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  3. Posted · Edited by Toucan

    I have a NON-FUNCTIONAL Colecovision unit with controllers (of which seem to be semi-functional) that I am looking to sell for $2 plus shipping. I figure that $2 would cover any gas and PayPal fees so that I at least walk away even when leaving the post office :) Anyway, you can read about it here:

     

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/332432292053?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

     

    To calculate shipping, just type your zip code into the eBay auction calculator and it should give you a cost.

     

    I'll end the auction once I hear from someone here on AtariAge. It looks like there might be rust on the circuit board chips, but the controllers looked fine from what I could tell when I opened all the items up. Hopefully someone can use this for parts or even manage to get it working again.

  5. Posted · Edited by Toucan

    I just found out how to export Outlook e-mails to a csv file which means I now have a project.

     

    I have had the 1997-1999 River Listserver e-mails in Outlook and have been meaning to make a public database where people could search the old Listserver messages. For those that don't remember, The River was where Tom Wills hosted the first TI-99 mailing list which ran from 1996-1999 before going to eGroups and then Yahoo! as the OLUG. The messages from the OLUG are searchable to this day, but no archive of The River listserver exists (there was one by Mr. Moon back in the early 2000s or so, but that archive is long gone). Anyway, I just uploaded these e-mails to my website (link will be coming eventually when I am further along) into a MySQL database. All I have to do now is create a search interface as well as a display interface so the messages can be read on an HTML webpage. This is a wealth of info and should be fun to get this out there. Now my only questions are the following:

    • Does anyone have messages from The River listserver before 8/7/97? That's what I have back to. I know they must be out there since Mr. Moon's defunct site went back to 1996 and someone provided those to him for that project. Just hope they have not been deleted/lost in the time since.
    • I probably will try to add other TI message forums as well in the future once I get this done. I'd like to put the TI-ECHO up and any others (didn't Delphi have a TI board?) if anyone has those. If anyone has any other source of on-line TI messaging let me know as I'd love to eventually grow this out as a one-stop-shop for historical TI info.
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  8. Posted

    Forgive me for resurrecting an old topic, but I know that lots of the TI cartridges were released in both black and beige cases (and with differing labels). Yet I've never seen a TI Invaders cartridge in anything but a black case. Was it ever released in beige? Older games were released in both colors, so I'd think this one would have been also. Does anyone know? Thanks!

     

    Ask and ye shall receive ;-)

     

    http://videogamehouse.net/theattackcarts.html

  12. Posted · Edited by Toucan

    Priced reduced further!

     

    All games are CIB and have been tested/working. Pics included. Note that there are pics of carts that are not longer available. Look at the list for the updated items available, use pics to see condition. Prices do not include shipping:

     

    Special Offer: If you buy the entire lot, you can have it for $30+Shipping.

     

    $3 Each:

    • Draw Poker
    • Raid on Fort Knox
    • Clowns
    • Cosmic Cruncher
    • The Sky is Falling
    • Omega Race
    • GORF
    • VIC Avenger
    • Pirate Cove
    • Mission Impossible
    • The Count
    • Adventureland
    • Jupiter Lander
    • Mole Attack
    • Sea Wolf
    • Radar Rat Race

    $7 Each:

    • Facemaker
    • Pole Position
    • Spiders of Mars

    FREE: (if you purchase at least one of the above carts. These are non-working carts, but are CIB)

    • Voodoo Castle

     

    vic1

    vic2

    vic3

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  13. Posted

    Wow, the Bravo Sierra spam is still being posted there on a regular basis to this day. He will probably post that for all eternity.

     

    Wow, I just checked and it's been going on since 2003 (Bravo Sierra Computers). All the posts seem to be annoying right from the beginning. Does he actually sell Atari items, or is it someone just fooling around trying to be annoying. Not sure he would have much of an audience nowadays though!

  15. Posted · Edited by Toucan

    I am interested in buying some non-functional Colecovision units. It might be fun to try and see if I could get any to come back to life. Not sure what the going rate is on them, but let me know if you have any and what the issue is. Also, note cosmetic condition. Also, if you have any working power supplies, joysticks, or video hookups I probably would be interested in those as well since if I can get one back to life they would come in handy :) Thanks!

  16. Posted · Edited by Toucan

    I currently have a number of items on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/sch/auction99er/m.html?_trksid=p3692) that I would like to offer to the people here at AtariAge for 10% off if you buy them from me directly (since I won't have to pay eBay fees). Just contact me at [email protected] with anything you might be interested in, don't click Buy It Now on eBay. That could be a good savings for the more expensive items, like the Tomarc/Motocross double-ender would be $20 off for example.

  17. Posted · Edited by Toucan

    Oh yeah, this is bringing back some memories. Anyone remember this site from back in the 90s:

     

    http://www.oocities.org/[email protected]/index.html

     

    Secret Agent always looked fun.

     

    Robopods is on there as is the all silver TI-99/4A, which was making the rounds back then. I never found out if it was a custom job or if there really were all silver TI-99/4As. Someone mentioned it might have been released in Europe since they never got the beige consoles, so the TI factory in Europe painted them all white/silver to match the newer US ones.

  18. Posted · Edited by Toucan

    As for E.T. I have 3 sightings on that as well. It seems to be a Canadian thing. One comes from Tyler Van Tighem when he was the librarian for one of the UG in Canada. He was dumping carts to disk for the group and didn't realize E.T. was an unknown title until I mentioned it to him in an e-mail. Another comes from a Canadian user that said he has it in his collection and will send me pics of it. The other comes from a truck driver in NH who was a TI user and would stop at various UG meets on his travels. He was a friend of Mike Wright and swears he saw the physical cart. Note that all of these are in/near Canada. Did some make it out in Canada? Who knows, but they all seem to be up there.

  20. Posted

    Neat video.

     

    Definitely this! I go to this page all the time.

     

    After hearing this it makes me want to work on the update to the site I've been planning. Glad to know people are still using it. The next iteration It would include all the tidbits I've gathered through the years and have all of the carts (released/unreleased) and info on vaporware. I plan on unveiling a vaporware rating (V1: it's been claimed to have been seen and we have the code, V2: It's never been seen, but we have the code, V3: Been seen, but we don't have the code, V4: Never seen, no code). It would help identify which titles are truly unknown. I would then include documentation on sightings that have been reported and even when the code was first made available if known. Here's an example on some games with their vaporware rating:

     

    V1: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

    V2: Wing War

    V3: Joust

    V4: Porky's

     

    This kind of helps give an idea on what might be out there but just hard to come by.

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  23. Posted · Edited by Toucan

    It looks like the cheat was put out on the disk release of TI Invaders. Maybe John Phillips was involved in putting it on disk for release back then. Here's a link to a page that says it's on the disk version:

     

    http://shawweb.myzen.co.uk/stephen/timram35.htm

     

    --------------------

    From Issue 35

    GAMES PLAYERS SPECIAL... with thanks to Robert Brown of the Sydney (Australia) group.

    Many games modules have a "cheat" mode, reported before but not for a while, and not such an extensive list...

    In general, to enter cheat mode, when you have the title screen displayed, you must hold down SHIFT and press 8 then 3 then 8. There is often a time-out which means you have to do this fairly promptly from the time the title screen appears.
    Available with: ALPINER, MUNCHMAN, MUNCHMOBILE, MOONMINE
    After pressing the required keys you are able to enter the game at any level you require.

    TI released TI Invaders OFFICIALLY on disk, and only the disk version has the cheat mode, allowing you not only to select level but ALSO speed.

    STAR TREK will give you unlimited lives after you press the required keys from the title screen.

    CHISHOLM TRAIL, instead of starting from the title screen, wait until it asks you for LEVEL 1-9 then quickly make the required key presses.

    HOPPER you only need type SHIFT 8

    TI RUNNER was only released on disk. when your man is flashing before the game starts, you can press FCTN 5 to skip to next level; or press SHIFT 3 followed by a two digit number to go to any screen ( 6 is typed 06 ).

     

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    Here's a pic of the manual http://www.ti99ers.org/timeline/images/phd5058a.jpg

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  24. Posted

    I have a Tomy question. I recently learned that one of the original Demo carts showed a "TI-Adapter" as coming for the Tutor. Cameron seems to think this was some type of expansion box that could use TI PEB cards, which may be the case, however it seemed that he surmised that since the Tutor's expansion box was not mentioned in that cart, but was in later ads (and the TI-Adapter in turn was not). However, with a name like "TI-Adapter" would it not make more sense that it was a TI-99 cartridge adapter so that the Tutor could access the library of TI carts? It was common in those days to do something like that, like the Atari 2600 adapter to play 2600 carts on a Colecovision. It just seems to me that considering the name "TI-Adapter" that it was unrelated to the Tutor expansion box, but was dropped and the expansion box was something else entirely.

     

    Also, I would think that Tomy could make more money by making users have to buy an expansion box using their cards, and not one that uses ones made by TI. I could only see a benefit in a cartridge adapter since it would expand the software library and attract buyers, whereas a TI compatible expansion box would only take away sales that otherwise could have went straight into Tomy's pocket when users had to buy Tomy branded cards.

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