jedimatt42

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Tursi, great job! I heard your comments about the TI power and keyboard connectors not being available. Do you know what those are called? Formally? Who knows, with the Chinese parts suppliers making so much salvage available, they might turn up again. [email protected]

I have updated the Copper Connection file, and gerbers on the github page. And built this little website http://ti994a.cwfk.net/TiUsbKeys.html with details and links to assembly and installation images, links to parts. Details on the capabilities, etc... I've tested with the cheaper USB Host shield from DuinoFun. It works. And I have shipped one off to an independent party for evaluation and feedback. [email protected]

Almost half of a percent of 10% of 1 million users!

I have updated the images I submitted, as I keep having trouble with the perspective on the 8 pin din connector.

It seems it would have to be coordinated, planned usage. I signed on to it today, but it was hidden under a bunch of other windows, so I never noticed as others strolled through. It needs buddy-pounce Ksarul's use case sounds like a winner. I'll keep it in mind for that.

Thanks, this has been a fun project. I've managed to resist looking at your PS/2 adapter source code. But now that I'm happy with the behavior, I'll have to take a peek. We had different constraints, so I'm curious how different the solutions ended being. I had to let go of some of the keyboard mapping of 'www-' keys, and media keys. I never use them on PCs, and the USB Boot protocol doesn't use them. But the 101-key key layout is fully mapped following the layout you gave me. Thanks. I'll write up full instructions this week. Things that can be slow to get are the Teensy 3.1 or 3.2 board, and particularly slow was the UHS mini breakout board. But I found a vendor from China for that too, which delivered much faster. I'll test with that. And I'll get a BOM up on the github project. I want to revise the board a little. C1 isn't desirable, and C2 really should really be labelled for polarity. It's something like: 1x of this little board. 1x Teensy 3.2 2x 14pin sip socket connector 1x UHS Mini 2x 12pin sip socket connector 3-4 cm of fine wire. ( You'll need to mod the UHS Mini with an exacto knife. ) 1x 10uf capacitor (labelled C2 on the board) 1x 16 pin 2x8 right angle header ( or equivalent IDC socket ) 1x 16 pin 2x8 IDC ribbon cable connector you probably want about 18 inches of ribbon cable. ( I haven't mounted mine inside the console yet ) 1x 5pin header at least 2 leads with header connectors to run to ground and +5v from the TI power supply.

I've been able to hook up the Geneve's 9938 RGB output up to a GBS-8200 vga upscaler it is a fairly cheap upscaler, as those things go. This upscaler, first required a composite-sync cleaning chip, the LM1881. Details in this thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/223677-gbs-8220-to-sgcpu-or-geneve/page-2?do=findComment&comment=3407238 [email protected]

Maybe this is a trivial distinction, but we aren't talking about a different kind of computer, but rather a configuration of the TI-99/4a. Having a PEB attached with an EVPC card creates the same kind of different configuration. Having 32k in the console or in a PEB or as a sidecar creates the same kind of different configuration. Having a mini-memory cartridge plugged in... The thing being, any of those different configurations allow you to run software on your TI-99/4a that did not run on your TI-99/4a without that addition. I really like the enhancement badges, and the software requirement badges as well. I think in MESS it must have been convenient to mix selecting a different computer ( the SNUG TI compatible card console replacement ) and specific configuration (a TI-99/4a with a EVPC card) into the same classification system. I was confused that the QI version of the TI was not just a separate rom selection. But it was indeed a different model number from Texas Instruments. This may be short sighted, but I don't see the internet running out of 'space' characters any time soon... So I don't see anything wrong with labelling software as 'requires F18A video enhancement' or 'requires TI-99/4a w/F18A' I really like the clarity of that.

I'm sure those LandCruisers hand some quirks too. You probably had to treat them just right, with love, to get them to obey. My TIs have always been a lot like that. I've decided, for me, it is still a TI-99/4a as long as the cartridge port causes lockups. [email protected]

On January 1st, I finally ordered some trial boards from OSH Park. Then I finally rewrote the keyboard input software to stop being glitchy and support holding modifiers down by themselves, and fixed all that shift-locky nonsense I was getting with my earlier brute force code. I spent the day after that typing in most of the programs from Buck's "programs" thread, without issue. That code is all up on github now. I got the boards today. So... here are some new images. https://goo.gl/photos/xhLKCTwCPuAeUbP86 The assembled item: Connected to the TI: I've also had success testing with my KVM. The KVM is cheap, so it actually relies on USB hot-plug behavior. Since my board is coded to go into a slow boot loop if it loses the USB device, this worked out fine. Next step is to stuff it into the TI. [email protected]

Those are some creative setups. Thank you for sharing! The fully beige system setup is pretty cool, beige from the keyboard, through the flex-cable boot to the monitor. Never seen anything like that before. [email protected]

That is a cute little adaption... Is that a hexbus modem case that you've put a hxc sd device in? And is that the beige painted PEB that I've heard of sitting underneath it? Did you post those in the system photo's thread? Would love to see the full picture...

This is the schematic for how I have wired everything between the Geneve and the GBS 8200 including how I wired audio. The pinouts I used for the Geneve. The pinouts I used for RGBS over DB9 w/audio is close to consensus on the intertubewebs but I made up the audio part. (I have updated the images to include the solder side perspective of the 8 pin din male connector, so I can get it right) GeneveRGBtoVGA.pdf All of the grounds are wired together I say this cause it doesn't look like what I think of as the standard ground symbol. [email protected]

These rom images that Gazoo put together are the bomb, except, I can never remember which chip I want for which game... My eproms are all labelled things like G1, G2, EDU etc.. and I use a 512k red board with a zif socket. So, this morning I decided I would create a searchable index document... ( searchable, as in ctrl-f in the browser with the page loaded. ) In case this helps anyone else: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uBiaDrJav8g-Yjk7w2wfVE5CKHGKCZidBE3W7tVGBWQ/edit?usp=sharing This is what happens when I want to play Q-bert. I plan to update the publisher details incrementally... [email protected]

There is always this place http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=5276 Who knew they tried to call it Centerville

Just ran across this also on the 512k cartridge bin image GAMES5: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/243766-bin-repository-images-for-burning-cartridges/?p=3347254

I'd be into a get together, large or small. And of course, rain or shine, the northwest way. I'm west of Portland, OR, and I enjoy a good drive on occasion. [email protected]

When I owned a NES in high school, I wired up a 9pin pigtail to one of the controllers, and added extra buttons to a TI joystick so I could use that to avoid thumb-blisters. Full circle

Matthew, I downloaded and ran the v1.7 update from post #1. The update was successful. It told me to power cycle. I did. I see the new boot-badge showing F18-v1.7 in the upper left corner for a little while after power on. However, when I re-load the F18A Firmware Updater, it lists the version information and shows "CRC 1CFB, and FOUND F18A: V1.6, UPDATE FILE: V1.7" Did you miss a version number in the firmware? The instructions for update procedures on your web recommend reloading the updater to validate the version. But after successful update to v1.7, the updater still reads v1.6 out of the board. Clearly it updated as evidenced by the boot-badge showing up. [email protected]

Schmitzi, thanks for sharing those pictures. It was very interesting to see that you have the dark shadows to the left of your text as well. That makes me pretty happy with the GBS8200 output as it is. After what I've done so far, I believe the sync-strike from arcadeforge should be sufficient for getting any 15khz RGB display to work with the Geneve's RGB output. Or as I have done, build my own with the same LM1881 chip that the sync-strike uses. If you have displays that take SCART, you can also get/make SCART cables that have the LM1881 built into them. http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/composite-sync-stripper-lm1881/

So, on the Geneve that must have been connected with simply the composite video? I tried the composite input on my SEIKI TV with the Geneve (same TV my images with the scan-doubler are from), and it was unusable in 80 column mode. The big screen just scales up the blur The SLG3000 is on order, hopefully it will not take forever. Meanwhile, I've turned scan lines on on my F18A TI console, to get used to them again. We'll see how the output compares.

This wasn't Christmas morning, and the console isn't purely un-expanded, it has an F18A in it. But had to do it anyway before 2015 ran out... https://goo.gl/photos/4wEpmk2NZvXjJ2FU9 [email protected]

The inside of my PEB lids have E-M-P etched into them... I like to joke that these things will be used to reconstruct our technological society after nuclear winter. Of course these plates are really there to keep the radio leakage in, but it makes a strong package and a good story. (And apparently, a size appropriate sitting bench ) [email protected]

That is a very interesting feature. That must be the mechanism by which Fred Kaal's DSR for the IDE board works, as he simply says: "This also works on a Geneve (in TI-mode off course)" Is there a site with a list of the hardware that the Geneve supports? and or is known to work? The manuals I've seen cite the some level of function with the TI FDC, CORCOMP FDC, MYARC FDC, the same 3 brands of RS232 card, and the Myarc HFDC. What other devices are known to work? (cause now you've got me curious )