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From the peanut gallery.. I'm totally down with Shamus (since I happen to own the cart and love the game, haha)

I dunno.. you might be giving me too much credit!

I'm currently smack dab in the middle. North Central seemed to be the closest for Missouri.

While I can't say that I have Weight Control, I do have one of the others. I sent ya a PM.

Welcome!

ooh, im pretty sure i know this one! I'll wait a couple days for someone else to reply tho

We're mostly making it a quiet weekend here in the Ozarks- the company I work for doesn't have the 3rd as a holiday and I didn't feel the need to burn a vacation day for it. I'm doing steaks tonight, but the biggest plans we have are to go on our bi-weekly grocery shopping trip and do housecleaning. I also told my wife that I was going to start an Excel spreadsheet with my cartridge catalog- this will help me determine what carts i need to start looking for. mwhahaha

correct, sir! your turn.

keeping it going...

if you're looking for a barebones / starter PEB this one isn't too badly priced. http://www.ebay.com/itm/TI-99-4A-A-TESTED-PERIPHERAL-EXPANSION-SYSTEM-PEB-/391827479950?hash=item5b3abcdd8e:g:th4AAOSwgv5ZU6Gf $126 US with shipping.

Dude, Gamevision carts? Sweeeet!

Hmm, these are super ideas! I've pulled out some sheet music, actually, i was going to use for my next program so I'll definitely try out the stuff you guys have suggested.

i found it on gameshelf. http://tigameshelf.net/xb.htm

I just picked up Shamus (yay!) and it's a pretty cool port compared to the C64 version that I've played. My thing, though, is I'm just not very good at the game. Does anyone have any tips/tricks they've picked up for the game along the way? I suspect one of mine will be 'don't use the standard TI joy sticks'. Thanks!

Hostile is as hostile does, dude.

dude, seriously- go find another dead horse to beat.

The best I could muster was about 22500 with just dinking around. I'm good for this month, I think lol Donkey Kong and Centipede are pretty darn good ports, I think.

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I'm a lurker on a lot of these boards (and actively participate on one)- but woooooow. It's like an industrial accident or something, and I just can't look away. My two cents since this thread has derailed into utter insanity- the threads I do read that are 'productive' i see folks that are obviously knowledgeable and obviously love their platforms of choice that they develop or in some way keep working with. i love reading all the crazy STUFF that the communities are still doing for the consoles/computers, a lot of it i think is better than the originally developed software/hardware/etc or greatly improves the QoL of the platforms. @2600problems, if you are just 23, my god, man! Settle down before you stroke out- the first rule of being a grownup is listening to other folks that are legitimately trying to help you.

"wise from your gwave...." The folks that have Slik Stiks- do you like them? I'm getting ready to get a joystick adapter and want something for longer than 5-minute game sessions.

The funny thing is up to this point I'm doing everything the hard way and messing around with my TI I guess it would make sense to dork around with Classic99/etc on my PC.

I've been refining my programming knowledge with Basic and Extended Basic before tackling Assembly (plus it's a little easier while I'm studying for a certification, too)- i love music so I've been looking at program code and ways I can make my own music programs better. The Extended Basic manual gives some really great info on the frequencies for notes/etc, but I was wanting an easy way to compute additional frequencies based on a half-step between notes. Here's what I came up with: 10 LET F=110 20 FOR I=1 TO 91 30 PRINT F 40 LET F=F*92^(1/12)) 50 NEXT I 60 END I had also started lists for different scales (chromatic, pentatonic) to make things a little easier as I code through written music. Pretty neat stuff!

I thought there were a few cool parts in 'I am Legend', but largely I felt the one with Charlton Heston was better.

"I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay

Well, if I ever come across something in the States that you are needing I'm sure we can work it out to where you don't pay crazy 'international' shipping.