Just picked up a TI lot

[G-type]

I've been wanting to get a TI for a while but I didn't want to pay to ship a large box. I finally found one local!! Now I just need to rebuy some of the other cartridges from my childhood collection. (Also need to get the speech synthesizer module)

 

Edited December 10, 2015 by G-type

[RickyDean]

I've been wanting to get a TI for a while but I didn't want to pay to ship a large box. I finally found one local!! Now I just need to rebuy some of the other cartridges from my childhood collection. (Also need to get the speech synthesizer module)

 

Seems to be a pretty decent collection, Hope you get to enjoy it, especially here at Christmas time.

 

[VectorGamer]

It would be nice to know what carts you got. I think I see Parsec but can't tell anything else.

[Omega-TI]

I've been wanting to get a TI for a while but I didn't want to pay to ship a large box. I finally found one local!! Now I just need to rebuy some of the other cartridges from my childhood collection. (Also need to get the speech synthesizer module)

 

 

 

Cool! Welcome to the TI Club.

 

Say, if you are comfortable with a soldering iron, you may want to consider << THIS PROJECT >>.

 

For the price of a couple of Ebay purchased cartridges, you could get that console updated to use the new breed of cartridges, and that will save you a ton of money because you'll be able to use all the new mega-game cartridges listed in

<< THIS MESSAGE >>.

[Opry99er]

Welcome!!

[am1933]

One more of us, one less of them!!!!!!

[+Ksarul]

You found a good lot of nice things! You might want to list the other cartridges you are looking for, as one or another of us may have spares of them. I break up a LOT of common cartridges to use the cases for multicartridges, so I've always got a lot of the more common stuff on hand. . .

[+RXB]

Welcome!

[unhuman]

Welcome!

[Opry99er]

If you pick up a tape deck, I have a couple Holiday Demo tapes still in inventory.

 

 

I can also tell you that there will be at least two more cassette releases in the next couple months of actual games.

 

Think about it!

[kl99]

Welcome back!

I also returned to the TI-99 world in 2009 with buying the real iron. Emulators are not the same

I love the sound when you type on the keyboard, I love the silver aluminium.

Our family with me being a kid also had the TI for a long time, and with others moving on the collection grew and grew.

 

Compared to nowadays computer this one still has a soul. Or like Mark Wills said, it's something special like your first girlfriend.

If my laptop would get broken, I would simply get the data over to another one, probably faster and more powerful model, but if my TI has a problem, I will try everything to fix it.

If your girlfriend gets sick, you wouldn't replace her with another girlfriend, which is more attractive and still healthy.

So somehow this computer has a special meaning to us, which is not true for laptops or any PC I got since.

Hard to explain but might be one the reasons for people to return.

 

The 99/4A console has composite out as well, so you can skip the tv-modulator. The picture will be far better with composite.

With getting a nanoPEB you will have a very complete setup to load and run any software, it includes 3 virtual disk drives, 32k ram and a rs232 serial port (important for Web99 )

http://webpages.charter.net/nanopeb/

 

There are plenty of cartridge projects going on, the new boards allow us to make multicartridges, the most extreme being the "2048K Games 1" that let you select between 127 former released (and unreleased) cartridge games all on the same module.

 

If you get a real PEB, the hobby will get even nicer

 

Klaus

[G-type]

here are the cartridges:

 

 

This lot included several duplicates.

I'm still looking for:

Blasto
Tunnels of Doom
Jawbreaker 2
CarWars
The Attack
Defender
Shamus

Picnic Paranoia

Micro surgeon
Super Demon Attack

a-maze-ing

[G-type]

 

Cool! Welcome to the TI Club.

 

Say, if you are comfortable with a soldering iron, you may want to consider << THIS PROJECT >>.

 

For the price of a couple of Ebay purchased cartridges, you could get that console updated to use the new breed of cartridges, and that will save you a ton of money because you'll be able to use all the new mega-game cartridges listed in

<< THIS MESSAGE >>.

I have never soldered anything before... and I'm not sure I understand what that project does or what new breed cartridges are.

[G-type]

Welcome back!

I also returned to the TI-99 world in 2009 with buying the real iron. Emulators are not the same

 

The 99/4A console has composite out as well, so you can skip the tv-modulator. The picture will be far better with composite.

 

 

Yea, I'm using the composite out. I hook it up to my CRT... only problem is I have a lot of game consoles sharing that TV and have to constantly swap them out.

[RickyDean]

 

Yea, I'm using the composite out. I hook it up to my CRT... only problem is I have a lot of game consoles sharing that TV and have to constantly swap them out.

You can purchase a multiple switch or a unit to tie them all together and use the switch or a remote to switch between them, then no more wiring couplings/decouplings. I have both, but the one I have hooked up now uses a remote control to switch from one to the other.

[+Ksarul]

I may have duplicates of most of those cartridges on your want list in my box of future donor cartridges. . .

[Omega-TI]

I have never soldered anything before... and I'm not sure I understand what that project does or what new breed cartridges are.

 

Well, if you've never soldered before, this is probably not a first project for you. A good first project would be the

<< Alpha Lock / Joystick Fix >>.

 

The project I referred to puts 32K in the TI console, that let's you use the extra memory requirements of these "new-style" carts.

 

The 'new breed' allow many games and/or utilities to reside in one single cartridge, where the 'old-style' was basically one program per cartridge. For a returning TI'er, one cartridge per program can get bloody expensive, and locks them out of the new 'homebrew' stuff until they purchase an expansion unit or can wait or find a Nano-PEB as the other alternative.

[Opry99er]

Minesweeper runs unexpanded...

[Omega-TI]

Minesweeper runs unexpanded...

 

Is there a .BIN available for download? If so, I was unaware and seemed to have missed it. If one exists, could you point me to the message where it's downloadable? I'll be more than happy to add it to the .BIN Repository list.

[Opry99er]

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241217-minesweeper-game-on-sale/page-1

 

 

I believe it is DLable from post #139.

 

Make sure it is the most current build available though.

[kl99]

 

Yea, I'm using the composite out. I hook it up to my CRT... only problem is I have a lot of game consoles sharing that TV and have to constantly swap them out.

 

You can try to aim for an old Video/Audio Home Cinema Ampifier from the pre-hdmi generation. It's very convenient to connect multiple inputs to one output (=TV or beamer) and choose the channel via remote.

http://www.avsforum.com/photopost/data/2179030/c/cc/cc8a5029_Denon_AVR-5803_back_large1.jpeg

[G-type]

 

You can try to aim for an old Video/Audio Home Cinema Ampifier from the pre-hdmi generation. It's very convenient to connect multiple inputs to one output (=TV or beamer) and choose the channel via remote.

http://www.avsforum.com/photopost/data/2179030/c/cc/cc8a5029_Denon_AVR-5803_back_large1.jpeg

wow, that'd solve the problem