APB 99/4A

Yes, me and my kids bought the last Pitfall cart at the fair this year and was playing till 4 a.m. Very nice job! I never new the TI could manage so well with all the action on the screen. Clearly my best cart game in my families collection. I like that you posted the codes, would realy like to start learning how to program on the TI other then Basic and Extended Basic.

Nice video and the game has already one me over. How will it be released when finish?

Have a modem you set the receiver handset on it. Original TI Modem, No land line at home.

Ok after using Advanced Diagnostics testing the drive, it state that there is no data on disk during test. This is not true for I put a format on with a file name. Besides the other drive goes threw the test fine. Cataloging old disk that had my TI Write doc's just fine in disk one but disk 2 has the disk as not initialized. Any ideas what part of the drive faled?

Looks like external drive may have died, make a of nose when seeking head. Got out of DM2 and put extB cart with Advanced Diagnostics in Dsk 1 trying to test out why I can't format to disk 2. Rpm speed 290.5 to 300.2, That seems a good normal. Testing with same floppy the other drive preformated. Already tride the other to disks in DM2. Testing further.....No luck. This is a Texas Instrument 5 1/4 drive model No. PHP1850C. It seems the read/write arm is having trouble seeking and making a vibration noise that seems loud. By the above number is there a reference to see what style or format that drive is, only because I used that drive to back up my personal library not the SS/SD floppy in the expBox.

Catalog disk functioning. Found two more disks. External floppy two check. Powers up, grabbing a sizzers. This should be a DS DD drive I'm cutting a hole on other side and by center ring. Forgot how many tracks per side?

Can you believe tapes still work!? Ya got one formated disk going to do tape back ups got 7 Disk at 358 free.

Option 4 initialized track 40?

Quick test with DM2 states disk not initialized. Looking to format.

"PIO"= Print to in out port?

My printer hooked up just like you said in the blue jack, my old modem is hooker in the other jack, have not tried modem yet but no land line here anyway.

Ok got it printing. Paper finger out sensor at back roller was not registering, keeping printer off line. WOW can read ink still after 19 years.

Had to Fctn 4 to get slot 7 light to turn off. I/o error 36

Ok Wi Fi is still down here but I could I phone to your email but I use to do List "pio" And it wold work, going to try, ribon feels dry, if I had a little WD 40 I could redisolve the Ink but dont have that. Not working?

Working on loading paper I physically have them hooked up.

Ok back in the day my 9 pin Seikio print got nocked to the floor and blew a part by brother . He got me a panasonic KX-P2123 but I put it on my PC not the TI so I don't know if it will work. It had a color upgrade in it also but only have black carriage here.

Have 5 1/4 singel sided, has a pc format but don't need anything that was on it.

DM2 yep got it looking for 5 1/2 now.

Still doing good. Used tape drive and pulled up programs up and ran fine, Joy Stick Draw, and Close Encounters of the Simon Kind. Lost some time playing so games.

TI running of thumb, removed after load and still running. Classic99 runs off ram alone. . Something a little funny left TI up on boot screen and a co work tried to get on my workstation but could figure out what was going on with computer. Had window over max and hid the window edges just off side of screen. Ya I'm ready for programming tips, book I started back with is, TI-99/4A Sound and Graphics by Raymond J. Herold

Kat on e-bay they are selling one ex-box with a toggle switch, I think it might of run like yours and they tried to fix it in this manor.

2 running TI 99/4A's, PEB, Speech, 32k, Some type of floppy disk controller, Internal SS SD 5 1/4, external TI DD DD 5 1/4. P-card, ?Will update after I get Wi Fi up.

Yes I can run classic99 right from thumb drive. Taking a TI sprite book also with me .

That is great, thank you.

I'll try taking classic with me tonight.