+Vorticon Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 There's no easy way for the floppies to be updated at this point by ColecoMaster, I wrote all the original disks and mailed them. But, it's a diskette, if you were actually going to play from it, you can update it yourself, or I guess send it to me to update (I'm just going to remove the write protect tab, update the files, and replace the tab ). I'd be inclined to PLAY from another source and just keep the box as a collector's thing, but if it's bugging anyone, we can work out me doing the update for you. mrchin.zip I'll make sure to update the Gameshelf version. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 I got my boxed copy yesterday, and it looks great! My only petty complaint is that the box is much smaller than the original TI software boxes. This kind of collector packaging should really be made available for many of the more recent releases like Pitfall, Mad Marvin's Great Escape, Titanium, TI Scramble and Road Hunter. Imagine having a shelf full of such boxed gems! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 I got my boxed copy yesterday, and it looks great! My only petty complaint is that the box is much smaller than the original TI software boxes. This kind of collector packaging should really be made available for many of the more recent releases like Pitfall, Mad Marvin's Great Escape, Titanium, TI Scramble and Road Hunter. Imagine having a shelf full of such boxed gems! Lucky. I am still awaiting mine so I can molest the disk with the updated version which fixed the screen blanking problem 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 I'm still patiently waiting for mine to show up as well. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 I'd love to see a good scan of the manual in PDF format... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 I received my copy as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 I received my copy as well. HA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 There's no easy way for the floppies to be updated at this point by ColecoMaster, I wrote all the original disks and mailed them. But, it's a diskette, if you were actually going to play from it, you can update it yourself, or I guess send it to me to update (I'm just going to remove the write protect tab, update the files, and replace the tab ). I'd be inclined to PLAY from another source and just keep the box as a collector's thing, but if it's bugging anyone, we can work out me doing the update for you. mrchin.zip your ubergrom cart image version of mr chin has the bug Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted August 25, 2014 Author Share Posted August 25, 2014 your ubergrom cart image version of mr chin has the bug Greg Thanks, but I don't intend to update that. it existed only for demonstration at the Chicago TI Faire, and you have it only because the beta firmware was leaked and people needed a proof of concept to test it with. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digress Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 How much trouble was this to do seeing as I have everything already programmed to work in sdcc. If it was only a few days to convert it to gcc it might be worth doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 It wasn't too large an issue, since I was able to quickly re-write the Coleco library functions that I needed for the TI. The biggest difference is interrupt handling - since it's an NMI on the Coleco it ALWAYS fires, while on the TI you need to enable interrupts. (Technically you could probably leave them enabled, but I didn't do that since I didn't want to deal with timing differences. I enabled interrupts explicitly when it was safe. ) After Mr Chin I went to my own libs. The other thing that helped was that Mr Chin fit in the TI's available 24k of memory -- if you need more than that it gets complicated because the cartridge banking on the TI works very differently than the Coleco (there's only 8k of space total, and it ALL pages. Of course you can copy to CPU memory for the fixed bank, but it's still a big difference to port around.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digress Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 aww that sucks. it has 24kb of memory. so it sounds like. I would put 16kb in memory , then bank switch 8kb at a time for additional functions etc. Might be possible. anyways it's not as straight forward as I was hoping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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