[MRS CP/M OS for Foundation Z80 Card]

10 hours ago, RickyDean said:

More than likely, there is a lot of information on the net about people who have made their own CP/M machines. The Foundation used the WD2793 controller chip, so that could be a bit of the problem, but not impossible.

yeah it's gonna be a lot easier to just make a single board cpm computer that uses the pbox for power and has a serial port (which is exactly what the foundation is) OR just use the emulator on the pi connected to your tipi with telnet

[MRS CP/M OS for Foundation Z80 Card]

12 hours ago, RickyDean said:

Gentlemen and Gents, I now present to you the First disk designed to allow communication with the Foundation CP/M card with the TI. This was copied using a GreaseWeazle, I'm not sure if my previous attempt a coup[le of years ago was successful. You use Extended basic and Load the program ZE3 on the disk. Now I need to see if the other disk is around here to use on the CP/M side. I have Word star and others, but need to locate the MRS disk and try to flux copy it.

Term Emul ZE3.dsk 90 kB · 1 download

this looks like just fast term from Paul C  .. seems to be modified a bit tho

 

[TI Related -- Ebay / Heads Up Notice]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404487931578

ok who did it

 

 

[TI Cartridge shells]

8 hours ago, atrax27407 said:

Anyone have a bunch of extra cartridge shells (preferably black) that they would like to get rid of? I need about half a dozen at a decent price. Send me a PM, please.

i have cart shells in my store

[SHIFT838 F18A Pre-order #3]

1 hour ago, Nessus said:

Thank you, Thank you!

 

I just saw the item next to it for $150 that said SOLD OUT, and did not pay any mind to the one you just mentioned.  Order will come as soon as I can get my card!  Will I need the $12 header?  I assume not, but want to make sure.

 

K-R.

the 12" is for custom installations or things that require a longer cable. in a 4/a the cable that comes with it is sufficient

[Cannot use original TI diskettes required by cartridges - user error?]

1 hour ago, Peregrinans said:

Yes, at least on NOS blank disks.  I've formatted a disk, saved files to it, loaded the files, run the program....I've also run non-destructive tests on older user-generated disks (i.e., not commercial program disks) and those tests checked out ok. That's what has me stumped, the FDD seems to work fine on everything except original TI program disks.  One of the TI program disks was even sealed NOS so, apart from purely age, I'd think that it should read ok.  Very confusing.  I suspect the answer is in plain sight but I just can't figure it out...I don't know how to test the FDD other than running various DM2 utilities on it, which is what I've done. Thanks...

your drive is either slightly out of alignment OR the speed is off..  check the speed first..  you can check it with a cellphone camera on some drives

 

[SHIFT838 F18A Pre-order #3]

20 minutes ago, Nessus said:

It is still available?  The arcadeshopper Web-site said "out of stock."  The one I have (purchased in 2012) seems to be having some problems.  I would like to say I would do immoral acts to get another one, but I'll have to settle for handing over some money...

 

K-R.

no it says:

F18A MK1 VDP replacement & VGA ribbon FPC cable

$98.00

PRE-ORDER

$150.00 Save 35%

 

Out of stock, available for pre-order

 

order away when they get here I'll ship it out.. usually comes in batches every few weeks

[SHIFT838 F18A Pre-order #3]

39 minutes ago, panzeroceania said:

Do you have any plans to do another run of the VGA F18A ?

the mk1 f18a is out and available at arcadeshopper.com   no need to do any of the old expensive versions

 

[Cannot use original TI diskettes required by cartridges - user error?]

are you able to format a disk?  save a file to disk? load it?

if not, error messages?

 

Greg

[MP3 player to emulate tape CS1 on real TI-99]

I use this one without issue directly..  its also a cassette player and can record cassettes to files on the usb thumb drive..

https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/store/#!/cassette-USB-player-converter/p/483630166/category=0

[Off-Topic / Dumping Thread]

i stuck it here for now.. lmk if that's an issue

 

http://ftp.whtech.com/Users/stephen/

[The Legend of Beryl Reichardt]

4 minutes ago, FarmerPotato said:

It would be awesome if you could demo to the Zoom club on Saturday-1 to 3 PM CST!

 

 

yes!  https://jedimatt42.com/4a/zoom if you need the links/calendar

[Off-Topic / Dumping Thread]

On 9/14/2023 at 2:31 AM, blackbox said:

Hello. This is to advise the community that my web host is withdrawing their service from the end of October 2023. If there is anything on my website you need to stash, now is the time to do it.
I am entirely happy for anyone to copy any content to their own web site that they may wish.

If there is anyone on here who can post to the data/media side of archive.org, please do feel free to parcel up my web site and add it to archive.org in any way they see fit - the archive.org requirements for adding content are above my head. Suitable "collections" to add to would seem to be:
Texas Instruments TI 99/4a Books
Vintage BASIC Games: TI-99/4A
Folkscanomy Computer: Books on Computers and Programming
Computer Magazines

I will make every effort to ensure that all the pages and content of my website are backed up on web.archive.org by mid October- alas the web archive is not searchable- to see the archived pages just add "https://web.archive.org/web/202309/" before the original URL, that is instead of:
http://shawweb.myzen.co.uk/stephen/TI.htm you would need to type in :
https://web.archive.org/web/202309/http://shawweb.myzen.co.uk/stephen/TI.htm.

If you have any bookmarks to any part of my site please adjust the URL to now include the web.archive.org prefix as above. Make sure the date in the url you type is 2309 to ensure you see the latest version. The page returned will indicate in its url the date the page was actually grabbed.

The main parts of the website are:
http://shawweb.myzen.co.uk/stephen/TI.htm - the main TI entrance page.
http://shawweb.myzen.co.uk/stephen/stainless1.htm - a big section listing the programs offered by Stainless with screengrabs and the magazine reviews.
http://shawweb.myzen.co.uk/stephen/articles.htm - lots of articles and extra sources. Scans of the user group magazines are already to be found on the wht website.
http://shawweb.myzen.co.uk/stephen/book.htm- the book what I wrote. (safely on pixelpedant but without the correcton sheet)
http://shawweb.myzen.co.uk/stephen/pc99dsk.htm - disks for pc99 and v9t9 emulators (the UK disk library is safely stashed in wht already)

Feel free to explore the rest of the website- there is a wide range of unique material including radio history, music, and some real oddities.

Note: I cannot read nor reply to DMs via this forum- my computers and browsers are too old and as a pensioner I really can't be replacing everything every year. Any web host that does not support FTP is out of my league.

with best wishes Blackbox

looks like I can grab most of this with wget..so I'll put up a mirror of the stuff on whtech somewhere

 

Greg

[Off-Topic / Dumping Thread]

On 9/12/2023 at 5:52 PM, dhe said:

Me when you guys start talking about soldering:

I found you a keyboard to go with it .. 

[PRGE 2023]

https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/

 

I'll be there with my usual TI-99/4A booth showing the nintendo gamers what a 16 bit computer can do 

 

[The 41st Annual Chicago TI International World Faire]

Sadly the same weekend as PRGE

 

[TI-99/4A Live Stream Thread!]

YEP here's some of mine:

 

 

 

 

 

[New Release: Realms of Antiquity The Shattered Crown]

4 hours ago, Rafael1138 said:

Sorry but I get lost there. The SAMS in the shop has a header but I'm looking my Tipi and that board has no header. I have the one that uses the Pi Zero. 

the 32k/tipi has a card edge on the side, that sams memory plugs into..

 

pretty sure i go over it in the video here: 

clearly showing the card edge.. and you plug in the sidecar sams into that.. and i repeat .. you have to disable the 32k on your combo board to use sams as it also provides 32k and there can only be 1 32k device in a ti system

 

 

 

[TI Related -- Ebay / Heads Up Notice]

22 hours ago, globeron said:

 

IMPORTANT - 
Somehow ebay does not allow me to indicate "calculate international shipment fees" and I need
to select "Flat Rate" (I setup 2x accounts with the same issue).

 

 

NOTE:
**********
Additional International Shipment fees applies from Thailand to the country to be shipped to
**********

Ebay has the photos and videos
Also videos indicating EBAY are here at TI99VIDEOS channel (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/@Globeron-TI99VIDEOS/videos

 

 

EBAY:

1st ebay userid: ronvankl_0 (ronaldebay@globeron.com)
(used last time to sell 3+ years ago many TI-99 items from Europe, most people know this account)

 

Newly listed:
* TI-99/4 (big PIN version), (6-DIN, EU), built-in Speaker, Volume Slider
* TI-99/4 (5-DIN, USA)

 

2nd ebay userid: ronvankl6  (ebayth@globeron.com)
* UberGrom RS232 to PC
* UberGrom Education module
* Romox Programmable module
* FlashRom 99
* Navarone Module Expander 
* TI Compact Computer CC40

More to come with some unique TI-99 items,
but it takes some time to test it first.

(repeated message as ebay cannot calculate it...)
NOTE:
**********
Additional International Shipment fees applies from Thailand to the country to be shipped to
**********

 

 

I can't find either of these sellers on my ebay.. confused

[TIPI Usage and Support]

7 minutes ago, RickyDean said:

This may be a good alternative to a Raspberry pi too.

https://sequentmicrosystems.com/products/beagle-pi-raspberry-pi-emulator-using-beagle-board#:~:text=The Beagle-Pi is a,mapped to the identical interfaces.

It should allow using the Beaglebone Black as a Pi emulator. 

this is pretty much unnecessary at this point, I can order a pi any day .. for retail prices not scalper prices  if you want a 4 they sell out fast but more stock is coming in regularly now

 

 

[New Release: Realms of Antiquity The Shattered Crown]

23 hours ago, Rafael1138 said:

So I will need this TIPI:

https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/store/#!/TIPI-SIDECAR-Raspberry-PI-interface-board-*44pin-interface-port-required*/p/103690282/category=115338525

 

And this SAMAS:

https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/store/#!/Sidecar-SAMS-with-44pin-header-for-TIPI/p/176285041/category=22255086

 

???

yes

 

or just the sams and use the tipi you have and disable it's 32k 

 

[Atariage has been aquired by Atari.. fyi]

1 minute ago, Asmusr said:

It's great that Albert is still running AtariAge. Until that changes, I can find more important things to worry about... 🙂

this is my position as well

[New Release: Realms of Antiquity The Shattered Crown]

7 minutes ago, Rafael1138 said:

Hi. I just discover this game and the popularity of it but before get it I have a question. I have a Tipi/32K, after reading I understand I need a SAM to be able to play it. What could be the best option for me? There is a SAM version that I can connect to my port? Like Speech-->TIPI-->SAM with out the need of an additional PI? Thanks.

you will need to either

get a sidecar sams and sidecar tipi to attach to it

disable the 32k in your 32k/tipi combo and attach a sidecar sams after it providing enough power for both on the external power connector of tipi 

"   "                        "    "                                           expansion box with sams peb card 

[Atariage has been aquired by Atari.. fyi]

 

 

TLDR: they will own it, nothing is changing short term no forums or data are being shared with atari directly 

[PEB Help/Advise Please]

12 hours ago, RedBaron said:

I have a Gotek USB floppy drive, but I cannot seem to get it to read or write to a USB flash drive.  Can anyone help me to get this going?  Thank you Ricki

first off.. 

what firmware are you using?

are you creating disk image files and putting them on the flash drive? then accessing them through the gotek? or just trying to read/write to the drive itself? (note: it only works with disk image files) 

pictures? errors? details?