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39805
... keep ... Maximem ... hot ... good, ... Are your 64k chips in place of the old 16k dynamic ram chips or are they in a cartridge or expansion card? My 16k of...
biller1952
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Dec 1, 2005
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39806
As an added complication, don't you also have to do debouncing of the key contacts in software? Maybe the KSCAN routine is not looking quite so slow after all?...
Stuart Conner
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Dec 1, 2005
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39807
... switching ... Why have you replaced the RAM for the Video chip? Since the 9929 (well, 9918A in your case) handles dynamic RAM by itself, then what was the...
Anders Persson
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Dec 1, 2005
2:51 pm
39808
... Probably. I think I remember (without checking now) that there's some hardware filtering involved, but I assume software debouncing may be necessary...
Anders Persson
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Dec 1, 2005
2:53 pm
39809
Not knowing what the utility is and/or how widely it would be used, if you have the space at all, you should go for the full 40 bytes. Otherwise, there will...
Miller, Beery W.
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Dec 1, 2005
3:23 pm
39810
I love those IBM keyboards, the only thing that hangs me up is the backslash being next to the shift, I hit that by mistake all the time :) Dan...
Dan Olson
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Dec 1, 2005
3:58 pm
39811
I don't think so. There was a great push when the market was flooded with surplus TI parts to swap to the cooler running power supply. It may have been Radio...
James M. Postle, Sr.
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Dec 1, 2005
4:06 pm
39812
Here's the routine from ZT4. It's very fast already but looking at it again now, I think it could be made even faster with a little tweaking. Might give you...
Jeff Brown
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Dec 1, 2005
4:20 pm
39813
Nicely done!!! Good photos and good info. Thanks! Bill ... 30minutes... <snip>...
computerclassics2000
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Dec 1, 2005
4:49 pm
39814
That's fixed easily enough by sampling the keyboard on a timer... Buffer the keys up until the application needs them. That way the application can be doing...
Jeff Brown
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Dec 1, 2005
4:52 pm
39815
Bill, That means I won't be able to provide any direct (face to face) help getting your Geneve back in service. :( Most of us with expanded systems have had to...
Sullivan, Bill
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Dec 1, 2005
4:55 pm
39816
... to ... course ... pretty ... are ... chip ... what ... not ... Installation ... the ... I would have liked to have performed your mod but there were no...
biller1952
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Dec 1, 2005
7:05 pm
39817
Well, after checking my spreadsheet on VDP usage, I may have the space for 64 bytes per PAB. Which would be 54 bytes for pathnames, more than enough to satisfy...
Adam Haase
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Dec 1, 2005
7:10 pm
39818
... remember ... Yes, Radio Shack had those supplies. But I went step further and replaced the 16k of video ram with Hitachi static ram....
biller1952
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Dec 1, 2005
7:31 pm
39819
Adam, There's no point in going over the 40 bytes for full pathname (devicename+sub-directory, sub-directory, etc.+filename) as the Myarc HFDC architecture...
Sullivan, Bill
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Dec 1, 2005
7:39 pm
39820
I'll keep that in mind. I don't want to burn data space to store precise address locations for the PAB's, so I was going to just space them equally apart in...
Adam Haase
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Dec 1, 2005
8:15 pm
39821
I was wondering about that, is it possible that a new DSR could be made in the future that allows longer path/file names? The only parallel I can think of is...
Dan Olson
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Dec 1, 2005
9:37 pm
39822
... Is there a reason you are "maintaining" all of your PABS in VDP? Is it that much overhead for your application to move them out to VDP when needed, or are...
ti99_forever
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Dec 1, 2005
9:50 pm
39823
Dan, There's another problem. Just "modifying" the Geneve Master DSR won't solve the "problem". Any programs, past or present, TI or Geneve that accessed...
Miller, Beery W.
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Dec 1, 2005
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39824
Bill, You're sure there were such tapes? I can't find anything anywhere. But then, you wouldn't be asking if you didn't have something telling you that there...
Tom Wills
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Dec 1, 2005
11:14 pm
39825
Hi Tom, After I read the way I wrote the question, I realized that it could be interpreted as me asking for help to find the answer, instead of posing an...
computerclassics2000
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Dec 1, 2005
11:47 pm
39826
I'd rather that the PAB's stay in VDP, where they're immediately accessible, and I can load them via a hard-coded PAB as a memory image. Multiple files open at...
Adam Haase
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Dec 2, 2005
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39827
Update of November 6, 2005 The TI99ers On-Line User Group can be found at: http://www.ti99ers.org/ Included in the TI99ers On-Line User Group are the same...
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Dec 2, 2005
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39828
I may make it back up there some day. Making a cable ain't nothing. I don't know if I still have my Amiga RGB monitor which used with the 9640. The composite...
biller1952
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Dec 2, 2005
3:43 am
39829
One of the more useful features in Firefox is the built in search bar at the top right of the screen. While it is defaulted to search Google for any text you...
TI Los
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Dec 2, 2005
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39830
... wrote: <clip> ... When I had all the schematics and tech docs, I was fascinated by a page detailing a keyboard intended to be plugged into the joystick...
Gregg Eshelman
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Dec 2, 2005
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39831
... www.pckeyboard.com makes PS/2 and now USB keyboards using the exact same buckling spring mechanisim as IBM used in the 1980's. I suggested they make a...
Gregg Eshelman
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Dec 2, 2005
5:29 am
39832
Many thanks Jeff - Have saved the code and will have a good look at it! Great stuff ;-) Mark. http://www.natalie-merchant-online.com ... To help you stay safe...
mark wills
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Dec 2, 2005
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39833
Programming Aids I Programming Aids II Did I win the vette????? Ron ... could be ... not ... will ... anywhere. ... that ... product...
Ron Reuter
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Dec 2, 2005
2:10 pm
39834
Nice work, Ron! No Corvette, but you did find the right answer, and get to know 'the rest of the story' for your effort. Per the 1Q/1980 and 4Q/1980 Texas...
computerclassics2000
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Dec 2, 2005
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