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    A podcast I listen to was talking about how someone gave him a lot of TI-99/4a equipment, and it reminded me of how much I liked the TI, so I started looking around for people who still used them and found this place by way of a google search yadda yadda yadda, I now have 2 TI's, one for preservation, one for noodling around with. This is all in the last year, I go full bore into my obsessions .

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    I figure with stuff like old computer equipment, I don't really NEED it, so if I lose so be it. Sometimes I forget I bid and end up winning with a ridiculously low bid (ie. a pristine Amiga 1000 for $350 with monitor), but I had been chasing one of those leather TI dust covers for months and kept having it sniped from me. I did finally get one. I say try to change your mentality about Ebay. it's not worth the stress.

  10. Posted · Edited by LASooner

    When I first got my TI for Christmas we only had 1 TV in the house, so I would sit on the floor while everyone else watched TV and I would blind type in either code I had written or a program in a magazine and carefully try to focus on every key press, only when shows would go to commercial, could I then throw the switch on the TV modulator and check what code I had typed in. I would say at the time it sucked, but I also look back on it fondly because it showed how excited I was to have a computer and try to understand it. I think it started my insomnia too because I would stay up late after everyone else went to bed. Consequently, my mom got me a cheap 12" B/W TV for my birthday the next year. I guess she got tired of not being able to watch TV without electrical interference. ;-)

     

    This is the family TV and a 12 year old me with my grandpa on his birthday

     

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    Thanks for all the responses, everyone, and sorry for those I didn't get around to (this story is a bit of a "free time" thing I squeeze in around normal writing duties.) Anyway, I'm still looking for a few more shots of peoples' TI-99 setups. If anyone has some to send over or if you just want to give permission to use your shots from the "post your picture" topic I would love to be able to use them. Thanks.

     

     

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    I have been in contact with the developer of the new Geneve II.

     

    It is still in development and it is FPGA based.

     

    Hopefully some tracking will happen this year.

     

    You happen to know if it will plug into the PEB, be stand alone or be both?

  16. Posted · Edited by LASooner

    You know? Until I read through this thread I had forgotten that I have seen a video controller in the wild functioning. Back in 1989, I was at the US Army recruiting center in Anaheim and the recruiter had me go through a video course on learning about the army, it was a laser disc controlled by a TI-99/4a, I remember mentioning to the recruiter that I had one of those computers at home and was impressed that it could control a laser disc player. I haven't thought about that at all until I came across this thread.

     

    It's not the only consumer system I ran into in the army

     

    During basic training we had rifle range simulators that ran on Commodore 64's called MACS, they later switched to super nintendos, basically it was a decommisioned M-16 with a light gun attachment and a solenoid to simulate bolt action, so you could practice for your rifle qualification

     

    http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA217593

     

    http://retrogamersociety.com/independence-day-salute-the-armys-macs-system/

     

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    I would like to take full credit for it, but I basically recreated the one from gamestar baseball on C-64

     

     

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    an underrated baseball game, they revised it with GBA baseball by adding a batter's view, but it was basically the same game

     

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  19. Posted · Edited by LASooner

    Wow, wonder if LASooner went anywhere with this? I love baseball games!!

     

    haha yeah straight into the programming wall that has thwarted me for decades. I want to do it, I really do, but I get home from work and just want to sleep. I've thought about trying to do this in XB, but I'd like to learn assembly, but then I get distracted by squirrels and there goes that.

     

    This was as far as I got

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