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Stuart's TI-99/4A - Internet Web Browser
ElectricLab replied to Omega-TI's topic in TI-99/4A Computers
Indeed! If you have basic HTML knowledge, you can easily use Stuart's documentation and start creating pages straight away. The only caveat I have is that the browser isn't going to be tolerant of mistakes like a modern browser is. Expect strange behavior and occasional crashes. A 99ml code validator is on my roadmap for the aforementioned framework I intend to complete. -
Stuart's TI-99/4A - Internet Web Browser
ElectricLab replied to Omega-TI's topic in TI-99/4A Computers
I'd love to see this happen! Stuart defined a good foundation with his 99ml standard. I was working on an Python-based backed framework for assisting in creating 99ml pages and handling interactive stuff, based on what I learned creating my chess game and the web version of CHATTI. Maybe this winter I can pick this back up, now that there are so many TIPIs out in the world now :) -
Does anyone know what group you should use when connecting? The help says to "enter the group name given to you"
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If anyone tried and was getting reboots, please try again. Greg pointed out that this was happening to him and a re-publish of the code fixed it.
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I finally was able to publish my COMBATTI game, after a complete re-write. This game is a proof-of-concept for a network playable game for the TI, using the TIPI interface for network connectivity. The TI program is an EA5 formatted image and can be loaded from XB by typing: CALL TIPI("PI.HTTP://myti99.com/COMBATTI") A myti99.com account is optional. There is no sound, since I don't know how to do that very well and need to do some more research. The server is a multi-threaded Python 3 application, and is what took me the longest to write and debug. There are four game channels supported, each with two slots. When you connect to the server, a bot will connect to play you within a minute (a cron job fires up a bot and looks for empty slots every minute.) If a human player connects, a bot will be booted to free up a slot. More information is available at myti99.com. Please let me know what you think.
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TI-99/4A - HAM Radio (Hamsoft/Kantronics/MFJ Enterprises)
ElectricLab replied to Schmitzi's topic in TI-99/4A Computers
I'd be interested! What is the model number? -
Escape North Korea is now released! (See Inside)
ElectricLab replied to Omega-TI's topic in TI-99/4A Computers
It's working for me this morning. Maybe I caught AA doing some maintenance or something. -
Escape North Korea is now released! (See Inside)
ElectricLab replied to Omega-TI's topic in TI-99/4A Computers
Videos only seem to play if browsing AA in Chrome. Firefox nor Safari works. -
It's all working now. The code behind the old site uses Python 2 which is end-of-lifed. It still should run, just won't be maintained. I installed Python 3 for another project with the intent of running both until I upgrade all the code running on Python 2. Installing Python 3 also upgraded a library in the Python 2 installation, which caused another library to need updating, which I manually did. Anyway it's all good now.
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TI Intelligent Terminal 700
ElectricLab replied to ElectricLab's topic in Tomy Tutor, CC40, 99/2, 99/8, Cortex, 990 mini
oh yeah? Well we need to get together anyway, so I can get you those Sparc systems. Are you free over the Thanksgiving break? -
Tomy Tutor keyboard group buy interest
ElectricLab replied to dhe's topic in Tomy Tutor, CC40, 99/2, 99/8, Cortex, 990 mini
I used to make my own PCBs back in the 80s, etching with ferric chloride. We used to just use sharpies and/or the transfers from Radio Shack that you'd place over the copper-clad and scribble with a pencil to transfer to the board. Then we'd bathe and agitate it until the unwanted copper sloughed away. In high school, we had a bath with an aquarium pump connected to a piece of hose, snaked across the bottom of the tub to keep things bouncing around and (hopefully) etching evenly. I remember doing it at home in a baking pan that reacted with the etchant and made a huge mess Good times. Nowadays it's easy to use a shop like Oshpark to make boards from your supplied gerbers. -
Seeking others who may have a TI Intelligent Terminal 700 machines, or DS990 machines. I recently acquired a TI 700 and am working on getting it to boot. With help from a friend in Italy, I think I am close, and am awaiting a logic level-shifter so I can flash a Gotek drive to the HxC firmware which supports 8" floppy drives. Anyone else out there with one of these machines? I hope to get her going and use a terminal program on it, and hopefully some form of BASIC.
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This is really cool! I recently got my old XT running and replayed SQ1-SQ3. I hope in this port he retained all of the original Sierra snark and humourous deaths.
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I finally get her cleaned up enough to try to power up, to test the power supply first. I discovered that I have no -5v, so something is amiss with the 5v regulator card. Other voltages are spot-on. I did notice the CRT flash on and off too, so that was a good sign. One of the caps on the 5v board looks different, like it's been replaced before. It's a 4-terminal 14000uF monster and it doesn't look like it burst like some later electrolytics do when they fail. It looks pitted and discolored on the aluminum surface. I will take it out and see what the cap meter says.
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Suggestion to set a monthly WWW.MYTI99.COM group chat time
ElectricLab replied to twoodland's topic in TI-99/4A Computers
I always forget it, and need to add it to my phone's calendar. I need to do the same for the zoom meetings too. When are those?