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It’s not the first sold on the second hand market. I sold one of mine to another forum member here for cost shortly after they originally sold out.

Their inventory is all donated stuff, but they do get vintage stuff pretty regularly. I have been going there to donate/ buy stuff for years. I don’t think the popular vintage stuff is around long enough to get put on their website.

Motivation for any hobby comes from within. If you have to ask for it or seek it from an external source, you are doomed to fail!

Impressive! I am amazed at what you could do with just 10 lines of code.

Great idea, but a Horrible implementation!

I have the original ti sticks, but never use them. I find the wico or other Atari style sticks to be much more comfortable

I left my TI turned off for 30 minutes, came back and it is now working normally.....I just loaded the disk image from the TIPI and played a few rounds... I love the music and the atmosphere you have created for this game. One question. Is it possible to defeat the bats when they corner me in a door? They have killed me several times and I can't seem to defeat them. Nevermind the silly question. I figured it out with a bit more trial and error.

Thank you for trying to help me out. I don't want to hijack your thread about this awesome game.... When basic loads I just a have a blinking block cursor. Everything else is "invisible". I have also been having other seemingly random strange behavior with it tonight. I will need to start a separate thread to get some help diagnosing the issues.

I received my copy in the mail today too! I was all excited to hookup my TI and play a great game only to be disappointed by my retro hobby. Apparently 40 year old hardware is not always reliable.... Perhaps I should look into using an emulator instead of old hardware when I need to get my retro computing fix. I have some video issue where the boot screens look fine and basic loads, but no characters appear on the screen as I type. The cursor moves but it is like cyan text on a cyan background. I can't see it! I will now need to investigate if it is an issue with the recently installed F18A or something else. All part of the fun, I suppose....

I just ordered my copy. Can’t wait to play it old school!

I love what you have put together! Kudos and congratulations on the release! I haven’t had a working tape recorder for my TI for 35 years, I may have to track one down.

I like it! An impressive start for a “simple” TI BASIC game that can run on the base system! Way better than the run of the mill type in games back in the day.

I think I have come across a bug with the 4.19.042 version. I have reproduced it on both real hardware and on the Steam version. Start a new game Go to the General Store in Althorpe. Select buy. Press Q to examine any food item(hardtack, potatoes, etc) Game screeches and locks up! Examine works fine on other items and every where else I have tried it.

I would try downloading the latest SD card image to a different card and see if that works. Another possibility is that the WiFi doesn’t work on your Pi. I had a Pi3b where the WiFi chip started overheating(burning to the touch) and the WiFi stopped working. That pi is probably over 5 years old, but the WiFi just died in the last week.

If you need to edit the WiFi settings on the pi you can use the following command after logging in. sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf After making your changes hit Ctrl-O to write the file, Ctrl-X to exit nano. Then reboot the raspberry Pi.

When I was having hardware issues with my TIPI that prevented CALL TIPI from working, I found it easiest to create or edit the wpa_supplicant file directly on the Pi. This is the file where you specify the SSID, psk and any other options needed to connect to your WiFi.

Rich - I am a bit confused by what exactly you are having issues with. Setting up a share on your windows pc isn’t really a TIPI related topic. You can use the web interface at http://tipi:9900 to upload files to the SD card once your Raspberry Pi is up and running. Or you can use the windows explorer and go to //TIPI/ to access the shares. When you use call tipi, the tipicfg program will notify you if there is an update for the DSR and allows you to update it. EDIT: I do agree with you about the documentation. What Matt has put together is very good and detailed, but some of the simple first step things like this are either hard to find or missing all together

It looks like the communication is not working. The values for M5FF9 and M5FFB in Easy Bug did not match the TIPI was writing. The reads on the TIPI side were always 00, even after setting the values in Easy Bug. I tried this with both my Pi Zero and Pi 3B.

Hmmm. That makes sense. I am new to using easy bug. Here are the results.

I went through the those steps (using easy bug) already and everything appeared to be working. I could toggle the led with the c1100 command. I was a bit confused with regards to to m4000 command and what I should be seeing. When I enter M4000 and hit enter, it comes back with 00 for as long as I keep hitting enter. When I enter a value after M5FFF (such as 55 or AA) it is always zero when I check it again.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried it both with my 32K sidecar and SAMS sidecar. Both of them do pass their respective memory tests when I ran them.

point well taken. but that solder blob is on a ground pin. Let's assume that my poor soldering job somehow managed to send the +5v to the cpld on the TIPI. Is there any way to diagnose and/or repair the TIPI?

Edit - I don't think the wiring was ever hooked up wrong so that the +5v would go to the TIPI. That is on the other end of the GPIO pins. Not a chance it could happen with my Pi zero, it only has the pin headers for pins 31-40 soldered in. If it was accidentally done when testing with the Pi 3, is there any way to verify and/or fix the situation? Another fresh flash of the SD card. I followed the steps you mentioned. Photo shows the results. No watchdog loaded. I also attached the new daemon.log tipi-daemon.log

I have tried downloading the zip file again. I also copied to 2 different SD cards. The first using BalenaEtcher and the second using the Raspberry Pi Imager. Same results as before with both SD cards. I then ran the update.sh script and it updated to 2.36. I then ran the post-upgrade.sh (entering the password for what seemed like 100 times.) and rebooted the Pi. Same results - locks up when I CALL TIPI from TI Basic. I have attached the new daemon.log from my latest attempt. tipi-daemon.log

My tipi.log always shows a file not found error. If I create a file, it is removed on reboot and not recreated. I have attached the daemon.log, but I don't really see any clues in it. Any suggestions would be welcome. tipi.daemon.log