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Mail sent!!
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and since you linked to the Canadian eBay, let's put things in perspective (and in Canadian $'s)...
The drive: $396.24
Shipping: $ 46.20
eBay GSP: $ 60.42
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$500.86
But even that is cheap compared to this piece of stupidity:
Printer: $ 990.57
Shipping: $ 27.94
eBay GSP: $ 143.54 (!!!)
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$1162,05
For a dot matrix printer! And make no mistake, it's the 99/4 name plate you're paying for, since most of us actually used one of these (or similar) back then, which is about what I'd expect to pay for a vintage printer.
I used one of these!!!! With a TI RS232 sidecar!! They were rebadged Epson MX-80 with the RS232 interface included. Lately I've reprogrammed the eproms with the ones from an "IBM PC Printer" (another rebadged MX-80 sold by IBM with the IBM PC with a different eprom and the IBM extended ascii set) and used it with an XT until I sold the whole thing. The printer was replaced with an EPSON FX-1050 that it's still working here
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Isn't rasmus writing a SAMS game?
I've read some time ago Rasmus was writing a game and storing all the level data in SAMS
I can't remember the game name.
Cheers
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This is foreign to me but perhaps some of you might get a kick out of it.
Wonderful!! ENIAC Emulator!! Now we need a Colossus and a Univac one
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9929A is for PAL. I think the 9928A is generating 60Hz signal, but I have never heard about anyone using this chip.
Of course, as usual, you are right. I've mixed the 28A and 29A, misunderstanding the whole point of the question
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Hi, I've connected my PAL TI99 to a multitude of displays using the YPbPr output with a custom made cable. You don't need to modify anything in the console. Most displays worked fine, except for a TCL 46" LCD display (UNSUPPORTED in the screen) when used YPbPr, but working fine with only the Y signal via Composite input, in B&W.
Despite working in both Sonys I've tried, a DELL monitor with YPbPr input and a Panasonic plasma (it's actual display) voltages aren't standard. The blue signal is too high so all colors have a bluish tint. I was able to correct it in the DELL using a custom color setting, but in the other displays colors were too cold. Of course your display needs support for PAL signals.
This is the pinout of the PAL TI. Just connect Y to Green, Pr to Red, Pb to Blue (try some resistor to lower Blue channel signal if you want), Audio to Left and Right audio channels, and all grounds to Ground.
Also, if you tweak an US TI win the 9928A, you'll end with a PAL, 50Hz console. The opposite is true with a PAL TI with a F18A, it'll run at 60Hz. The VDP commands the hertz rate. not the console.
Regarding scanlines, if you use an old 640x480 VGA monitor (CRT of course) with the F18A you'll have the same (or very similar) scalines than a NTSC display (both have 480 lines at 60 Hz)
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Yes, exFAT is licensed. That's why I've said it's incompatible with Linux. Regarding FAT32, it has a 4Gb limitation, so even taking account of the 2GB bug in root directories, a 5Gb file will never be copied to a FAT32 filesystem, even in a subdirectory. exFAT works in macOS because Apple licensed it from Microsoft. I've used it in my common data drives when I had a Hackintosh using dual boot with Windows 7 and Lion.
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I even reformatted it and it still will not work.
For larger than 4Gb files you need ExFAT or NTFS in Windows. ExFAT is compatible with MacOS in RW but not with Linux. NTFS works with both but in RO (at least in MacOS by default).
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Perhaps a flash rom device that plugs directly into the Cassette port? Would probably need an external power source.
I leave that to the brains.
I hope this seed sprouts. It would completely do away with the need for cassettes or tape drives.
Perhaps even a push button system to select wav files with a display (like a Lotharek drive or Modded GoTek).
You can do that right now, with a smartphone. It's exactly what I do with the TI and a C64 (using a line-out to cassette adapter in the C64 case)
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I'm going to try it
Either $6 down the drain or it will work and be a nice clean solution 
check this:
It uses 3+5 (said in the description) and you can connect it directly to an RCA input.
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Can one of these be used for only audio?
I hate that nobody provides the pinout on these things. Was/is the audio pinout standard (Pin 3)?
Probably yes. If it uses the standard EU audio pins, 2 is ground, and 3/5 are left/right output channels (and 1/4 are the input ones in a tape interface), so in the TI case, in pin 5 you'll have no signal and in pin 3 you'll have audio.
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Based upon your advice I dug around my garage to find my old (non-working) C64. To my delight I found it, inside were the cables and found that the C64 already had a DIN connector, exactly like the TI, with a composite video and audio plug. No further out of pocket expense and it works beautifully. Thanks again all.
Yes, as you can see in the graph I attached, TI (NTSC) C64 and Atari 800 can use the same DIN-5 cable for AV (composite) connection.
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TI made a PC Clone and had to withdraw it from the market. It did smoke the PC at the time on performance and specs.
The TI-PC was a very popular PC clone here, and in fact both the floppy disk access and the video (similar to EGA) blow the IBM out of the water. I used it with compiled basic programs and when finally used the same program in a IBM PC it took AGES to read and write the same info from a diskette compared to the Ti-PC (not to mention the screen was monochromatic)
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Just the inital of my first name and my last name. Seems to be a rather unique combination as I used it everywhere without any nickname clash for many years
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You must assemble a cable (or buy one) from the DIN-5 (DIN-6 if it's the PAL version) audio out and common ground to a RCA plug (or the connector you have in the monitor)
Those are the pinouts for various retro computers
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The blank keyboard strips are the only thing I kept from my original TI99 from 1983. Totally by accident. Buried in a drawer
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Hey Omega, you were teasing all of us with some big development (maybe a new XB compiler?) showing at FW2017
Where's the big reveal? Or it was postponed/cancelled/delayed?
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I lost all hopes to win!!. 32180
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The egg drop thing... Every 5,000 points, you "unbreak" an egg. So, if you hit 5,000 without breaking one, then break one at 6,000, it will not show as broken, because you were in the "positive" for broken eggs.
After 15,000, that luxury goes away, and a broken egg is a broken egg. You can bank 3 eggs to the good, though. So---If you get a favorable seed and you have good reflexes, you can go quite deep.
Nice first score!!!
All makes sense now
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Just a first start for Argentina. As an example, here is all what I have for TI-LOGO.
I just added a TI-Logo AND TI-Logo II -Carts as "AR/ES"
But I have to think about, maybe I´ll enter them as "AR", and add "ES" for the languange in the PART-column (?)
Same maybe for the Multilanguage (ML) EU-Cartridges, as they sometimes are "(D) (I) (NL)" a.s.o.
The Carts like "Statistics German (D)" will be / are "EU/DE" and have (D) for the lannguage, in the Parts-Column
So here the languages already given, as printed on the carts labels. This should remain (because of the label),
I have to see. At this moment I am still able too differ that, so I´ll wait with changes on that, until the final idea
It depends if the /DE part in "Location" is strictly location or language. In the former case /ES has no place in the label
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Thanks!!
Do you notice than sometimes an egg falls but it does't register as broken? Usually (always?) when you are exactly below it. Maybe is a feature and not a bug. But I think it also happens with "stolen" eggs. Not completely sure.
I'll also check in my PAL console if this game is easier or not because the slower speed.
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Yesss!!!!!
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What's the Ti/99's version of the SD2IEC like for the Commodore?
Also soldering joystick jacks is quite annoying. Could you folks help me decipher the plans for the Adapter. It doesn't look like it matches up with the Atari joystick standard.. the male plugs seem... backwards?
Lotharek HxC. It´s actually an SD based floppy drive emulator for any device using standard Shugart interface (as the TI, or the PC). You need a PEB and a Floppy Drive Controller Card too. Another option is a NanoPEB (if you can find one). It's a CF based floppy drive emulator/32K expansion combo sidecar unit.
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OoeyGUI Mess v2.0 Released
in TI-99/4A Computers
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Hi.
Regarding natural keyboard, I've found a bug. Natural keyboard doesn´t work with geneve emulation (at least in a mac) and the GUI correctly gray the option, but if you used natural keyboard during a ti/99 emulation and then switch to geneve, the guI still sends the -natural option in the command line, and the keyboard does´t work.