Omega-TI Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 I just stopped by the Wikipedia TI-99/4A entry for the first time. While I noticed it covered the F18A, I was wondering if an update was in order for some of the more recent and popular CONTEMPORARY HARDWARE items like the Plug-N-Play 32K and FlashROM 99 SD based multicart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 (edited) I think I'd rather see it get updated with a picture of a 99/4A also at the top of the page, rather than a 99/4, and the beige 99/4A has no picture at all in the article. Edited May 24, 2017 by Casey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Is there a link for all the P-Box Cards made for the TI99/4A? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 I noticed tonight the TI Extended BASIC entry, which is just a sparse section of the TI BASIC page, mentions nothing about its ability to use 32k, LOAD assembly language programs, PEEK memory, advanced screen I/O via ACCEPT AT and DISPLAY AT, &c. It also erroneously states that XB includes additional system resources for sound handling. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 3 hours ago, OLD CS1 said: It also erroneously states that XB includes additional system resources for sound handling. I mean where did that come from did they just make that shit up in their heads whoever wrote it? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 4 hours ago, Retrospect said: I mean where did that come from did they just make that shit up in their heads whoever wrote it? I guess you could consider transferring a sound list into VDP RAM via CALL CHAR and then being able to trigger the ISR with a CALL LOAD "new system function," but it would be a stretch. Otherwise, yeah, I think someone just pulled it out of thin air. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, Retrospect said: I mean where did that come from did they just make that shit up in their heads whoever wrote it? Not uncommon for Wikipedia. Edit: Oh. CALL SPEECH. If you don't know anything about the system, and hear Extended BASIC adds support for speech... you'll think that Extended BASIC by itself adds the capability to speak. It's entirely possible someone rephrasing something they read conflated the Speech Synthesizer and Extended BASIC and thinks they're the same thing. Edited October 22, 2022 by JB 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Have to admit whoever wrote the WIKI page for Ti99/4A does not know much about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Why not edit the Wikipedia entry then? Get an account, and improve the article. We have all the relevant experts in this forum. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 I tried updating the page with modern stuff and got told off for advertising.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 I am not an eloquent writer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 I know how to read-between-the-lines... ...So, fake-news is all-right with me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 6 hours ago, mizapf said: Why not edit the Wikipedia entry then? Get an account, and improve the article. We have all the relevant experts in this forum. Because people will just change it back to what they think they remember. I spent about a year maintaining it. Wasn't worth it. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 10 minutes ago, Tursi said: Because people will just change it back to what they think they remember. The promise of crowd-sourced knowledge. Woo. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 I did not expect that the situation could be any worse than in the German Wikipedia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Oh hell, don't give the job to me! I'm learning Forth and everything will be backasswards. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 15 hours ago, Tursi said: I spent about a year maintaining it. Wasn't worth it. Is there no way to confer with a moderator and get edits locked out? Like, if one particular user or group of users is contributed bad information, to get them locked out of the page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 1 hour ago, OLD CS1 said: Is there no way to confer with a moderator and get edits locked out? Like, if one particular user or group of users is contributed bad information, to get them locked out of the page? There are mechanisms, but I became pretty disillusioned with Wikipedia. I don't really like the way they run it and chose to walk away. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 I listened to some folks talk about the problem of fixing Wikipedia statements about themselves, or their own work. Where no published sources exist—so none cited. (Yet the writer presumed to know stuff.) We brainstormed about ways to get their history recorded, reviewed, and published. Then, it became much more exciting than trying to right a wrong on the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 5 hours ago, Tursi said: There are mechanisms, but I became pretty disillusioned with Wikipedia. I don't really like the way they run it and chose to walk away. Ninerpedia to the rescue. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Good luck trying to get ANY edit past the gatekeepers that inhabit (or, should that be inhibit?) Wikipedia. I gave up years ago. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmheads Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Yeah updating wikipedia can be a pain. Few years ago I updated some height/weight details of a Rugby player (I had a breakfast cereal players card with his details on it). I had scanned the card in and uploaded to my website, so I could use it as a reference on the wikipedia article (was trying todo the right thing not updating stuff without some sort of proof). Because the domain of my email address matched the domain of my website, the update was rejected (something like self promotion). I think I got around it by using a different email. Just sometimes lacks common sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 51 minutes ago, palmheads said: Yeah updating wikipedia can be a pain. Few years ago I updated some height/weight details of a Rugby player (I had a breakfast cereal players card with his details on it). I had scanned the card in and uploaded to my website, so I could use it as a reference on the wikipedia article (was trying todo the right thing not updating stuff without some sort of proof). Because the domain of my email address matched the domain of my website, the update was rejected (something like self promotion). I think I got around it by using a different email. Just sometimes lacks common sense. yeah this is pretty much what happened with my changes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 3 hours ago, palmheads said: I had scanned the card in and uploaded to my website, so I could use it as a reference on the wikipedia article Sounds like ORIGINAL RESEARCH to me! Humph! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 35 minutes ago, JB said: Sounds like ORIGINAL RESEARCH to me! Humph! Yeah, I need a peer-reviewed, trusted-party source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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