Gary from OPA

Sony buying Paramount... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/paramount-sony-apollo-bid.html We can finally have a Spiderman vs transformers movie

Many thanks to @RickyDean the extra board I bought from him arrived today and now I will soon be able to build my own unit and check out the hard work and amazing things that @JJB has done to get all working on a TI99.

I have finally started to update my #Patreon page with my recent #GitHub source code releases for the #TI99 computer, and this is great way you can support my ongoing work for my new retro projects, check it out and let me know your thoughts & suggestions. https://www.patreon.com/GaryOPA

yeah, sadly the aliexpress and ebay resellers will be buying up stock and then charging more money soon as the news spreads. fpga cores are nice, but still having original parts are still best for building things, there always tiny little glitches or timing changes in the fpga cores, and then you have the issue fpga's themselves stop production more often then the original parts, and you have to port over the code to a new part, and overall some fpga's are more costly as well, and then there is programming side, and 3.3volt or 1.5volt level conversion as well, plus i still personally like having DIP only pcboards that can be easy assembled without all that smt stuff.

Sad to see the end of the Z80 Zilog era my first love is the TMS9900 but I also have a lot of respect for the MSX community and their amazing passion to keep making new games & hardware. I hope soon to again own some Z80 systems as many used the TMS9918 & V9938 video chips.

Boeing to launch flying cars by 2030 https://www.dexerto.com/tech/boeing-report-reveals-flying-cars-plan-in-the-works-2654391/

TikTok looking for a slice of users still using apps from the Meta empire: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/tiktok-rolls-out-meta-challenger-5893417/

Innermost Secrets Of TI-99/4A by Randy Holcomb This was originally a series of articles in the Computer Shopper, and it was reprinted in booklet format, and I didn't see any good copy of it on the Internet, so decided to test out my Canon MF3010 scanner in seeing how well it makes a PDF, as I have a number of printed items, including some of my own source code only in paper format, so I wanted to do a test run to see how well I can scan a number of pages and do an OCR if possible on them. Looking forward to any experts out there on suggestions on what are good settings or software to use for the equipment I have which currently is just a Canon MF3010 and sadly can only manually do one page at time. In the meantime, enjoy this PDF of this booklet which is good beginner guide to using the VDP and file DSR for assembly language programmers out there that want to get started coding on the TI-99/4a computers. 🥰 TI99-InnermostSecrets.PDF

Oh no... Not Lucky Charms...

First look at LEGO NASA Artemis Space Launch System set with 3,601 pieces! The unreleased set was spotted on a store shelf at the Taipei airport

Finishing touchup to my bare office walls, by adding today a colorful 99/4 marketing poster. "The Texas Instruments Home Computer gives you a tutor, an accountant, a librarian, a file clerk and a pro football team in your own home." What artworks should I add next to my office?

Best to send a PM message to @arcadeshopper as some items he builds on order so he can tell you what is available.

This so-suggested military grade weapon of mass destruction was purchased on Amazon for $26.11 under its commercial names “Liquid Ass” & “Wet Farts".

A GROUP OF GOOGLE CLOUD EMPLOYEES HAVE FORCEFULLY ENTERED THE CEO’S OFFICE AND HAVE THREATENED TO STAY THERE UNTIL GOOGLE CANCELS ITS $1.2 BILLION CONTRACT WITH THE ISRAEL GOVERNMENT It lasted 8 hours before they got arrested https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-employees-arrested-while-occupying-ceos-office-with-anti-israel-demands

First the resume were being only scanned by AI now the second step the interview is being done by AI as well with a fake human. Might as well go the final step and code myself as AI to reply back to the AI interviewer.

Former Blizzard/Xbox video game executive believes players should tip developers.

Best two things to get is a finalgrom99 and the sidecar that works as a tipi with 32k. That the simple way to do things. There also a Sams sidecar if you want to have more than 32k. https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/store/#!/FinalGROM99-cartridges-cases-and-parts/c/24438345 https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/store/#!/Sidecar-SAMS-with-44pin-header-for-TIPI/p/176285041/category=115338525 https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/store/#!/Raspberry-PI-ZeroW-pre-soldered-with-TIPI-connector/p/105647940/category=115338525

Phoenix 2001 Recallit v2.00 Source Code Release from the O.P.A. 1991 Archive Here is another great TMS9900 assembly code release from our archives, this program was one of the first to use RAMBO memory to store a name/address database allowing for very fast sorting, searching, etc. Sadly, over the years I have lost the original manual for it that was included when TI99'ers bought the program from O.P.A. back during the '90s, if anyone has a printed copy they could scan in that would be great! Enjoy! 🥳 -=(GaryOPA)=- Original O.P.A. Project Page: https://garyopa.com/recallit/ Also available on my GitHub as well: https://github.com/gary99opa/Recallit2001 * PHOENIX 2001 RECALLIT v2.00 by Cecil Chin of O.P.A. * * 1991 Source Code Release * By Oasis Pensive Abacutors * Via Gary Bowser (GARYOPA) * Released April 16th, 2024 * Uploaded to ti99.atariage.com * NF-S -> Recallit Main Source Assemble File NF-MAIN -> Part 1/3 of Recallit Assembly Code NF-MAIO -> Part 2/3 of Recallit Assembly Code NF-MAIP -> Part 3/3 of Recallit Assembly Code NF-MAIQ -> Recallit Printing Routines NF-MAIR -> Recallit Sorting Routines NF-SUBS -> Most of the Common BL Sub-Routines NF-BLWP -> Recallit Video & DSR BLWP Routines NF-TEXT -> TEXT lines for Menus and Printer NF-DATA -> Recallit DATA, BYTES and BSS's NF-LOW -> Phoenix 2001 Logo,Chara,Title Data RECALLIT.dsk Recallit2001-Source-Files-Only.zip Recallit2001_2_00_GARYOPA_04_16_2024.zip

The genuine bowser.sys file is a software component of Microsoft Windows Operating System by Microsoft. A driver for Windows NT, this system file supports the NT Lan Manager Datagram Receiver. It allows your NT workstation to communicate with the Datagram Receiver hardware. The original bowser.sys is an important part of Windows and rarely causes problems. Bowser.sys is located in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers folder. Known file sizes on Windows 10/11/7 are 69,632 bytes (60% of all occurrences), 68,608 bytes or 78,336 bytes.