Opry99er Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Household Budget Management? Home Financial Decisions? Personal Real Estate? Personal Record Keeping? I need to cannibalize a few of my carts and I would hate to wipe out a cart with some redeeming quality... I am weird like that. I have multiples of the above carts. Which should be the first to go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I'd say most of us in this hobby have no use for a household "budget" program. Budget you say? ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I second Household Budget! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 OMG!!! Obviously it's not ZERO ZAP as referenced << HERE >>. I agree with the other guys, I'd dump the Household Budget Management cartridge as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 I've actually never seen the grey/red Zero Zap cart... Doesnt mean it is rare, but all 4 of my copies are orange on black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Indoor Soccer. Utter utter garbage. I'd like to meet the person that wrote that and kick them squarely in the plums. Actually it's the TI marketing department that should take a kick in the dangle berries. What were they thinking? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 How big was TI's developer staff (for entertainment, aka games)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 OMG!!! Obviously it's not ZERO ZAP Like, duh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 You admitted to owning four useless cartridges with some duplicates. Do you feel ashamed? 35 years ago, the carts probably had a few redeeming qualities and uses. Maybe. Let the cannibalization begin! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Some cartridges are so bad, you get the whole cartridge even when you think you are just purchasing empty shells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyerd Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I'm not familiar with Zero Zap and have never played it either. Am I really missing out on the best ever TI game and should I hunt it out on Classic 99 and start playing it?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 Zero Zap is FFVII, Morrowind, Galaga, MegaMan2, Super Mario Bros 3, and Parsec all rolled into one. Imagine if heaven were a video game... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 All the Zero Zap love really makes me want to do a remake... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RXB Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 HBM was a crappy Cart if you look at the GPL code it looks like someone wrote it on a weekend with some spare time and using a BYTE magazine Basic template. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernalKeith Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Speaking strictly from a supply-and-demand point of view... I spent a a few years semi-actively buying and selling gear on Ebay. I listed every variation of every cartridge, no matter how crappy, because SOMEone would eventually come along and buy one to complete their collection. From the sales data I have, in my own limited business, I can tell you that Household Budget Management and Home Financial Decisions tie for the most worthless. Some of the other utility and productivity carts, like Securities Analysis and Tax/Investment Record Keeping, are uncommon enough that people sometimes would pick them up as collection fillers, and I never accumulated dozens of them in the course of buying up systems. As for games, The Attack was the one I always ended up with WAY too many of. The good games (Parsec, Munchman, Hunt the Wumpus, etc) are very common, but still sell well because there are always new people finding TI's in the attic or at yard sales and looking for the games they loved as kids. I always had this pipe dream of doing a series of YouTube videos where I actually tried to use old TI productivity software in real life -- track my budget for a month, write a freelance assignment with TI Writer on a stock TI, go on a diet with Weight Control and Nutrition, etc. That might be fun, but I'll never have that kind of spare time. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 That is good info, and a very cool idea on the YouTube video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Most useless cart = extended basic XB 2.7 Suite renders the XB cart useless 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftyde Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Personal Record Keeping has my vote ... LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 definitely Editor-Assembler (after pulling the chips) RMSAAED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Most useless cart = extended basic XB 2.7 Suite renders the XB cart useless Maybe, but you shouldn't say that about Extended Basic. Not in this way! This is Extended Basic! I'll never forget the sensation of Power, once I plugged it in and played around with its features. This was so much faster, better, everything, than the plain console BASIC. Until I got Editor/Assembler... (OK, feelings of a 13 year old boy, long ago ... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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