+OLD CS1 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 It is how Galactica survived the Cylon virus which infected the Colonial Fleet. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flottmann1 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Schmitzi has the European Central Warehouse for TI ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 It is how Galactica survived the Cylon virus which infected the Colonial Fleet. So say we all! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chefgon Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 I've finally got my system set up enough to share a picture! I'm probably not your average 99er as I didn't grow up with the machine (my family had an Apple II when I was a lad). I had actually never heard of the ol' 4A before a couple years ago! I first learned about it while watching retro computer videos on YouTube and I fell in love with it, eventually deciding to invest in my own system to experience it for myself. I got really excited and spent probably-too-much on various components on eBay over the last few weeks to piece together the system you see here. So far I have... Silver/Black Console Composite cables Joystick adapter Speech Synthesizer Disk Controller sidecar TI Floppy Drive TI Program Recorder I also picked up a ribbon cable to extend the sidecars under the shelf for a nice tidy look, and I have one of the modern 32k sidecars with a 3D printed case on order but it hasn't arrived just yet. Up next I plan to pick up a Lotharek floppy emulator and find a respectable desk to put it all on. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 oh cool! i dig the sidecar disk controller and external floppy. Cool use of monitor stand a FinalGrom99 multicart would be cool addition, too! http://atariage.com/forums/topic/260917-the-finalgrom-99/page-10?do=findComment&comment=3802011 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Actually what you have is likely much more representative of the average "expanded" system back in the day. Peripheral expansion boxes were very expensive and few were made. Nice! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 You've got one of the best extender cables made too--that one has all of the right KELAM-style connectors on it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Hey!! We have the same monitor!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chefgon Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Hey!! We have the same monitor!!! 7F42E678-A831-4BF2-8F61-17CEB4A91B16.jpeg It's a great monitor! So many different connections in the back. I found two of them at a thrift store a few months ago and I really regret only buying one of them. I went back for the other one the next day and it was gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 i got a new tv for my computer desk. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I just sifted through my old floppy disks, and this caught my attention. My first floppy drive was single-sided, hence the cutouts. No, this is not what I mean. This is a SSDD disk - look at the label on the upper left corner. I doubted that they actually existed. The problem is that when you have a sector dump disk image of 180 KiB, this should be considered a DSSD disk. For the sector dumps, MAME actually peeks into sector 0 to make sure, but if that disk is not formatted, this may be a problem, because a SSDD disk with 18 sectors/track, 40 tracks, and 1 side has exactly 720 sectors like a DSSD disk with 9 sectors/track, 40 tracks, and 2 sides. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 yes I have a bunch of older disks that "say" ssdd, but they are really dsdd.. made flippy-floppies out of most of them on the apple ii you didn't need the index hole so super easy for that just cut a write protect notch and there ya go, ti, trs80 all needed the index hole mine were a little nicer than yours i used a hole punch instead of an axe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Not an axe exactly, but nail scissors. If you punch a hole, you need to pull out the medium, or you get a second index hole. I think the 1541 of the C64 did not care, you did not even have to cut a hole in the jacket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Not an axe exactly, but nail scissors. If you punch a hole, you need to pull out the medium, or you get a second index hole. I think the 1541 of the C64 did not care, you did not even have to cut a hole in the jacket. Yes, the 1541 and 1571 do not care about the index sensor. They use the sector markings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Today labeled my FG99. I had this idea since more than one year bynow finally i found the time to remove from the list of things to do 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 yes I have a bunch of older disks that "say" ssdd, but they are really dsdd.. made flippy-floppies out of most of them on the apple ii you didn't need the index hole so super easy for that just cut a write protect notch and there ya go, ti, trs80 all needed the index hole mine were a little nicer than yours i used a hole punch instead of an axe On the whole floppy disks i am dumping there are some disks modified to be dsdd. I must say anyway that most of them have errors on the modified side or mostly unreadable. The main original side instead haven't problem. Probably the back side of the floppy was not the same quality? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Back then, if both sides of the disk media passed QA testing, it was labeled as DSDD. If one side failed, it was inserted into the cover with that side as side two and labeled SSDD. Later when disks became much more common, it was cheaper to just trash the disks that failed, so the SSDD disks disappeared from the market (or were just DSDD disks labeled as SSDD). Note that there were also disks sold back then certified as DSQD to indicate they worked properly in a 720K drive as well. Oddly enough, I have never seen SSQD floppy disk media, although there were several drives manufactured in that configuration. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewmacattack Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Just added some more ti99 cassette titles to my collection. Always looking out for others to add 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewmacattack Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 My intrigue software collection, looking for two titles complete the collection. BENEATH THE STARS PANIC ON THE TITANIC (never even seen this one ) Hoping someone may have a spare copy willing to sell 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xabin Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Sorry for the janky pics, my tablet doesn't have that great of a camera. Just wanted to let you guys know that Ksarul's package to us got here, and we confirmed that it works wonderfully on both the CRT and flatscreen, but our old one is still busted. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Not an axe exactly, but nail scissors. If you punch a hole, you need to pull out the medium, or you get a second index hole. I think the 1541 of the C64 did not care, you did not even have to cut a hole in the jacket. not really you just lift the jacket away from the media and punch just that .. don't punch the media my hole punch has a very thin bottom part so it slides right in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 not really you just lift the jacket away from the media and punch just that .. don't punch the media my hole punch has a very thin bottom part so it slides right in there I used this punch BITD: I have also used this punch, with a little more care, of course: Hole placement was a litle easier with the second punch. ...lee 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 not really you just lift the jacket away from the media and punch just that .. don't punch the media my hole punch has a very thin bottom part so it slides right in there hehe, I had one Apple2 disk I notched with a standard paper hole punch, and I misjudged it and hit the media. Because I only owned three floppy disks at the time, I had to use it anyway. Fortunately, it worked fine for years, but I was always amused that I had managed to notch the media. (I was always much more careful after that, too). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Cool little punch! Do they still make them? Do they have a name? Presto is more well know for pressure cookers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Cool little punch! Do they still make them? Do they have a name? Presto is more well know for pressure cookers... Here is one such punch on EBay. ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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