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[Munchman for Android Available]

Would love an iOS version. There is an iOS version of Parsec.

[I typed in a BASIC program from a 35yo mag...and just talked to its author]

This was a fun one. Blog post:

 

http://www.bytecellar.com/2017/10/03/a-program-from-a-35-year-old-magazine-for-basic-month-and-a-chat-with-its-author/

 

(TI Extended BASIC program, btw.)

 

 

 

bp

[Jeff Minter is looking for rips of Jag T2K mods/songs]

Can anyone help? (He's wanting to put them in Atari-sanctioned Tempest 4000 for PS4.)

 

https://twitter.com/llamasoft_ox/status/907938494156328964

 

https://twitter.com/llamasoft_ox/status/907938637152768000

 

https://twitter.com/llamasoft_ox/status/907938813141450752

 

 

 

 

bp

[Getting BASIC prog in a remote textfile running on a TI?]

Thanks for the help, folks! I got the program running on real metal and made my entry to the r/Retrobattlestations BASIC Month competition. I took a video, linked in my Reddit submission:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/6qt6lt/reentered_a_basic_program_i_first_keyed_in_on_my/

 

Cheers.

[Getting BASIC prog in a remote textfile running on a TI?]

So, I finished getting the BASIC program entered in a text editor and I got Classic99 running on Windows. I pasted the text in (pasted fine) and it runs in emulator. I saved it out to a DSK device and a file appears in the DSK directory. Can I send that file to the TI via serial using TIMXT and save it to a physical floppy on the TI and run it in XB? Or will that not work with that file C99 created?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

bp

[Getting BASIC prog in a remote textfile running on a TI?]

I got TIImageTool running, but I don't see an option to read text file and output a BASIC file. Can someone point me in-app to the right pathway?

 

Thanks.

 

 

bp

[Getting BASIC prog in a remote textfile running on a TI?]

I appreciate the response to my earlier thread asking how to get a BASIC program keyed into a textfile running on a TI via the FlashROM99. No real way to do that.

 

What I'm trying to do now is take this BASIC program in a text file on a remote system into a real TI-99/4A and running in Extended BASIC.

 

What I have to work with:

- TI-99/4a

- PEB w/ 32K, Serial, 5.25" floppy

- WiFi232 device

- TIMXT term prog on cart (FR99)

 

On an emulator I assume I can just paste the text file into the emulator in TI Extended BASIC and run there, but I want to run on my physical TI and I have no way to write out 5.25" floppies to feed the TI.

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

bp

[Knight Lore]

Extremely impressive.

 

It pains me that the PEB, 32K, and FlashROM99 won't get me there. :-) Might have to step up one day to the other flash cart.

 

 

bp

[Pascal on the 99/4A]

Speaking of Turbo Pascal, here's perhaps a rarity:

 

 

[ Full photo link ]

 

I bought this in 1987 to use not with a Macintosh but with my Atari 520ST fitted with the Magic Sac cartridge, part of a Macintosh emulator by David Small that worked amazingly well.

 

 

 

bp

[Getting a BASIC prog into a TI via FlashROM99]

Right - makes sense.

 

Ok, say I use TIMXT to receive a file transfer via serial (does it support file transfers?) -- how can I get the ASCII into a BASIC listing that will run? I will be saving to a floppy disk with a physical PEB. Thanks.

 

 

bp

[Getting a BASIC prog into a TI via FlashROM99]

Sounds like a job for the << Lotharek HxC >>

Forsooth, I have several HxCs, but not one on the ‘99, and because I lack one for the ‘99 I’m asking after a process that might exist involving the hardware I do have.

 

 

bp

[Getting a BASIC prog into a TI via FlashROM99]

I have a '99 w/ PEB and the usual slotted in and a FlashROM99. Is there some mechanism where I can type in a BASIC prog on a modern machine and get it onto the SD card and somehow have it accessible as an Extended BASIC program? All this without using floppy disk or a serial link?

 

Thanks folks.

 

 

bp

[Spectrum 512 not working on my 520ST]

 

It is timing dependent. Try a different slideshow program? I have a vague memory that Spectrum had to be updated for later STs. Maybe try the "Photochrome" program, which is the best image viewer I know of for ST.

 

Thanks for the tip. I will try to find an image for Photocrome and throw it on the HxC2K1.

 

 

bp

[Spectrum 512 not working on my 520ST]

I have a 520ST that I've expanded to 4MB RAM and upgraded to Rainbow TOS (1.04). NTSC machine w/ a SC1224. When I run any of the Spectrum 512 slideshow disks, I get garbled images. I know timing is key with Spectrum 512, but I'm not accelerating the system.

 

Any ideas?

 

I used Spectrum 512 happily on my decades-ago 520ST w/ earlier TOS and 1MB RAM. Thanks.

 

 

 

bp

[Blog Post about TAZ, 16-color @ Med Res ANSI terminal emulator]

I have gotten heavy into telnet BBSs and became rather impressed by the ST terminal program, TAZ, that allows 16 color ANSI emulation at medium res (2-bit color, of course) by way of color interlacing. Kind of like Megaroids and Quantum Paint, in approach. Anyway, I wrote about it a little and have a video showing the effect.

 

For those interested.

 

http://www.bytecellar.com/2017/06/18/four-colors-into-sixteen-terminal-innovation-on-the-atari-st/

 

 

 

 

 

bp

[So, my new F18a seems to have died]

Opened the unit. Bare board, it works. Tho shield has not cut into ribbon insulation at all. Not sure what's going on.

[So, my new F18a seems to have died]

Tried different VGA cables (and displays). Sadly, not the cause.

[So, my new F18a seems to have died]

If I leave the machine on, every now and again the LCD power light goes amber to green and I get message :

 

"1 analog signal -- cannot display this video mode"

 

So it's periodically sending something not VGA-coherent.

[So, my new F18a seems to have died]

Have you tried a different monitor? One of my old 4:3 monitors failed recently, so maybe it's worth checking if you haven't already done so.

 

Yep. Not the monitor. Does the F18a run hot? Thermal failure likely?

[Is my Myarc RS-232 card bad?]

Your Myarc card as well as the CorComp, TI, nanoPEB, and ubergrom are all usable for terminal emulation at 38.4Kbps when coupled with TIMXT. Programs like Telco and Mass Transfer start dropping characters at 4800bps.

 

I'm guessing the null modem dongle works for you due to how the Myarc RS232 is wired internally. Your configuration /might not/ work with a TI or CorComp RS232. Would be good to test if you can share a little more about your setup

 

Well, the fun's over.

 

Left the TI on all day and just came back to TIMXT (off w/ family and re-arranged room so I can actually sit in front of the '99) and noticed color on screen was tinted muddy color. No key response. I powered off and on - no video out. Looks like the F18a is in some part dead. (I made another post about this in the TI area with more details).

 

Not a happy birthday present. :-/

 

 

bp

[So, my new F18a seems to have died]

I spent much of the weekend opening my 99/4A, removing the cassette jack, installing F18a, placing VGA out in the place of the cassette jack, etc.

 

Powered on and all was good. Fun last night and was online (telnet BBS) via WiFi232 and TIMXT this morning. Left the term prog loaded all day while I cleaned and rearranged the room so I can actually sit in front of the 99 to BBS properly, aaaand.... I noticed the text on TIMXT was no longer white but a muddy color. No keyboard response. I powered off and on -- no more video output.

 

I can hear the TV power up, I hit 2 for FR99, can hear things as I navigate thru it and load a random cart and I see from its LED that it's loading a cart. But no video out.

 

I tried it on a different VGA LCD, no video there either -- so it's not my screen.

 

SO disappointing. Was so looking forward to BBSing in ANSI color on the TI here on my 45th birthday (today). Definite birthday downer. I really don't want to pull everything out again and open up the TI -- no energy for that again, not tonite.

 

Any ideas out there? Is there a chance things are not fried? I now the TI needs the gfx chip to access memory, or I believe it does. So, it can't be fully fried.

 

The ribbon cable is well secured, screwed into the case. No stress on it since I turned on this morning.

 

https://twitter.com/blakespot/status/866030731725819904

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

bp

[Is my Myarc RS-232 card bad?]

Thanks, I.M. And I fit a null modem switch dongle on the cable and things are now working. Great to see.

 

How high do you think I can go with that Myarc RS-232 board as far as bps? What can the TI handle? Thanks.

 

 

bp

[Is my Myarc RS-232 card bad?]

It is a std PC serial cable and WiFi232 is a Hayes modem.

 

Do I need a null modem cable? If not, what. And thank you for the help and the app!

[Is my Myarc RS-232 card bad?]

Shift838 you're using a real PEB?

 

I am just using a serial cable and the WiFi232 looks like a Hayes modem, so no odd pin configs, InsaneMultitasker. I am told this ver of TMIXT works with real PEB, yes?

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/253095-flashrom-99-finalgrom-99-image-repository-5142017/page-15?do=findComment&comment=3560143

 

I get no change on screen with any typing. As if not connected.

 

Is the red LED on Myarc card when PEB on but 99 off a odd thing?

[Is my Myarc RS-232 card bad?]

Huh, I just found this (micorpendium PDF page 19)

 

ftp://whtech.com/magazines/micropendium/mp9405.pdf

 

I guess that's just serial port 2?