+OLD CS1 Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Hi, here you can find a list of >300 books, manuals and tech docs 768 is a lot of books! 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-3920156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 768 is a lot of books! Giggles Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-3920377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 I have taken some comments over time about the forums, posts, and missing information on guidelines. I have put together a good bit of information on how the forums run, why we have two forums, and how to quickly get to the one which interests you most (notice the new sub-host for development!) Greg kindly added it to the first post of the thread. I am hoping this addresses some of the concerns which have been posed to me as well as some of the feedback I have received. If anyone has any additional concerns please drop me a message. 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-3921791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 wow, this has become a massive informational thread :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-3922984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 23, 2018 Author Share Posted May 23, 2018 updated information on F18a availability and how to contact him to get on the "list" of interested people Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4033215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjh76 Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 First post should be updated to include TIPI Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4045265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 It will be Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4046160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iKarith Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 This is a work in progress.. will be happy to add anything missing - Greg [..] Keyboard issuesThe keyboard is connected directly to the TI motherboard with a pin connector. This can become loose/dirty and may need cleaning/reseating. There is no logic within the keyboard is is merely shorting the keyboard lines when you hit the keys. Alpha Lock issue: With the alpha lock key on you are unable to use the up direction with the joysticks. Release alpha lock to play games OR do this fix: http://mainbyte.com/ti99/console/alpha_lock.html What keyboard do I have? There were at least 5 manufacturers of keyboards for the 99/4a. http://mainbyte.com/ti99/keyboard/keyboard.html has good pictures/info/schematic.Mitsumi: These keyboards do not have any solder points except for the alpha-lock key connection and the ribbon cable. These keyboards have a membrane under the keys that tends to go bad with age and can sometimes be revived by separating the layers (CAREFULLY) Alps and others: These keyboards have solder points on the back of the PCBoard these keyboards sometimes have dirt/corrosion in the switches that can be cleaned with contact cleaner or alcohol. Thought in case nobody had looked recently I should note the Mitsumi keyboard picture link is presently broken so that it may be addressed in a future update. This is really a very cool post Greg, since I've not said so before. When I got into the TI, I wish this had been there. Now it is. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4048715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted June 14, 2018 Author Share Posted June 14, 2018 updated today: fixed mitsumi keyboard image added sections for TIPI now that it is in the wild updated transferring files section to be ultra clear what a flashrom99 and finalgrom99 both do. added replacement keyboard cable info 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4048982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted August 16, 2018 Author Share Posted August 16, 2018 updated tipi peb info and fixed a description Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4092338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TI99_IN_TX Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 any way to access these cassette files? how do i get the username password etc.... Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4140933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 any way to access these cassette files? how do i get the username password etc.... use HTTP://ftp.whtech.com OR if your browser is stupid and insists, the password is blank.. username is anonymous updated the link in the FAQ to be http:// Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4141041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 updated ftp.whtech.com entry with the login information and http link updated us meetings with this years info updated uk meetings with new info Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4153058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 No listing of my card the WHSCSI card (Western Horizon SCSI card) why? Handles 7 SCSI drives and with a HP SCSI port splitter box could handle 6 more SCSI drives for a total of 13 SCSI drives. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4192668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 No listing of my card the WHSCSI card (Western Horizon SCSI card) why? Handles 7 SCSI drives and with a HP SCSI port splitter box could handle 6 more SCSI drives for a total of 13 SCSI drives. Probably because I don't have any of that info.. will add it, is there a page with tech info? 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4192694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Well I have quite a few disks sent to me for the SCSI cards. This ZIP has even the source code for reading and writing to SCSI CD. Sadly my SCSI CD drives are wrong make and model so did not work well, it would read a little but also garbled. So I think the SCSI CD Drive has to be optimized for that driver. Anyway this ZIP file has the latest files on SCSI and even works on the HFDC card if you have one. SCSI.zip 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4192804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FDOS Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 I probably have every diskette issued for the WHT SCSI card, as I have 3 (2 x "F" and one "G" which is most similar to the SNUG ASCSI). I also had one of the original WHT SCSI cards, but during the development it went belly up and Don O'Neil replaced it with an "E" which was later upgraded to an "F". Bill 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4193319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suberbanator Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 this may have been asked before ti disk controller has 2 eproms hi and low was this because of memory costs at the time or what ? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4248847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 TI had a thing for 4K EPROMs, as they were about the most common high-capacity chips out there when they started design work on the 99/4. That attachment continued pretty much all through the design life of the system, although they were using 8K chips pretty regularly in their prototypes towards the end. . . Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4248901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Just a suggestion....but I would recommend editing the text so that you have proper naming conventions. For example: Quote ROM cartridge boards are available from 8k to 2mb Everyone more than likely knows that "8k" means 8 kiloBYTES. But 2mb could be confused for bits. As in 256 KiB. So things like: Quote ROM cartridge boards are available from 8 KiB to 2 MiB would look really professional, IMHO. I'm not a grammar nerd by means...but (there's always a "but"), this FAQ is good enough for print and it would be nice to see some polishing touches. I can re-type and clean up if anyone is interested. Anyway...thanks for doing this! I come here all the time looking for new "official" happenings with the TI community. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4377574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 30 minutes ago, cbmeeks said: ust a suggestion....but I would recommend editing the text so that you have proper naming conventions. Agreed. 30 minutes ago, cbmeeks said: Everyone more than likely knows that "8k" means 8 kiloBYTES. But 2mb could be confused for bits. As in 256 KiB. Correct, except that “m” means “milli”, not “mega”—a considerable difference. “M” really is required if “mega” is intended. Also—as you sort of implied, “Ki” is proper to rescue the convention that the “kilo” in “kilobytes” means 210 (1024) rather than the now conventional (standard) 103 (1000). And, to be clear, “KiB” reads “kibibytes”, the “bi” standing for “binary” to clarify the binary basis of the binary “thousand” (1024) we all know and love. ...lee 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4377610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 5 minutes ago, Lee Stewart said: Correct, except that “m” means “milli”, not “mega”—a considerable difference. “M” really is required if “mega” is intended....lee DUR! Yeah, I knew that...just a typo. Maybe I'm not the man for the job! LOL And yes, I've started using the "correct" convention of KiB, MiB, etc. (notice the "i"). I know the pain of thinking you bought a 512 MiB drive only to find out you had MUCH less after formatted. ? 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4377615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 I seem to remember it was the IBM guys who suddenly sold 535 MB drives for the same price as the other sold 512M. However, they just switched from 1024 to 1000. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4377700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Yeah—I also remember, back in the mid-seventies, when some microcomputer manufacturers started calling 64 KiB RAM 65 K. ...lee 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4377888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 As a side note, for Cadd Electronics, the URL listed on the first page is cadd99.com - that doesn't work. The new address is: https://caddelectronics.com/ and includes online ordering and info about cadds new hardware offering. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/267055-new-to-the-group-ti-994a-faq-hardware-and-software-resources-read-first/page/2/#findComment-4604611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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