Omega-TI Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I've always thought a good place for a RTC would be on the cable connector. Might as well have at least one item on the card right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meddler Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Why a cable? A sidecar box could contain modern miniature components and a hard drive. Only cable would be for external printer port connector etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornadoboy Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 (edited) How about eliminating the problem altogether by building a card to put the 994/a IN the PEB, kind of like the Geneve? I know there's a Geneve 2 supposedly still being worked on and at least one FPGA project, but I mean someone just taking the original 4a and condensing it onto a board, with maybe a few of the easier mods built in. Edited May 12, 2017 by Tornadoboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Why a cable? A sidecar box could contain modern miniature components and a hard drive. Only cable would be for external printer port connector etc. As a PEB interface card replacement, I would not really want a second box hanging off the side of the TI. A cable hopefully, hopefully the round twisted variety, would be less obtrusive. But sure, a SD card based SSHD would be nice integrated into a replacement for the old Flex card interface, after all if we are taking up a slot, might as well put it to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 How about eliminating the problem altogether by building a card to put the 994/a IN the PEB, kind of like the Geneve? I'm sure others might like that too, but for me, I'd miss my cartridge port and all the new hardware goodies for it... and I have too much nostalgia tied into the 4A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornadoboy Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I'm sure others might like that too, but for me, I'd miss my cartridge port and all the new hardware goodies for it... and I have too much nostalgia tied into the 4A. I wonder if there might be a way around that, like putting the cartridge port on the end of a short cable with a docking cradle-like plug that can be stuck on top of the box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 ... like putting the cartridge port on the end of a short cable with a docking cradle-like plug that can be stuck on top of the box? Anything is possible, but for me, at this point in my life I'm looking for less clutter and cables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Actually, SNUG pretty much did what you are suggesting here, @Tornadoboy. The TI was broken up into three pieces--a 9938-based graphics card, a 512K GRAM card, and a CPU card with built-in keyboard interface and 1M of SAMS memory. The only thing that disappears in this configuration is the cartridge port. I have a set of these cards, as do a few others here. They work great, although it is getting hard to find a set of them anymore. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 How about eliminating the problem altogether by building a card to put the 994/a IN the PEB, kind of like the Geneve? I know there's a Geneve 2 supposedly still being worked on and at least one FPGA project, but I mean someone just taking the original 4a and condensing it onto a board, with maybe a few of the easier mods built in. You mean like this one: http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/peb/sgcpu.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Actually, SNUG pretty much did what you are suggesting here, @Tornadoboy. The TI was broken up into three pieces--a 9938-based graphics card, a 512K GRAM card, and a CPU card with built-in keyboard interface and 1M of SAMS memory. The only thing that disappears in this configuration is the cartridge port. I have a set of these cards, as do a few others here. They work great, although it is getting hard to find a set of them anymore. . . Yeh, they came out after I pretty much put my stuff away, Wish I could get them today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 The SGCPU (aka TI-99/4P) is contained in MAME also. However, the gain is basically on the physical side, which is not visible in an emulation. Apart from that, you can feel the speed-up from its companion card HSGPL which emulates the GROMs. Also, the keyboard is not properly emulated (just pretending that it is the original TI-99 keyboard although it is actually an AT-style). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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