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Maybe. 15 hours is still around $15 for a single print, but I've pushed my luck with printing stuff at libraries, and I don't want to have that happen here, with the 3D printing.

15 Hours? Jeez, yeah, not likely to convince the library to do that for us, let alone get the money for that. Eesh...

https://www.warsawlibrary.org/3DPrint_handout_web.pdf This looks to be the 3D printer they use. Dunno if this makes a difference. But 15 minutes for the printing, at $1 per hour of printing, that should let us make enough to cover our collection in under $10. Thanks.

Actually, I just checked online, and our library does do 3D printing for a fee, approximately a dollar per hour it will take to print the item. What is the standard estimate for 3D printing your holder?

We don't know. We'll have to check, next month, when we're not so busy with life.

We're thinking of finding a way to get ArcadeShopper's holder 3D Printed for storage, but for now, we've got them stacked up in our general video game bookshelf.

Sadly, my boyfriend and I won't be able to attend or support; constant raising rent prices and car repairs are keeping us from having the money to save up for such a trip. We hope those who can attend or contribute have a good time, though.

Hmm. Well, as I said, I noticed that the books in the line that were made in 1985 and onward dropped the TI support, so I dunno if that's true.

Hmm. Well, this is the book I was talking about: https://ia600707.us.archive.org/31/items/RetroGamingBooksFiction/AMagicMicroAdventure-TheCatsOfCastleMountain.pdf It doesn't have the TI listed, so I guess it's not compatible? I noticed that the books made after 1984 dropped the TI from their compatibility list, so maybe that's why?

I found an archive of game-related books in digital format, and quite a few of them are BASIC game books, one of which I remember from my childhood, called Cats of Castle Mountain. I want to try them out, but they don't have the TI listed as a compatible computer. Is there a way to get these game books working in the computer's version of BASIC?

Speaking of batteries, my boyfriend is having so much trouble with getting a working battery for his PC; the one it came with died after a good number of years, the second one he got was acting funny, and this third one isn't working at all. It's like fate doesn't want him to stay online, anymore...

The troubles my boyfriend and I had with his original TI is well-documented on here, but for those not wanting to necrobump the relevant thread(s): It was sitting in a barn for years, and despite cleaning it up the best we could, we got a black screen with no sound from it. Tried several attempts to replace parts to get it to work (thanks to the generosity of people on here), but it failed, so Ksarul sent us a working one, and we traded away the non-working parts to ArcadeShopper for games and controllers. The funny thing was, after one particular repair attempt, it worked for about 15 minutes, but then locked up and refused to work, anymore. I always wonder if ArcadeShopper managed to get the time to get around to looking at the old parts and find a way to get them working, again...

An addendum to my post: 1. If Catacombs 3D isn't possible, maybe Faceball 2000 (aka MIDI Maze)?

I've not had any real bad luck with Seagate drives. I forgot if it was a Seagate or a WD drive, but I bought an external 3 TB hard drive secondhand that ended up busting on me after a while, almost got nothing off of it before it died, and several things I still lost on it.

So, after getting it analyzed, we've determined that the desktop we salvaged can be upgraded to a decent rig, for around $200 or so, with the right parts. Right now, we're looking at a Phenom II X6 1090 processor, at least 4 more gigs of ram, and at least an AMD R9 290X video card, maybe some more hard drive space and a wireless card, but those aren't particularly necessary. It's going to be rough scrounging up the money for the parts, especially after what we had to do to get the money for our recent car repair, but we'll be looking into any help we can get (paid, of course).

Hmm... 1. Catacombs 3D (probably would be easier to do than Wolfenstein) 2. Renegade/Target Renegade (beat-em-ups learned about from Ashens) 3. Some sort of platformer, like Whomp 'Em 4. Chip's Challenge 5. Marble Madness

Speaking of computers, my boyfriend and I are trying to get a fairly old desktop upgraded to allow him to run his games on it. We're hoping to be able to upgrade everything to the point where he can at least run Doom 2016, but that might not be likely on our budget.

I've only got 2TB for my storage, and I only filled up half of either hard drive, so I dunno what you guys are stuffing 6+TB worth of storage with.

You guys know the Computer Reset store that I linked you a video to, a while back? Well, LGR got a prize from there working, and even uploaded the contents to the Internet Archive for posterity. Turns out, what he got was a genuine Super PCJr from Sierra's QA testing branch, owned by Ken Williams, and had a bunch of stuff, including a bunch of developer debug saves for the game Codename: Iceman. You can see his attempts to explore it and get the info off of it here:

Trying to help raise money for some car repairs, and I notice there was a sale board on here, and I'm wondering: we have a Merlin the 10th Quest complete in box that we've been wanting to sell, and we're wondering if we should post it up on that board, and if so, how much we should ask for it. Ebay is all over the place with the prices for that handheld, so...

It's highly doubtful we'll be able to make a trip that far, but after seeing Ashens' mystery box videos at the place, my boyfriend is interested in checking out the Center for Computer History in Cambridge, UK.

Apparently, there's a ton of new-old stock there that's been untouched for decades. Everything from PC compatibles that run Doss on back.

Apparently, there is (or was) a place in Dallas, Texas called Computer Reset that had a ton of rare retro computer stuff. I'm not sure if it's still available, it looks like it is, but it's more open to a select few, probably need to get permission to get into it. Has anyone heard of this?

I wouldn't mind an emulator of those TI graphic calculators that people use to play Tetris and Doom on...

So, looking at my and my boyfriend's finances, it's really looking like we won't be making it to the TI convention in the Chicago area, any time, soon. I know we have the Hamfest in Fort Wayne, IN that we used to go to, but it's been dwindling in size and interest for a while, now. Does anyone know of any other, similar conventions in the Fort Wayne/Elkhart area that we might be able to go to to look into getting more TI stuff from?