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Another dsk of games. The name of the the outfit that programmed them is ISS - Instrumental Software Systems. Never really heard of them until I found this disk in the pile. I kinda like Mr Kitty One other one - Shipwreck - Keeps erroring out after a moment of moving your on screen man about a little. I think TI is upset about the way a pattern is set up? I dunno, because programming is not one of my strong suites. Maybe one of the programming giants here can fix. Anyway - Have fun. conTInuing, -Ralph... iss.dsk

Too bad heathkit folded, huh?

Magic jack wasn't tall but he was a man.... Woops, sorry Just thinking of an old who song

Sorry, trying to respond from my phone. Pressing [ will open a dialogue at the bottom of the screen to "put" your menu on the storage media of your choice, pressing ] will "get" the menu from the storage media of your choice. I may have the two mixed up because I always forget which is which. You can edit a saved menu as well.

You gotta have the most recent version of boot but press [ or ]. You'll see where to go from there.

Omega You do know about boots ability to save a menu and load a menu, right? That's what I've used for many a year. I have my main menu on boot up and then select another I've built previously for what I'm wanting to do. I've got menus for art, ea utility's, xb utility's , ea games, xb games, etc. an 80 column boot would indeed be better, but this does work pretty good.

Fantastic! Gives me a reason to crack open the box and replace my triptech battery. Many thanks Gazoo!!!!

Beauty is only "skin" deep.

I'm with you omega. Once I fire up my main system I instantly run palea5. It makes a substantial difference in everything I've loaded to play or work on.

Methinks you be a hardware junkie like me.

Looks like a corcomp sidecar clock hanging on the system as well?

Nope Pinky and the Brain beat you to it.

Don't forget that if you have 32k on board in the console you can run E/A programs from cassette also. I've tried it, it works.

I'm still looking through my pile of disks (BIG pile) and the only screen dump I've found so far was the one put out by Qualitysoft. As far as I can tell (and remember) it dumps the screen to the printer.

Not being a programmer at all I have no idea how hard it is to set up the variables to ram, but if the majority of the ti world is still using a single sssd drive it would probably reach a larger audience for you. I'm betting most users here have expanded systems tho'. Must have more power!!!!

Go big! Double sided, quad density! Just kidding. Can you set up your game to prompt for disk swaps when needed? Kinda like old dark caves and legends games As a user with larger capacity it wasn't too big a deal to make them run all on one disk. If you can give the end user options on how they can load, play and store the game on disk it would be good? conTInuing, Ralph

Gosh, I wasn't aware scsi cards were available. Who might have them?

I could use another scsi card.

As I said before, man do I love the ti community!!!!! I am going to try Fred's software first and hope it will recognize pagepro composer output. If it works, my plan is to send the page(s) it captures and send them to adobe distiller - making the PDF creation hopefully less painful then printing and then scanning. Wish me luck! conTInuing, Ralph

I'm with you there. I have a Panasonic 1156? And a nx1000. Both are great.

Wow! I just love the TI community! I will definitely check out Fred's site for that software - it will be great if it works. Attached is a pdf of one of my favorite issues because of the Escher cover. The originals scanned for making into a pdf were pretty light because I didn't have bux for a new ribbon and it reflects it. VAST News 12 10.pdf

I have a strong desire to reprint the newsletters that I put together for the VAST users group that I was a member of. I have all scanned and put together in pdf form, but the reproduction of a dot matrix printout was less than desired. Does anyone know of a laser printer with centronics input and Epson compatible that will work with a TI? The software for final printout was Pagepro composer (and it took a LONG time for each page to print, but worth it). Anyhow, just looking for a potential better quality print of my work. Or maybe some form of PC sotware that captures the printout of a parallel output to image??? conTInuing, -Ralph...

My main console has : crystal mod (switched - normal/turbo) alpha mod reset button load interrupt button hold switch resistor mod for video capacitor mod for video f18a installed (the 2 above mods have become moot) rave keyboard interface Can provide some pictures but I figured these was pretty standard in the modification department. conTInuing, -Ralph...

Just so you know, I've been looking in the pile, just haven't found it yet. It seems to me one of them saved it off in a 10 sector file? conTInuing, Ralph

Well done Chris I have been thinking about what you said on how I used pagepro and a ton of other programs to put the vast news out every month but I don't think there are many if any that are using these anymore. I did do an article on how I used a ti at my place of work and I did an article starting to explain how I put out a newsletter in the last issue of vast news, and then sadly vast broke up. conTInuing Ralph.