I had the TI-99 Computer. Lovely tape loading at its finest.
There was an RPG game on there that kept me up all night back in the day,
what a classic.



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Re: Texas Instruments
By: Raistlin to All on Thu Oct 04 2007 02:47 pm

I had the TI-99 Computer. Lovely tape loading at its finest.
There was an RPG game on there that kept me up all night back in the day, what a classic.

The RPG game from the movie "big"?


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Re: Texas Instruments
By: Raistlin to All on Thu Oct 04 2007 02:47 pm

I had the TI-99 Computer. Lovely tape loading at its finest.
There was an RPG game on there that kept me up all night back in the day, what a classic.

I kick myself in the ass everytime I think of all the classic computers I used to have and discarded like a dumbass! Most of 'em I sold at garage sales. DAMN!! If you're interested, check out my classic computing page on my website: http://ralphsmole.com/classic.aspx

Peace :-)

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Re: Texas Instruments
By: Ralph Smole to Raistlin on Thu Oct 04 2007 07:05 pm

I kick myself in the ass everytime I think of all the classic computers I us to have and discarded like a dumbass! Most of 'em I sold at garage sales. DAMN!! If you're interested, check out my classic computing page on my websi

yeah, i actually had to format a few floppies [in emergencies] from good
games that i stopped playing. wish i still had them.

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Re: Texas Instruments
By: W8ZZU to Raistlin on Thu Oct 04 2007 07:39 pm

I had the TI-99 Computer. Lovely tape loading at its finest.
There was an RPG game on there that kept me up all night back in the day, what a classic.

The RPG game from the movie "big"?

No i remembered it, it was called TUNNELS OF DOOM!

Awesome, then of course I got a PC and got Bards Tale which is still fun to play today :)


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Re: Texas Instruments
By: Ralph Smole to Raistlin on Thu Oct 04 2007 07:05 pm

Re: Texas Instruments
By: Raistlin to All on Thu Oct 04 2007 02:47 pm

I had the TI-99 Computer. Lovely tape loading at its finest.
There was an RPG game on there that kept me up all night back in the day, what a classic.

I kick myself in the ass everytime I think of all the classic computers I us to have and discarded like a dumbass! Most of 'em I sold at garage sales. DAMN!! If you're interested, check out my classic computing page on my websi http://ralphsmole.com/classic.aspx

You know my Dad may still have that TI, i will have to ask him.
We got rid of all the old stuff before. We even had one of the first PONG games from wayyyy back in the day.



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Re: Texas Instruments
By: Raistlin to Ralph Smole on Fri Oct 05 2007 11:07 am

You know my Dad may still have that TI, i will have to ask him.
We got rid of all the old stuff before. We even had one of the first PONG games from wayyyy back in the day.

I still check out garage/yard sales for old computer stuff in the hope of finding something worthwhile to mess around with. I still have an old Pentium I machine(100 mhz) that I run DOS on to play the old games,etc..

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Ralph Smole <ralph.smole@vert/nimbus> wrote:

Re: Texas Instruments
By: Raistlin to All on Thu Oct 04 2007 02:47 pm

I had the TI-99 Computer. Lovely tape loading at its finest.
There was an RPG game on there that kept me up all night back in the day, what a classic.

I kick myself in the ass everytime I think of all the classic computers I used
to have and discarded like a dumbass! Most of 'em I sold at garage sales. DAMN!! If you're interested, check out my classic computing page on my website:
http://ralphsmole.com/classic.aspx

Peace :-)

You might want to put some stuff in uk.comp.vintage :) The Timex 1000
you have is what was known as the ZX81 in the UK. 1K and the 16K rampack
that had to be taped on. ?99 or ?49 if you wanted the kit so you could
put it together yourself.

There's a computer museum where you can actually touch the old machines,
they have them turned on and working on weekends.

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/AM11357.html

Wish I had known about it before I left for the US. A guy who volunteers
there posts on u.c.v I offered a HP700 that is sitting in my garage but
I don't think they wanted to pay the shipping.

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Raistlin <raistlin@vert/tohs> wrote:

I had the TI-99 Computer. Lovely tape loading at its finest.
There was an RPG game on there that kept me up all night back in the day, what a classic.

If you've not heard of the MESS project at http://www.mess.org/ then
it's worth a look. The Multiple Emulator Super System can emulate many different systems, including various versions of the TI-99. You can
probably find the games you used to like and play them on the emulator.
It works great for the BBC Micro.

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Re: Texas Instruments
By: Raistlin to W8ZZU on Fri Oct 05 2007 11:06 am

No i remembered it, it was called TUNNELS OF DOOM!

Awesome, then of course I got a PC and got Bards Tale which is still fun to play today :)

I have Bards Tale on PS2. I haven't played it much though.


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Re: Re: Texas Instruments
By: Nelgin to All on Fri Oct 05 2007 03:41 pm

If you've not heard of the MESS project at http://www.mess.org/ then
it's worth a look. The Multiple Emulator Super System can emulate many different systems, including various versions of the TI-99. You can
probably find the games you used to like and play them on the emulator.
It works great for the BBC Micro.

Does it use BIOS images? If so,where can they be downloaded?

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Re: Re: Texas Instruments
By: Nelgin to All on Fri Oct 05 2007 03:41 pm

If you've not heard of the MESS project at http://www.mess.org/ then
it's worth a look. The Multiple Emulator Super System can emulate many different systems, including various versions of the TI-99. You can probably find the games you used to like and play them on the emulator.
It works great for the BBC Micro.

Does it use BIOS images? If so,where can they be downloaded?

http://www.theoldcomputer.com


The following has the TI99/4A ROMS.

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/Emulation/BIOS_Roms/ti99rom.zip

See if those will do the trick.

If you really like to punish yourself, they have a ZX81 ROM too. ;)

For TI99/4A games, try the link below. They have BASIC, Extended BASIC
and compiled games also.

http://tigameshelf.net/

I've played with a lot of emulators and MESS is the best I've found for
several machine types. Let me know if you need help finding anything.

Oh, I've heard Cost Plus may have cockels, but I don't know if they have
them in DFW.

Regards
Nigel

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Ralph Smole <ralph.smole@vert/nimbus> wrote:

I still check out garage/yard sales for old computer stuff in the hope of finding something worthwhile to mess around with. I still have an old Pentium I
machine(100 mhz) that I run DOS on to play the old games,etc..

That reminds me, I have a system for Frank Vest. If you want an old P2 I
might have one knocking around. I've got a bunch of AMD processors that
have out lasted their motherboards, got about 4 dead boards right now
that I don't know what to do with.

Actually, one was my fault. I drove half way across Dallas to pick it
up, got home, wanted to put a new processor in it, popped the CPU fan
off, only after I put the screwdriver through the motherboard :(

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Re: Re: Texas Instruments
By: Nelgin to All on Sat Oct 06 2007 01:16 am

Oh, I've heard Cost Plus may have cockels, but I don't know if they have them in DFW.

THANKS! There's one not far from here in Lake Worth!

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