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3 minutes ago, hloberg said:

that would be nice. I lost my CYC several years ago and been wanting to replace it but was hesitant ordering a new one as as they are so hard to get a hold of. 

The cyc is the only reason i was even considering an order with them. Wtih Classic99, JS99er and MESS, i think i've got enough emulators.

But the cyc could potentially add a missing piece or two to my software collection and TI99 paperwork collection.

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@jrhodes / @hloberg

 

 

Via ebay I am selling the original PC99 disks (from CADD Electronics) + update of the software and including CYC.

TI-99/4A Emulator CADD Electronics PC99 Suite + Cyc. + Disk + USB-Stick

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404521168415

 

 

Here is an example of Buck Rogers running in PC99W - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLmcLVDtAXg

 

Correct we have enough emulators already:

(in the past I used PC99W to compare between different emulators:  V9T9 DOS (Ed S), V9T9 Java (Ed S), Classic99 (Mike B),  JS99er (Rasmus M),  MESS/MAME (Michael Z), TI-99/Sim (Marc. R), Win99a (Cory B.) Ti994w (Fred K.) 

and other emulators making use of TI/SIM (like PSP99 and RetroPi-Raspberry) and MAME (Batocera and RetroBat)

 

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14 hours ago, globeron said:

@jrhodes / @hloberg

 

 

Via ebay I am selling the original PC99 disks (from CADD Electronics) + update of the software and including CYC.

TI-99/4A Emulator CADD Electronics PC99 Suite + Cyc. + Disk + USB-Stick

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404521168415

 

Daag shipping is big bucks (from Thailand, apparently)

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On 10/2/2023 at 3:14 AM, unhuman said:

Daag shipping is big bucks (from Thailand, apparently)

Correct,  Thailand Post does not allow electronic equipment (computers they refused),  1x little box with 32K chips the manager had to approve it.....not sure about disks.

 

So far DHL is doing an excellent job and receivers are happy  (here are the prices - https://forums.atariage.com/topic/215689-ti-related-ebay-heads-up-notice/?do=findComment&comment=5323772

Zone 3 is for EU and USA.    The enveloppe they only allow documents,  so I am stuck with minimal USD 64 shipment costs ...  (THB 2310).

 

I can try to send it via Thailand post. 

 

 

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Got a question about the DOS version of PC99 which comes with the CADD suite.

 

I've heard someone say they could use Myarc Extended Basic with it, but, I couldn't make the thing accept the configuration for the Myarc 512 memory thing.  My DOSBox-X has 16 Megs, so that shouldn't be a problem.  Something about the rom image it didn't like.

 

Also, I saw a debugger command DV which is supposed to dump video memory to screen, but, the program sjust beeps like I entered an invalid command.

 

Was this something Mike wanted to implement and never got around to it?

 

Also, there are references to changing speech quality.  What would it matter even if you had those experimental algorithms that TI didn't release, if you got absolutely no speech?  PC99DOS emulates speech, in that a program which uses speech will think it is successful, but, there's no output whatsoever.  Was this something he also planned to do in the future.

 

The Windows version of PC99 does speak, in a manner, but, MAME, CLASSIC99 and even JS99er.net I believe have it beat.

 

Please understand, though.  I am finding both PC99 DOS and PC99W to be useful for certain things.  And, the value of the CYC alone may be inestimable.  I really believe the suite , and particularly the CYC, itself can definitely be described as a labor of love, and, I in no way mean any disrespect for Mike and all his contributors.  I do think the CADD suite was worth every penny I paid for it.

 

In fact, the whole TI 99 community have done some great things, and, it's nice to see so much preserved, in spite of the time that has elapsed.

 

Anyway, thanks for any help or other suggestions.

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4 hours ago, jenorton said:

The Windows version of PC99 does speak, in a manner, but, MAME, CLASSIC99 and even JS99er.net I believe have it beat.

JS99er, and I think Classic99 as well, are using code converted from the MAME source. It's code that has required expert knowledge of the speech synth  to write, which I certainly don't possess. But I still remember how proud I was when I managed to get JS99er to say its first words (my children, in comparison, did it all by themselves). 🙂

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On 6/30/2023 at 11:58 PM, globeron said:

 

 

https://caddelectronics.com/cadd-pc99-suite-overview-and-installation/

Updated 20190222

 

(I guess I have the latest PC99 version running, see post above, but if someone has a newer version let me know)

 

 

 

 

Ok, I was able ordered it with my card, but it provided bad incomplete zip file that I downloaded.  I tried to unzip it and got end of central directory missing message.   I fixed it (zip -FF) but it looks like incomplete.  It was supposed to holds 2 GB contents, but it showed only first 512 MB contents before cutoff.  I tried to contact support, but I did not hear any word from them.

 

Also, it comes with FTP document.   I tried to log into FTP server with username and password, but I got bad login error. 

 

I did not receive my email message about that order when I ordered it. 

 

Tim

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3 hours ago, FSword7 said:

 

Ok, I was able ordered it with my card, but it provided bad incomplete zip file that I downloaded.  I tried to unzip it and got end of central directory missing message.   I fixed it (zip -FF) but it looks like incomplete.  It was supposed to holds 2 GB contents, but it showed only first 512 MB contents before cutoff.  I tried to contact support, but I did not hear any word from them.

 

Also, it comes with FTP document.   I tried to log into FTP server with username and password, but I got bad login error. 

 

I did not receive my email message about that order when I ordered it. 

 

Tim

Hi:

 

I think I have Suite from 06/11/2019 and Cyc from 8/4/2020.

 

Looks like the ftp site is not working, or maybe the credentials have changed.  I have probably the same ftp.pdf document.

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Just a heads-up, the FTP details were leaked, s.o it is not available.

 

You can contact Mike Wright with your problem at mjmw@comcast.net.

 

He always comes back to me.  Contacted him in May, and he got back to me in two hours.

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23 hours ago, pjduplooy said:

You can contact Mike Wright with your problem at mjmw@comcast.net.

 

He always comes back to me.  Contacted him in May, and he got back to me in two hours.

Unfortunately the FTP site isn't ran by Mike and the person who does run it isn't very responsive.  Definitely better to go directly to Mike.  That insures that you'll get the latest version of the Cyc, which is ever evolving.

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On 6/22/2024 at 10:25 PM, pjduplooy said:

Just a heads-up, the FTP details were leaked, s.o it is not available.

 

You can contact Mike Wright with your problem at mjmw@comcast.net.

 

He always comes back to me.  Contacted him in May, and he got back to me in two hours.

 

Yesterday I tried to contact Mike, but I did not hear any word from him.  I got corrupted cadd.zip (cutoff after 524,550,337 bytes). It was supposed to be least 2 GB contents.   

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14 hours ago, FSword7 said:

 

Yesterday I tried to contact Mike, but I did not hear any word from him.  I got corrupted cadd.zip (cutoff after 524,550,337 bytes). It was supposed to be least 2 GB contents.   

I think that the more recent one may be a little larger than that. 🙂 Give him a day or so and bump him again.

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14 hours ago, hloberg said:

ya know, I would order a new CYC & PC99 'if' I felt confident I would receive it. but from what I am hear recent I just don't have that confidence.

Go to Mike directly at his email, you'll receive it.

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On 6/24/2024 at 2:04 PM, airernie said:

Go to Mike directly at his email, you'll receive it.

Yeah. I finally got email from Mike on last Tuesday and he forwarded my email to Eric to fix it.  Then I got email from Eric next day.  I downloaded two (suite and cyc) zip files without any issue.  Total 4 GB contents. 

 

Thanks for your replies.  

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