James app-2008

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One thing i just thought of. im thinking this cursor text scrolling behavior might be slightly older than the ms dos. Ibm pc of the eighties it might be an older behavior

The emulator looks nice and i might check it out. but i really want a real crt monitor. I like old tech especially well built hardware. And i really want like in war games a black and white display. Its a beautiful monitor in war games, to me. i dont want the green phospor screen monitor? There nice but not exactly what i want. I would love a operating system thats scrolls like war games. a couple of things. I specifaclly like the scrolling in war games. One thing the cursor behavior maybe its not referred to as scrolling. Its what i call it. but its the way the text displays and interacts with the cursor? i dont know if youve seen war games you can look up a scene on youtube. Where the main character David is in his bedroom. but its what id like to emulate. The closest i got is on my mac se running soft pc and a version of ms-dos. but its a slightly different thing. I havent used it in a while but i know it behaves differently. Its the closest ive come. And its really nice.

Just out of curiosity the f18a is vga? do i need a vga monitor? my crt color monitor is composite it has a bnc connector? also why can i read my black and white composite monitor better?

Hello, i just posted about the movie war games. But this is a related question. im interested in the old command line interface, and in particular scrolling. Ideally i would love the set up in war games. in war games there is a black and white text didplay on a crt monitor. The cursor, i dont know if it blinks but it is like a square or rectangle. As you type the cursor moves to the right revealing text. And when you press enter the cursor moves to the right revealing text. im interested in this in general. i know on my moderm mac i can get to a unix shell command line. But it behaves differently. Like when i enter ls i think thats the list command. All the files appear at once. i also have a mac se with a version of ms-dos called soft pc. It is actually really nice. The cursor is an underscore its different than war games but if i type in like lets say dir at the command line prompt the text will scroll. I havent used it in awhile but it is nice. but ideally id like the set up in war games. Its a slightly different thing. When you enter text the cursor moves to the right revealing text? I think if you entered a command the effect to me is like the cursor moves to the right revealing text? I dont know if older systems made a noise when scrolling? i dont know how that type of set up would display lets say a table of data or file system but id love to see it. id love to learn more about text scrolling on the command line. I googled but the articles i saw are referring to something else. but i wondered if any older programers computer enthusists know what im talking about. and if possible could help me to try to emulate a system that would allow me to do this? ive also seen teletype like in rambo which i see as like an online data or information scrolling on my screen as ive described? anyway any thoughts ideas or experience with what im describing or point me in a direction as far as computer operating system set up to try and emulate this would be great. Or even anyone who remembers this phenomenon, your memories of different scrolling on systems youve worked on would be great to. thanks in advance

Hello, i have a ti99/4a computer that i currently use with a small black and white, crt. i think its a 9” monitor. i have a nice sony nine inch color, crt, monitor that i use for games and tv with a convertor box. but when i hook up my ti99/4a i have trouble reading the text as it gets blurry. for some reason my black and white crt is better at displaying text. But ive always thought the ti99/4a startup screen is beautiful in color. And would not mind fooling around with programming in color. so i wondered if anyone had some thoughts on how to either improve my current color screen? Or a good idea for a color crt monitor for the ti99/4a i want a crt. ive looked at the commodore 1702 which looks nice. Although i haven’t seen the ti text command line or startup screen on it? also what about a high end pvm or bvm? I have an ikegami monitor i really like that is rgb capabable. anyway any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated

Hello, one of my favorite movies growing up was war games. ive read in the movie, the monitor david uses in his room was an electrohome 17” black and white monitor. im kind of looking to get something similar. I really love the monitor in the movie. And have always been fascinated by early computers. Terminals cursors command lines scrolling and teletype and the like. ive bought a couple of crt displays for retro gaming. I also have an atari 800, an ti99/4a and a mac se. but id love to buy a crt but it gets overwhelming looking on ebay. but im kind of after something specefic. I dont want the green phospher or amber display there nice but i really want a monitor close to the one in war games. i like the build quality. I definatly dont want a more modern plastic shell computer monitor. I think i want an older steel to me anyway better build quality crt for retro command line computing in black and white? Any thoughts or ideas?

So lets say i have a simple program: 10 a=500 20 call sound(a,440,6) 30 end if i saved this file to disk i could load it and run it and it would play the note as specified? i was told if i went to reload the program the variables would be reset to zero?

But if i want to use variables in my programs i was told i have to link them to a data file. and then in the main program i load them somehow from the data file? im not at my computer tomorrow im going to do some reading im sure ill have questions. but if someone could explain how to use variables in a ti program that would be great since i uses them when writing my music programs? do i have to have a seperate file to store my variables. Thats what i was told then in my main program i load them somehow at the beginning of my main program so i have access to them?

Im not at my computer right now. But from what i remeber related to what im askkng. if i use variables in a music program like lets say a=500 for a note duration. i think i can’t just type them in and save the file. Because they get re-set to zero when i try to reload the file? i think i was told i need to somehow link a data file with the variables to the main program? not really sure how to do this but id love to use variables in my music programs? any thoughts on how to do this?

Hello i recently got out my ti99/4a. I have a nano peb sd card reader. i bassically am fooling around with writing computer music. And i would like a way to save files so i can go back and work on them and to have a way to store my songs. awhile back i tried posting on these forums and ran into a lot of problems. one thing i think i remeber if i want to have variables like lets say a=500 for note durations. That i need to somehow link a data file to my program? anyway i have my ti up and running and would love to be able to learn how to save store and retrieve my programs. Id also like to learn to be able to access the file system on the ti99/4a? so any help would be appreciated. Also i dont know if there is a good book someone could recommend for a newbie with some basic info on the operating system btw i find the ti99/4a not that intuitive. It doesent make any sense to me lol

Hello i recently got out my ti99/4a. I have a nano peb sd card reader. i bassically am fooling around with writing computer music. And i would like a way to save files so i can go back and work on them and to have a way to store my songs. awhile back i tried posting on these forums and ran into a lot of problems. one thing i think i remeber if i want to have variables like lets say a=500 for note durations. That i need to somehow link a data file to my program? anyway i have my ti up and running and would love to be able to learn how to save store and retrieve my programs. Id also like to learn to be able to access the file system on the ti99/4a? so any help would be appreciated. Also i dont know if there is a good book someone could recommend for a newbie with some basic info on the operating system btw i find the ti99/4a not that intuitive. It doesent make any sense to me lol

Thanks for the reply. i think im gonna bring my 7800 to my electronics guy to adjust the pot

Hello just plugged in an atari 7800 centipede one of my few 7800 games. in my modded 7800 the game shows up in black and white? maybe as ive read in other posts my 7800 color pot needs adjusting? Any help or thoughts on what could be wrong are appreciated. like i said my other 2600 games work fine any thoughts or ideas are appreciated

Hello i recently had a 7800 modded. Its a ultimate atari video rev. D mod by the brewing academy. i had initially tested a frenzy 7800 cartridge which displays in black and white? i put it away for awhile but got it back out to further test it. for some reason? My frenzy 7800 cart displays in b/w. Also my berzerk cart does not work it is frozen crashes on startup? but all my other games mostly atari 2600 games work good with good colors? can anyone help me? i had a electronics guy do my mod. And im not sure what is wrong most games work good