF adapter was found on ebay, I have no clue if it works on the nano or not. I had a regulated and beefy 5-volt supply and tried others as well. @arcadeshopper provided the CF card pre-formatted and ready to go. So it “should have” worked. When it didn’t, most likely there’s a problem with the nano itself, unless I messed up the cf card’s content or my cf adapter choice was a poor one. I don’t have a way to troubleshoot the nano and other than swapping the cf card and reader with known working examples I’m stuck with a shelf queen. -Ed

Bump. i never did get this Nanopeb to work on a known working beige non-QI TI

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Maybe this will help. I upped the graphic a bit. That’s all 28 positions TI allows in BASIC and Extended BASIC. On the “6” I thought you were asking which column a part of the ship was in. Nevermind.. -Emily Litella

Not sure I’m following you, but yeah looks like 6 to me too. In my screenshot above, there’s that row of numbers I inserted into the graphic that shows the column number, just refer to that.

I never could follow this style of coding logic. It was used a lot on the Timex Sinclair TS1000 which was my first “real” computer. I could type it in from a magazine or book program listing, but only grasped a couple of the routies for my own programs. You guys who mentally walk through them, my hat’s off to ya!

I read some in the pdf manuals, then verified it with some test code to display something at row/col 0,0 and at 1,1. Zero is treated as though it’s a one, occupying the same screen location. Column 1 is one space to the left of the mother ship. Yes, it is at TI’s column 1. You can see the row of numbers I inserted into the program. I didn’t think the center part had any aliens so didn’t include 13-16 in my count. When I was trying out the game, obviously I wasn’t living very long so probably never got a chance to see any invaders from those locations. In the screenshot of game play, I used photoshop to insert the numbers seen below the mother ship to show which columns held an invader, except for position 6, which I missed seeing. Oopsla!

I’m late to the party I see. My old Mac can’t handle the last forum ugrade. Leaves me stuck with my iPad, it’s a hassle shuffling files back and forth. Here’s a screenshot showing character count for one line and where I inserted it into your code to display it while running. OOPSIE. I left out column #6. My bad. The attached “99VLIST” version is listable and runs in console BASIC. I can’t make my man move to the right or up. Can’t shoot anyone either. I can only move Left, so no surprise all I do is Die!! LOL 99VLIST

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My vintage G4 Mac laptops are left in the dust. Buttons don’t work, can’t reply or start new topic. Embedded YouTubes are blank space. Probably outdated JavaScript. 😭

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Sorry if I steered anybody wrong. I've sure never noticed the internal mic being live when something's plugged into the Mic jack. The circuit diagram in the TI GE 3158 service docs shows the switch that disconnects the mic. Unfortunately I can't seem to upload a screenshot to this post. I'll have to dig out my recorder and see what's up so I know for certain. -Ed EDIT: Oh you guys! I didn't read past page one where @OLD CS1 exonerated me at the top of page 2.

The built-in mic is disabled when anything is plugged into the record input jack. There's a switch inside the jack to shut off the mic.

Good to know!

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Complete docs and manuals are included in the package. An overview and links plus a list of all the pertinent TI99/4A resources are in the pinned post just above yours. Scroll down a little ways to find XB256 and related suite of programs.

My experience is with saving data to cassette from my darkroom timer or a cassette-based word processor I used a lot when starting out on the TI. The Adventure module should work in a similar manner. When you save your Adventure game-in-progress data to a tape, it's sent out in brief chunks (about 10 seconds) with a long pause between. It's still saving until the computer displays on the screen to hit Stop. I recall there's a constant tone heard during the pause. It's needed to keep the recorder's auto-gain circuits from kicking in. There will be one data plus one pause for each line of saved data. Go fix a sandwich. Or watch some paint dry. Loading your saved game back in will be similar. I'd suggest using a blank tape and writing a short program, literally anything a few lines long. 10 REM TEST OF MY CASSETTE-BASED TRANSPORTER 15 REM WHAT COULD GO WORNG? 20 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 30 PRINT "WHO PUT THAT FLY IN THE TRANSPORTER WITH ME??" 40 PRINT "<screams>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" 50 REM ONE INFINITE LOOP 60 GOTO 40 70 STOP SAVE CS1 when that's finished type NEW and hit ENTER LOAD CS1 then LIST to see if it worked. Now you have a baseline or at least a shorter, faster test tape that's no worries if it gets taped over. Oh and they have those little holes for a reason, to make it easy to adjust the screw slightly till you hear it with the best-sounding high frequencies. Usually a small philips screw, you can see it right beside the record/play head if you put it in Play with no tape inserted. Of course you adjust it while actually playing the tape, lol.

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It occurs to me that we're told to replace electrolytic capacitors as a matter of course in old radios of the same era as the GE recorders. And it's a common thread that the TI and other computers see random chip failures that tend to happen more frequently with certain chips. Yet we give the recorders a pass and don't bother looking at things beyond cabling, level settings and contact cleaning. I have myself, though my TI/GE recorder still works so I've never needed to troubleshoot it. Infrequent use plays a big part in shortening capacitor life. And poor storage conditions. Most old recorders have seen plenty of both.