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  3. Posted · Edited by Airshack
    All thumbs typos

    Just picked up a 1040ST and...

     

    1. Planned to see if it works — CHECK!

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    100% functioning to include good video/sound and formatting a floppy drive. 

     

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       I didn’t get any diskettes with the system so testing was limited. Where can I find that BASIC program language disk? Is there a modern replacement? 

     

    2. Started tearing it down for retro-bringing the sun damage — CHECK!

     

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       Case damaged reduced but back out for now because I detect a slight amount of oxidation remaining. 

     

    3. Tore it down to clean the system...

     

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    Anything revealing here about the revision?

     

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    Epson floppy 720k (?)  seems fine — common?

     

    4. Thinking I need that OLED GoTek in place of this floppy drive. Agree? How do I prep a thumb drive for the ST+GoTek? How about the UltraSatan device? Any one better than the other?

     

    5. Noticed 256k memory modules. Will this system support 1GB modules? If so where do I find them online?

     

    6. What does the handwriting on these labels mean? 

     

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       Are these some sort of upgradable ROMs? Atari socketed them! 

     

       Your help with my restore/upgrade project is appreciated.

     

       - James (from the TI-99/4 Group)

     

  4. Posted · Edited by Airshack

    2 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

     

    For whats its worth, Indoor Soccer and Football were produced in the earliest days of the 99/4.

     

    True. Along with Wumpus being another early release. Football plays like it was probably a graphical front end added to the popular mainframe text-based football simulator also found on early 70s time-share systems. 

     

    I’ll bet the early TI game programmers played variants of the early computer sports and adventure games in college. 

     

    Fun Facts:

     

    ”During the 1960s, Dartmouth’s membership in the Ivy League revolved around its football team. In 1962, computing students under the tutelage of Kemeny and Kurtz named one of the college’s homegrown compilers the problematic acronym SCALP. The Kiewit Center brought the same rough-and-tumble masculine bonding into the teletype room again with sport- and war-oriented computer games, including at least three versions of computer football games (FTBALL, FOOTBALL, and GRIDIRON). In fact, Dartmouth distinguished itself from most other universities by actively encouraging student gaming and recreation on the network.”

     

    TI Football is probably a port of these older style games.

     

    Dartmouth is also where BASIC was invented in 1964.

     

    ”In the 1960s, Dartmouth College became ground zero for the coming explosion in American computing after college mathematics professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz developed a new programming language that was relatively easy to learn: Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC. Kemeny and Kurtz wanted to a create a novice-friendly computing entry point that would attract young talent for the college’s newly developed Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, a network of teletype terminals located across New England colleges and high schools that connected, via telephone lines, to a mainframe General Electric computer at Dartmouth.”

     

     

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  5. Posted · Edited by Airshack

    2 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

    On the other hand, MBX Baseball was pretty good. Still not as much joy as Intellivision Baseball, the only great sports game on that system.

     

    Intellivision Baseball, Football, and Hockey were all IMHo fabulous. Baseball was the best of the lot. Intellivision later released single-player v AI versions of Baseball and Football. Significantly better than Odyssey2 and Atari VCS.

     

    The Odyssey2 sports titles are in the middle between Atari and the Intellivision 1970s benchmark. 

  6. Posted

    I feel like this thread has answered the original question pretty decisively: there definitely isn't a game that nobody likes. We've even heard nice things said about ZeroZap, MunchMobile and The Attack.

    Nobody defends TI’s gutless non-action sports sim known simply as...Football. An obvious translation of some kind of stats based board game or teletype text game. On a system with great graphics and sound there’s no excuse for something this void of joy.

     

    Zero player control over gameplay? It should be called Football Coach.

     

    Every console from the 1970s had a better football game.

     

     

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    Surprised there has been no non-love for Hunt The Wumpus. How could a fairly basic computer game (and literally able to do in BASIC), become a full-fledged cartridge game?

    This is probably why:

     

    “ It has been cited as an early example of the survival horror genre, and was listed in 2012 on Time's All-Time 100 greatest video games list. The Wumpus monster has appeared in several forms in media since 1973,”

     

     

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    Hunt the Wumpus seems unique to me, even by today's game standards; I mean, you're the one hunting the monster, not the other way around, and the fact that you need to use clues and avoid traps to do so and that you only get one shot makes it kind of nerve-wracking, to a point. I've never really seen another game out there that has the premise of "You are here, in a maze, you are actively hunting down a monster that will kill you if you don't kill it, first, and you've got one shot to do it with. Good luck." I honestly can see a remake done with a Minotaur myth setting or something.

    TI’s Hunt the Wumpus is a remake of an early text based mainframe computer text game. They put a nice graphical front end on this famous game. It came out on cartridge because it was wildly famous before microcomputers were a thing:

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus

     

     

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    I do play Qix on my 5200, but my 5200 does not have a nice crisp F18A driven video output. RF cannot compare.

    When I finish the UAV mod on my 5200 I’ll let you know how it went. I’ll also need to do the power mod as I have the old style power/RF combo.

     

     

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  15. Posted

    One other thought--we might want to compare the high scores here with the ones on the last page of Yesterday's News. Some of these may be better than the older entries there--and all of the new games played would help flesh out the game list even more. It might even attract some more folks back to the system if the see there is lots of activity (just one more vector to point them here, as there really is a lot of activity here).

    The best scores here should be in Yesterday’s news for sure. Too bad Sparkdrummer doesn’t read this thread.

     

     

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  17. Posted · Edited by Airshack

     

    the aliens move too fast then line up and you die.. until you are out of lives.. everybody dies.. nobody wins made for a very short high score contest ;)

    ...everybody dies! Ha! True.

     

    It looks like the artwork was finished but the gameplay was maybe 50% complete. I’d like to know the back-story on this one.

     

    Notice how even the name of the game is screwed up. Label says Super Demon Attack yet it’s just Demon Attack when you plug it in — title screen? Definitely not a finished game.

     

    How on earth did this one make it to market? As if someone sent TI old incomplete code or they decided to ship a beta version during the panic of 1983?

     

    Fun Fact: Imagic’s Atari 2600 Demon Attack won the 1983 Arcade Award for "Best Videogame of the Year", with the judges commenting that the game had "turned out to be yardstick against which gamers measured the quality of each new cartridge during 1982".

     

    The TI “Super” version was programmed by Bill Mann with credits to TI, not iMagic.

     

     

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  19. Posted

    Unfortunately, once you get it working you will soon discover super Demon Attack isn’t super at all. In fact, it’s a rushed to market incomplete game which is impossible to play beyond the second boss level. Someone decided to produce those cartridges before the game was finished. One of the worst TI cartridges IMHO which is a shame because it has beautiful graphics.

     

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  23. Posted

    If you want to replace the RAM chips, console5 sells a kit that uses newer style memory which only needs +5V. Just make sure to follow the instructions to the letter or you'll fry them with +12V instead.

    I feel I need to discover the problem with an acceptable level of certainty before I try this.

     

     

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