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Original owner as well (and a GramKracker too) and I was and still am amazed at the power of MG Explorer.

I had a ledger back in the day, but that is lost to time as well.

I believe my boxes of floppies as well as my original TI console setup and accessories were lost after multiple moves. However, I found a floppy tucked away in a drawer that had the source code to STAR (Super TI Assembly Routines), that I published long, long ago when I was in high school. Thanks to the help of @9640News who turned it into a disk image (since I had no drive that could read a DSSD 5.25" floppy), I am now able to share it with the community. I am releasing the source code to the public domain - all I ask is attribution if you use whole routines. I hope it helps someone out there. -Mike STARSRC.dsk

Right - excellent point about the reset button already being right there on the FinalGROM99, right in front of my face.

It's a little late in the game for me to be tossing out ideas, but this does seem like the ideal place to add a reset switch and a load interrupt switch for the console, rather than modding the console or a speech synth.

Great find! On Monterey, due to the lack of code signing, I also had to do: sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ooeygui (where ooeygui is the path to the directory where ooeygui lives)

Thanks, @jedimatt42 - I tested and am getting 4.8V between the center pin of the switch and ground on the edge connector. I thought there may be something wrong with the USB connector as the cable doesn't seem to be able to plug in all the way and seems loose, but I get a steady voltage, so while the loose fitting cable is concerning, that doesn't appear to be the issue. Anything beyond a basic multimeter is going to exceed my hardware skills, so I think this is beyond my capabilities to diagnose. I was hoping it was something I was doing wrong. I purchased it from @arcadeshopper and it was tested before it was shipped, but now that we seem to have ruled out user error, this does seem to be a hardware defect from what I can tell.

Ultimately, I want to have Console > Speech > TIPI > SAMS. For these tests, I omitted the Speech synch, so it was Console > TIPI > SAMS. SAMS ends the chain because there is no edge connector to continue beyond that. Photos attached of TIPI (with mem disabled jumper, USB mouse, USB power, shutdown/reboot switch, and disk activity LED), and SAMS (with power switch set to ext.)

The switch is set to ext. I am wondering if the SAMS USB power isn't working. The connector feels loose and I have tried multiple cables. Is the light supposed to light up if I just plug in the USB power without having it connected to the sideport? Right now, it isn't lighting up. Sorry, my bad on the CALL TIPI test - that was with both connected. The initial 32K passes the memory check with both connected, it's the next banks that fail. I have only the rear jumper set for mem disable. I don't have the first crubase jumper set (using 1000 which is what I had before.) Does 1000 crubase conflict with the SAMS?

I'm having issues trying to use the sidecar TIPI/32K along with a sidecar SAMS. First, I tried the SAMS as the only thing connected to the console, with the SAMS powered via its USB connector. A memory test passes for all pages. Then I disabled the 32K on the TIPI via the jumper, which I verified by connecting only the TIPI to the console, running a memory test, and it confirmed that the 32K expansion was not present. The TIPI is powered via its USB connector. I also verified that the TIPI was working via CALL TIPI. Then I connected both the TIPI and the SAMS, both powered independently via their USB connectors, and the memory test fails every time on the second set of pages. Any idea why this is happening? How are they conflicting with each other?

Thanks!

Thank you so much! Force Command is awesome.

Feature request: I have a newly installed F18A, and sometimes programs that take advantage of its extended features leave the color palette messed up, and the usual soft reset doesn't reset the extended F18A registers. Could Force Command reset the F18A if it detects it is present at startup? There is some sample code in this thread.

One caution on attaching the din connector directly to the motherboard is that at least for me, the case blocked the bottom of the port. I put a small nut under the connector to raise it up a bit. I did my best attempt at soldering the nut to the board but the solder didn’t want to stick to it. So I put a bunch of solder on the connector and then hot glued the whole thing. Still worried it will break off at some point though.

It's a tight squeeze, but it fits. I wrapped that part of the cable in electrical tape to protect it against the edges.