Jon, even better than that: In your default (power up) bank, place cartridge headers for all 7 carts in the cart, then you will get a menu from the TI's menu...
What might also be interesting/useful is to write a power-up routine and put in each bank (I think cartridge ROMs can have a power-up routine - someone else...
Hi TI friends, so I had a bit of free time today and wanted to try something different. Besides programming games, I also like to collect them. As a collector,...
Yes of course... What looked like 2 foreground colors (blue and black) is actually a background and a foreground for that particular character byte. I've...
Okay, so my previous post focused on the possibilities available to me for Mac-TI data transfer. Several things came to light that led me to believe that...
You bet. Check to see if you have HyperTerm on the PC by clicking on Programs, then going to the Accessories\Communication folder. If you do, then you can...
Thanks, Ernie, for once again helping me out. As soon as I get a new RAM card in the PC desktop, I'll begin. I just have to try to find a straight through...
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Owen, Here are some suitable 360K DSDD 5.25" floppy drives: http://www.recycledgoods.com/item/8394.aspx Not real cheap, but will meet all your requirements. ...
... run a strait through db25 to Is it male or female? If it's female it's a parallel port. Most PCs have a DB9 male for a serial port. Only real old ones had...
Is it male or female? If it's female it's a parallel port. Most PCs have a DB9 male for a serial port. Only real old ones had 25 pins. It's female. It also...
... The 25-pin port is likely parallel, the two 9 pin ports are likely serial. ... This is kind of an open question, unless you covered it earlier (my ...
All pc rs232 ports are male. Those are 9pin serial ports. Femaile 9->25 adaptor straight through 25pin cable to a male connector for the TI and your in...
A male D-subminiature connector has the little pins, the female connector has the holes for the little pins to fit into. 15 pin female connectors are used for...
... use by the mid 90's, even though most external modems continued to use a 25 pin female connector. Thanks man. It looks like a 9 pin serial cable with a...
... Sounds very interesting! XB is a good place to learn! The main thing to keep in mind there will be performance limitations, you won't get blistering fast...
... Thanks! Tell you what... I've been looking into 2 games in particular. One is called "Goblins" and one is called "Legends II". I'm sure you know them...
Owen, Some of the basics of integrating assembly routines with an XB program are explained in a series of articles by Barry Traver in the TI-99 magazine ...
Owen, I use a MacBook to move files to my TI. I run Windows XP in Parallels but you could use bootcamp to run it. I use a USB serial adapter, a straight thru...
... Thanks, Jacques. I read your paper on file transferring. Very good stuff, my man. It should be a "MUST-READ" on this forum... =) I'm looking into...
Hi, I need to allocate space in VDP RAM and found this routine: BLWP @GPLLNK DATA >0038 But it is said that this call shouldn't be used outside TI BASIC ...
... Yeah, there are a number of reasons why Assembler is faster than BASIC - the interpretation is the biggest reason. With assembly, you are directly...
... I've done a fair bit of c99, though I'd have to dig up memories. It's a very capable compiler, with only two limitations that I came across, really. The...
... Thanks for the advice... I believe I have a copy of C99 on a disk... perhaps its just a manual or something, but I actually have 3 disks. One says "C99...
In summary, if you have a computer you want to hook to the 99/4A serial port, what you want is an RS232C modem cable for said computer. The standard RS232C...
Never bought from them, but Tex*In Treasures seems to sell the complete E/A package new for $35. Website is www.texintreasures.com Of course, you might find...
... Most can/will be moved by a garbage collection. You could, for example, use an array of string. But you'd have to find it each time in the symbol table,...
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