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  5. Posted

    I am going to be out of town on the 9th but would still like to participate in the monthly group chat.  I am unable to take my TI with me.  Is there an emulator that supports serial connectivity?  I have a WiModem232.  I know that Stuart created a Python Script to Emulate the Lantronix Serial-to-Ethernet Adapter.  Is there any way to leverage what is currently available?  Is there any type of remote control software (VNC/RDP)/hardware (arduino) solution for the TI?

  9. Posted

    Good day everyone,

     

    I have a friend who contacted me recently. She dug her SX-64 out of storage that she bought new to run some games that she enjoyed playing some years before. She turned it on, and only gets a black screen (well, she described it as a white screen because she turned up the brightness when it didn't display anything).

     

    I told her that I would look at it, so I drove over to check it out. I confirmed that it displayed a black screen, no garbage. When I took the cover off, the rail on the right (from looking from the back of the unit) was broken. I asked her if she or anyone had it apart, and she told me that to her knowledge it had never been opened. The inside looked all original and I did not see anything that had been replaced. I spent some time cleaning it and checking all of the wire and board connections. I started to re-seat the socketed chips. The CPU board is a Rev A and I noticed that the 6510 MPU (ceramic type - original?) had thermal grease on the legs. I took it out and saw that the rightmost bottom leg (2?) was bent under the chip not inserted into the socket. I carefully straightened the leg and re-inserted it into the socket. No Change in symptoms.

     

    I tried taking out the SID, no change. I swapped out the PIA, no change. I swapped out the Kernal, no change. I am unable to locate a MPU to swap it out and I do not have the diagnostic cart & cables.

     

    Does anyone know where I can get a replacement MPU? If I can get a replacement and if it does not fix the issue, what should I try next? Does anyone offer diagnostic services?

  12. Posted

    I know it's a bit late but if you have 80 column support for your terminal program of choice, then connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl on port 23 to see the first movie Star Wars: A New Hope presented entirely in ASCII

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  17. Posted

    If the player supports FLAC then it might be an option as well. I take my cassette audio and recondition it using CS1er, and then I store the file as FLAC. FLAC is a free lossless audio codec that includes file compression so the files take up less space but without any loss in quality. Note: I do however, have to add a second of silence at the start of the CS1 output file for my player (foobar2000) to play it.

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  18. Posted

    It is probably an error in AEMSSYS not pointing to the correct pathname. Give us a look at your AEMSSYS file.

    atrax27407 FYI here is the contents of the AEMSSYS file. Last night I noticed that it had the attribute of "Classic" so I converted it to TIFILES format using Ti99Dir and it the console was able to read the file

     

    *
    * AEMS Boot Script
    *
    RAM 1024
    *
    SW99
    MENU DSK1.TIN_A,'TI-Nopoly'
    *
    ......................
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  19. Posted

    Success! Thanks to all of you for your help! It ended up being a simple issue that I had overlooked. If you look at my files screenshot. The AEMSSYS script file has the Attibute of "Classic". I converted this file to TIFILES and it loaded on the console. I feel embarrassed, but am very thankful for your input.

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  21. Posted

    Good day everyone. I need your help! What am I doing wrong?


    Goal: To play TI-Nopoly on real iron.


    Issue: Loading EA5 "ABOOT" on Classic 99 loads menu option E "TI-Nopoly". Loading the same file from the TI Console does not load option E.


    Hypothesis: The AEMS boot script is not finding the SAMS memory.


    CFG: TI-99/4A console w/Speech Synth, PEB (FlexCable Interface, TI32K, TIRS232, TIPI-PEB, SAMS 1024K, TIDisk Controller)


    Attachments:


    Files in Directory:

    post-65819-0-07455200-1556799906.jpg


    Classic 99 Screen Shot 1:

    post-65819-0-43634700-1556799911.jpg


    Classic 99 Screen Shot 2:

    post-65819-0-61761000-1556799917.jpg


    Real Iron Screen Shot 1:

    post-65819-0-69491400-1556800045_thumb.jpg


    Real Iron Screen Shot 2:

    post-65819-0-18651300-1556800056_thumb.jpg

  24. Posted

    I find it had to believe no one but me owned that book and converted programs out of it?

    Though I do remember most were exact duplicates from 99er and other mags.

     

    Anyway they have to be in this ZIP:

     

     

     

    Thank you for sharing those files!

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  25. Posted

    I have converted game #1 Acey Ducey using minimal changes. 

    10 PRINT TAB(26);"ACEY DUCEY CARD GAME"
20 PRINT TAB(15);"CREATIVE COMPUTING  MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY"
21 PRINT 
22 PRINT 
30 PRINT "ACEY-DUCEY IS PLAYED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER "
40 PRINT "THE DEALER (COMPUTER) DEALS TWO CARDS FACE UP"
50 PRINT "YOU HAVE AN OPTION TO BET OR NOT BET DEPENDING"
60 PRINT "ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU FEEL THE CARD WILL HAVE"
70 PRINT "A VALUE BETWEEN THE FIRST TWO."
80 PRINT "IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BET, INPUT A 0"
100 N=100
110 Q=100
120 PRINT "YOU NOW HAVE";Q;"DOLLARS."
130 PRINT 
140 GOTO 260
210 Q=Q+M
220 GOTO 120
240 Q=Q-M
250 GOTO 120
260 PRINT "HERE ARE YOUR NEXT TWO CARDS: "
270 A=INT(14*RND)+2
280 IF A<2 THEN 270
290 IF A>14 THEN 270
300 B=INT(14*RND)+2
310 IF B<2 THEN 300
320 IF B>14 THEN 300
330 IF A>=B THEN 270
350 IF A<11 THEN 400
360 IF A=11 THEN 420
370 IF A=12 THEN 440
380 IF A=13 THEN 460
390 IF A=14 THEN 480
400 PRINT A
410 GOTO 500
420 PRINT "JACK"
430 GOTO 500
440 PRINT "QUEEN"
450 GOTO 500
460 PRINT "KING"
470 GOTO 500
480 PRINT "ACE"
500 IF B<11 THEN 550
510 IF B=11 THEN 570
520 IF B=12 THEN 590
530 IF B=13 THEN 610
540 IF B=14 THEN 630
550 PRINT B
560 GOTO 650
570 PRINT "JACK"
580 GOTO 650
590 PRINT "QUEEN"
600 GOTO 650
610 PRINT "KING"
620 GOTO 650
630 PRINT "ACE"
640 PRINT 
650 PRINT 
660 INPUT "WHAT IS YOUR BET":M
670 IF M<>0 THEN 680
675 PRINT "CHICKEN!!"
676 PRINT 
677 GOTO 260
680 IF M<=Q THEN 730
690 PRINT "SORRY, MY FRIEND, BUT YOU BET TOO MUCH."
700 PRINT "YOU HAVE ONLY ";Q;" DOLLARS TO BET."
710 GOTO 650
730 C=INT(14*RND)+2
740 IF C<2 THEN 730
750 IF C>14 THEN 730
760 IF C<11 THEN 810
770 IF C=11 THEN 830
780 IF C=12 THEN 850
790 IF C=13 THEN 870
800 IF C=14 THEN 890
810 PRINT C
820 GOTO 910
830 PRINT "JACK"
840 GOTO 910
850 PRINT "QUEEN"
860 GOTO 910
870 PRINT "KING"
880 GOTO 910
890 PRINT "ACE"
900 PRINT 
910 IF C>A THEN 930
920 GOTO 970
930 IF C>=B THEN 970
950 PRINT "YOU WIN!!!"
960 GOTO 210
970 PRINT "SORRY, YOU LOSE"
980 IF M<Q THEN 240
990 PRINT 
1000 PRINT 
1010 PRINT "SORRY, FRIEND, BUT YOU BLEW YOUR WAD."
1015 PRINT : :
1020 INPUT "TRY AGAIN (YES OR NO)":A$
1025 PRINT : :
1030 IF A$="YES" THEN 110
1040 PRINT "O.K., HOPE YOU HAD FUN!"
1050 END
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