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Hello Harry, Thanks again for sharing these great XB extensions! I have a 'real' TI with a CF7+ device installed (Plus XB). I loaded the XB Game Developers Package without any issues (RUN "DSKn.XB256"), but when I run the 256DEMO, the TI just froze. I tried a couple of times with the same result. As a matter of fact, after I load XB256, I'm not able to load or run any program. Any ideas on what could be causing this problem...? Many thanks, Adam

Thank you very much, Harry, for these great tools!

Thanks Tursi for sharing Mr Chin with the TI community!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and game, Retrospect. I'm afraid kids are nowadays more interested in their mobile devices than in learning how a computer works. I love BASIC; must be because it's the first programming language I ever learnt! I do 4GL programming for a living and I always joke with my sons that I really miss the use of the 'sacred' GOTO instruction.

Thanks Ksarul, marc.hull, RXB and RobertLM78 for your prompt suggestions and comments. Manic1975, I have a copy of YLOAD, but am not sure where I got it from. Maybe I could email it to you?

Dear all, Would there be a way of running the programs stored on a cartridge image file (.bin) on a real TI? In other words, has anyone written a utility that will allow a TI with a memory upgrade to load a soft cartridge into RAM and run it? Any ideas, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated, Adam

In case anyone is interested, there are more nanoPEB's available at eBay: http://rover.ebay.co...=item2ec90b991d Please note I have no connection with the seller other than having purchased a CF7+ from him.

Thanks Ernie, for sharing these disks with us!

Thanks Opry99er, I downloaded the XB256 package and it looks pretty impressive. I'll give it a go on mi TI. Thanks Jean Louis for your comments. I'm running a TI with a CF7+ that gives my TI an additional 32K of RAM.

Thanks senior_falcon. I'm just getting back into the TI99/4a after 30 years and wasn't aware of 'The Missing LInk" extensions. I have already loaded them into my TI and am ready to try them. Thanks again for your help!

Thanks RXB and Ksarul for your responses. I found the Amerisoft Expanded Graphics BASIC manual and gave its instructions a try. For some reason some of the commands don't seem to work, like CALL LINK("GRAFIC",0) produces a "BAD ARGUMENT" error message and CALL LINK("WINDOW",10,10) generates a 'SUBPROGRAM NOT FOUND' error message. However, CALL LINK("SETCOL,16,6) and CALL LINK("RECT",1,1,30,20) don't produce any error messages. Running the program sent by senior_falcon I just realised that the 'WINDOW' command is not present in the APESOFT routines on mecha2.dsk, mind you 'GRAFIC' is. So, it seems that I may have a different version after all.

Hi Tursi, senior_falcon and mizapf, I run the program suggested by senior_falcon and I did get the contents of the DEF table: GRAFIC SETCOL ARCUS etc. I tried running some of the commands using the CALL LINK statement and most of them worked. Some didn't. I guess this is due to the fact that I'm using as a language guide the manual of the Mechatronics cartridge and not the original APESOFT manual (I couldn't find this one). For example, CALL LINK("GRAFIC",0) gives me a 'BAD ARGUMENT' error message, so I guess the parameters of this command must have changed between the original APESOFT routines and the Mechatronic's.

Hi Tursi, senior_falcon and mizapf, I run the program suggested by senior_falcon and I did get the contents of the DEF table: GRAFIC SETCOL ARCUS etc. I tried running some of the commands using the CALL LINK statement and most of them worked. Some didn't. I guess this is due to the fact that I'm using as a language guide the manual of the Mechatronics cartridge and not the original APESOFT manual (I couldn't find this one). For example, CALL LINK("GRAFIC",0) gives me a 'BAD ARGUMENT' error message, so I guess the parameters of this command must have changed between the original APESOFT routines and the Mechatronic's.

Thank you very much Tursi, senior_falcon and mizapf for your suggestions. I'll give them a go!

Greetings all, I have two (soft) disks that contain the APESoft Expanded Basic routines. These routines were later included in the Mechatronics Extended Basic II Plus cartridge. The disk files are: mecha2.dsk (the actual routines) graphxb.dsk (example programs) The program that loads them into memory ('LOAD') is: 10 CALL INIT 20 CALL LOAD("DSK1.@XGGENINT") 30 CALL NEW (The file '@XGGENINT' as well as 'LOAD' are both located on DSK1 - mecha2.dsk) However, after RUNning the 'LOAD' program, the routines do not work. If I try to initialise them with the command 'CALL APESOFT', I get the error message 'SUBPROGRAM NOT FOUND'. The same happens if I try any of the other routines. I'm running TI Extended Basic and I have a CF7+ installed, so it shouldn't be a memory problem. Would anyone know how to get this routines to work correctly? Any help/ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Adam