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From: ewb6720@pacs.pha.pa.us ( Eric W. Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: GK files
Summary: Graphics Conversions
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:39:59 GMT
Organization: Philadelphia Area Computer Society

In article <5Zk3VB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster) writes:



> 
> Take graphics stuff, it seems the streem goes only 1 way. Example: You 
> can convert form GIF to Myart but not the other way (on a TI). Why?
> Why not go from low res Myart back to TI-Artist? 
> 
> enough!
> 
On the Myarc Geneve 9640 you can convert G.I.F. to MYART to TI-ARTIST if
you have a one of two programs. 
  
1) PICTURE TRANSFER - By PAUL CHARLTON 

2) Y.A.P.P - (Yet Another Paint Program) - from ASGARD SOFTWARE

The Y.A.P.P. can also be used on a TI 99/4A if it has any of the devices
that allows the TMS9938 chip to be connected to the machine.
 
Therefore your graphics conversion can easily be handled.

The TMS9918 chip in the original TI 99/4A machine can't handle the high
resolution graphics!!!




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From: oneil@worf.arc.nasa.gov.arc.nasa.gov (Don O'Neil)
Subject: RE: 4a Memex 
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 15:21:23 PST
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In Message-ID:<1he3a8INNdkp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Robert D. Gilpin writes:


>Don, am I to beleive that the 4a-memex will be shipped with a Full C
>compiler?  If so, will it be a double pass compiler?   I am learning
>C on the TI with Clint's small c version.  It has a single pass compiler.

Robert, We have an agreement with Al Beard to port his FULL C for the Geneve
over to the 4a Memex. I am not full up on the implementation of his C so 
I cannot answer a whole lot of questions about it, maybe someone else?
It is my understanding though that it does all memory managing for you       
matically, and if you have a 9938 and source to Geneve programs, you should be'
able to re-compile them to run on the 4a. There will also be memory libraries 
for LGMA Fortran to make it compatible with the Geneve memory calls, and      
therefore you should be able to do the same.

>Will it come with an assembler also? 

That is unkown at this time, we will have a developers/software manual availble
that will show how to access memory from it in assembler, but I'd like to see
a full assembler for it myself. We are looking into the possiblity.

>Who is developing these things and when do you beleive the who 4a/Memex
>project to come to fruition?

The DSR (basic setup, initialization, memory manage) is being written by Jeff
White, the C and Fortran by Al Beard, and the hardware designed by myself and
Jeff White. I am currently finalizing revision 3 of the board, because of a
discontinued part last year, I had to re-design it, and now I'm jut finishing
up the second re-design (making it a lower cost/higher performace board). I
would guess that we will be starting a production run in the next couple of 
weeks, with production units assembled and ready to go by Fest West, but        
the DSR may not be done (most likely wont) by then. But, MDOS may be modified 
in that time frame to allow useage of the 4a memex on the Geneve as a memory
expansion card, that job is being done by Beery Miller. 

>If it really comes with a c compiler capable of using all of its memory without
>pain then I will definetly buy one!
>Does it also use RAMBO memory?  Is this an ongoing project with OPA?

It does not _use_ per say RAMBO memory, but it can emulate it, or expand the   
map of RAMBO memory beyond any setup on an HRD. We are not affiliated with OPA
and all our RAMBO efforts are co-ordinated with BMS. I hope you will enjoy
using the card for your programming.

Don.
From: Rice@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (James Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer
Subject: Re: Request for Assistance with Explorer
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:46:15 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet

>>  Warren Grable asked here:

>>       3) Does anyone know where I could get parts and
>>  repairs if I need them?
>>          (Does TI still support the Explorers?) 4) Does
>>       anyone know where I might be able to purchase an
>>       Explorer II
>>          system board, or the 68020 UNIX board for the
>>  Explorer?

>>  Call Esther Pace at United Computer Group:
>>  1-800-959-5509.  They are the ones who bought out TI's
>>  explorer operations.  Esther went from TI over to them
>>  and knows the Explorer line pretty well.

>>  Good luck.

>>  Mark David, mhd@gensym.com

If you keep your ear to the ground it's not uncommon that
you can get Explorer h/w for free (or at least for the
cost of shipping).  For example, our lab recently got
bequeathed a 32Mb colour Explorer II with 3 discs and a
tape (we had to pay to ship it up from La Jola).

Amongst other things it also came with an LX board, which
we certainly have no need of.  For all I know we would
part company with it for the shipping cost or something
nominal to keep Stanford's books happy.




Rice.
From: mhd@GENSYM.COM (Mark H David)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer
Subject: Re: Request for Assistance with Explorer
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:08:08 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet

Warren Grable asked here:

     3) Does anyone know where I could get parts and repairs if I need them?  
	(Does TI still support the Explorers?) 
     4) Does anyone know where I might be able to purchase an Explorer II
	system board, or the 68020 UNIX board for the Explorer?

Call Esther Pace at United Computer Group: 1-800-959-5509.  They are the
ones who bought out TI's explorer operations.  Esther went from TI over
to them and knows the Explorer line pretty well.

Good luck.

Mark David, mhd@gensym.com
From: rdg@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Gilpin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: How much for a loaded PEB?
Date: 25 Dec 1992 04:32:51 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


My friend is interested in buying a PEB.

She wants an Rs-232 card, 32K, floppy controller and a drive.

The drive is not really important, I have several I could give to her.
She does not need a double density capable controller.


So, what kind of quotes can I get here?

Is anyone willing to sell a Box cheap?


Thanks!
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Quotes.                           Robert Gilpin
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Uninteresting stuff.
From: rdg@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Gilpin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: 4a/Memex and Full C
Date: 25 Dec 1992 04:39:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


Don, am I to beleive that the 4a-memex will be shipped with a Full C
compiler?  If so, will it be a double pass compiler?   I am learning
C on the TI with Clint's small c version.  It has a single pass compiler.

Will it come with an assembler also?


Who is developing these things and when do you beleive the who 4a/Memex
project to come to fruition?


If it really comes with a c compiler capable of using all of its memory without
pain then I will definetly buy one!


Does it also use RAMBO memory?  Is this an ongoing project with OPA?


Well, thanks for any info.

Bye.
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Uninteresting stuff.                                                           
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie)
Subject: Re: SCSI & Accelerator
Followup-To: comp.sys.ti
Organization: An Ol Ag surrounded by a bunch of unfriendly Seminoles
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 03:48:06 GMT

In article <9212182106.AA02658@worf.arc.nasa.gov.arc.nasa.gov>,
oneil@worf.arc.nasa.gov.arc.nasa.gov (Don O'Neil) wrote:
> 
> In response to the response to SCSI & Accelerator:
> 
> >That makes an investment of about $250-$400 for a 20-52 MB of HD storage;
> >Since the speed of data retrieval is very high, wouldn't that put the RAMDisk
> >enterprise out of business?  Who ould need a 180K, 256K, or even 1 MB RAM Disk
> >with a 20 MB HD?
> 
> Truely, not many people would need the ram disk any longer, they are nearly
> equal in speed (with the SCSI possibly being a little bit faster) but SCSI can 
> be slower, if you use a older, slower drive, or faster if you use a newer 
> faster

Really? I would think that a ramdisk would be faster than the scsi! Are
you sure? I'm not being a smart ass, but I find it hard to believe that
a device who's speed is measured in nanoseconds will be slower than one
who's speed is measured in milliseconds - three orders of magnitude
difference.

Of course, there could be hardware bottlenecks that I'm unware of. But
both would (should?) have to face similar bottlenecks from the PEB to a
99/4a or Geneve.

FWIW, I'm an old Ti'er, but I got tired of Myache's problems and converted
over to Macintosh. SCSI is most definitely the way to go.

Which gives me a thought - any plans to support SCSI-2? That *would* be
overkill, tho. :)

James - I unloaded the Ti stuff awhile back
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie)
Subject: Re: SCSI CONTROLLER
Followup-To: comp.sys.ti
Organization: An Ol Ag surrounded by a bunch of unfriendly Seminoles
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:50:01 GMT

In article <Lq36VB4w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
(Andrew webster) wrote:

>        I read a lot about SCSI 2 and so on. What version of HD will the 
> new SCSI controller work with? If I want to buy a SCSI hard drive do I 
> have to watch that it is SCSI 1 or 2 or what.??? 

SCSI 1. v2 provides for higher data transfer rates over a wider bus
and other tricks that elude me at the moment. It used to be v1 was
faster than most computers, but that's not true anymore. v1 should
be sufficient for any Ti/Geneve.

>     Detail a guide that I can go by to buy the proper SCSI HD for my up 
> and comming SCSI TI controller.

From what I understand, *any* generic scsi device should work - mac
or amiga drives.

> ps... I thought SCSI was a standard set by the ANSI people. Why is there 
> newer versions like 2 and 3???

Computers have caught up with fast scsi 1 devices, and now there's a need
for *faster* scsi transfer. Hence the new standard. 

James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: interesting info from Freenet
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:08:07 GMT

The following is from freenet.  If anybody has got more details,
please let me know.
=============================================================================
Reply-To: aa726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Deanna Sheridan)
The Asgard 128K card is a new card for
the PEB Box with additional ram available
for programmers.  There have been several
of these promised for the TI World, but
I believe this is the first one to actually
come to market.  It uses bank switching in
ram to allow us to run programs of larger size.

There is already a program available that
takes advantage of this card.  It is called
"First Draft - Final Copy" the first complete
rewrite of the TI Word processing program.

First Draft is an extention of a program
written about a year and a half ago by
one Art Gibson in Tennessee which was
created to help newsletter editors print
professional looking newsletters.  The new
program takes advantage of the best features
of the TI world processor and adds some
additional ones.  For the first time, TI-ers
can use a spell checker from within the
word processing environment.

Look for an exensive review of this program
in the January user groups' newsletter.

(Note- I do not think that she owns the card and software.  I would be
interested in more details).

Article 908 of freenet.sci.comp.ti.general:
From: aa726@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Deanna Sheridan)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)

Ken Gladyszewski of the NorthCoast group had
developed a project that certainly was not
meant for commercial purposes, but is a lot
of fun.  He has an analog-digital converter and
a setup to run a robot complete with speech.
He has developed a board that attaches to the
parallel printer port that can be used for
several purposes.  One person asked if he
could control his Christmas lights with them
and Ken said he could.

(Note- I have schematics and article on the costructions of such an interface
using the joystick and parallel ports.  With the joystick version one does not
even need the PEBox.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: TI3000 sx help help help!
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 17:46:08 GMT

It's christmas, and I finally got a color monitor for my notebook.

And, I finally realize, the drivers that came with it are ancient ones--
for Win/386!  

These do not work under Windows 3.1.  Can anyone point me to an ftp
site or email me drivers--highres, more colors, the whole batch--
for my TI Travelmate 3000 (sx-20)...?
 
I would be grateful.  As it stands, I'm stuck with either 640x480 (16)
or 800x600 (16, interlaced).....

---

On a related thread--how difficult is it to add a larger internal HD 
yourself (that is, replace the current [40mb] internal...)?


-- 
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     Equality is a delusion, suffering is a fairy tale and God is a fantasy.
       Blaming society for inequality is like blaming the sky for rain.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Wanted and for trade
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:11:06 GMT

I am looking for the following cartridges- and possibly other items.
I have a lot of extra TI-99/4A stuff myself that is looking for a home,
so in case you want to trade please ask for a list.  I will also buy if the
prices are reasonable, but I prefer trades.

                                                    JOSEPH COHEN, (804) 293-8973

Cartridges wanted (November 30, 1992)-
Word invasion
Word Radar
Numeration I
Scholastic Spelling level 4
Computer Math Games I
Computer Math Games III
Computer Math Games IV
Addition (PHM 3090,Milliken Math Sequences)
Percents (PHM 3097,Milliken Math Sequences)
Fractional Numbers (Milliken Math Sequences)
Addition and Subtraction 3 (Scott, Foresman)
Multiplication 2 (Scott, Foresman)
Decimals I (Scott, Foresman)
Scott, Foresman School Management Applications package (or any part thereof).
Fractions I (Scott, Foresman)
Number Bowling
Picture Parts
Pyramid Puzzler
Frog Jump
Reading Adventures
Reading Power
Reading Rainbows
Reading Trail
Reading Wonders
Star Maze
Demonstration (PHM 3001)
Speech Editor
Terminal Emulator I
Diagnostic module
E.T.
SMU Electrical Engineering Library
Key to Spanish
Mini Writer cartridge
Princess and the Frog
ALL Asgard cartridges (Mancala, TypeWriter, Tris, Link, etc.)
ALL DataBiotics cartridges (Black Hole, Miniwriter III, Star Runner,
                            etc.)
Ant Eater (Romox)
Hen Pecked (Romox)
Princess and the Frog (Romox)
Rotor Raiders (Romox)
Topper (Romox)
Typo II (Romox)
Whiz Kid (Romox)
Ant Colony (Funware)
Astroblitz (Funware)
Cave Creatures (Funware)
Crisis Mountain (Funware)
Galactic Barrier (Funware)
Henhouse (Funware)
Pipes (Funware)
Trashman (Funware)
Video Vegas (Funware)
Frogger (Parker Brothers)
Navarone Homework Helper (/Plus)
Navarone Console Writer
Super Space, SuperSpace II, or SuperCart (8K or/and 32K RAM)
Myarc Extended BASIC II/IV system

Other items of interest- Third party hardware and peripherals such as Texas
Light Shooter from Non-Plyoptics, Light Pen with software,
any 80-column device for the TI-99/4A, HFDC, European and Australian products
and whatever...  (I realize this will not generate much of a response, but who
knows!  Perhaps somebody, somewhere, will be interested!).

A Happy New Year to all 99'ers!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: GK files
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 00:15:43 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

- You are mistaken, PICTURE TRANSFER allows you to
- convert to G.I.F.!
- 
- The command for picture transfer is (GSAVE DSKx.(filename))
- All you have to do is load in any of the three formats into PICTURE
- TRANSFER and then save it out as a G.I.F. file. Of course you need a
- MYARC GENEVE 9640 in order to use this very nice program.
________________________________________

I know this. But I was refering to the 4/A. There are many one way 
streets in the graphics world of the 4/A. Its too bad and its also 
frustrating.

Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: SCSI CONTROLLER
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:38:20 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Don,
       One more question:
       I read a lot about SCSI 2 and so on. What version of HD will the 
new SCSI controller work with? If I want to buy a SCSI hard drive do I 
have to watch that it is SCSI 1 or 2 or what.??? 
    Detail a guide that I can go by to buy the proper SCSI HD for my up 
and comming SCSI TI controller.

ps... I thought SCSI was a standard set by the ANSI people. Why is there 
newer versions like 2 and 3???

Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: GK files
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 12:25:43 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

ewb6720@pacs.pha.pa.us ( Eric W. Bray) writes:

- In article <5Zk3VB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (
- 
- 
- 
- > 
- > Take graphics stuff, it seems the streem goes only 1 way. Example: You 
- > can convert form GIF to Myart but not the other way (on a TI). Why?
- > Why not go from low res Myart back to TI-Artist? 
- > 
- > enough!
- > 
- On the Myarc Geneve 9640 you can convert G.I.F. to MYART to TI-ARTIST if
- you have a one of two programs. 
-   
- 1) PICTURE TRANSFER - By PAUL CHARLTON 
- 
- 2) Y.A.P.P - (Yet Another Paint Program) - from ASGARD SOFTWARE
- 
- The Y.A.P.P. can also be used on a TI 99/4A if it has any of the devices
- that allows the TMS9938 chip to be connected to the machine.
-  
- Therefore your graphics conversion can easily be handled.
- 
- The TMS9918 chip in the original TI 99/4A machine can't handle the high
- resolution graphics!!!
- 
- 
- 
- 
- -- 
- ===================================================================
- | "EXPERIENCE is a hard teacher; she gives the examination first, |
- | and the lesson afterwards!" - Emerson (Eric W. Bray @ PACS)     |
- ===================================================================



Yes, but you cant convert back to GIF. To me a drawback. 


Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: tstark@access.digex.com (Timothy M. Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: GRAM simulator
Date: 22 Dec 1992 01:29:36 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

Hello Everyone:

     Ok. I have GPL manual here because I download them from GEnie last year
and print them to my printer (Citizen GSX-140). I did print a few "roff"
file from TI Writer that I bought in this early year to my new printer with
out any problems. My Citizen printer understands Gemini 10X ESC
sequences so well. Are you interested in that? If so, I will upload them to
this internet but I have them on Amiga with high speed modem (9600 bps).

     I develop the DOS routines for TI-99/4A on my Amiga. I extract 
files from TIFILE format on it successfully. Also I wrote small compress
routines to uncompress ark files on Amiga with out any problems. They
still are under development. I am merging them into the one program.

     In the future, I plan to develop TI-99/4A/Geneve emulators on my
Amiga after I develop TIDOS routines with roff functions (TI Writer)
for printers. When I buy my new IBM PC, I will port them to Unix and
PC.

     In the past, I wrote assembly language programs on my TI-99/4A. That
was piece of cake. It was too easy for me to write. :) I wrote my own
"operating system" in Mini Memory for program modules. They worked so
great. When I write entire assembly language program, it will take
three days. :)

      Do anyone know about that? Do you have any expierence about that?
I am looking for complete TI-99/4A emulator since I heard that from Germany.
Someone wrote it for IBM PC but I have it. Are you interested in that?
I will upload that to this Internet.

      I have similar project but that is for Unix and Amiga.

-- Tim Stark


     

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From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Bug with Epson printers?  Help please
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:15:49 GMT

I have a problem that consumed a few hours these last days.  Anybody willing
to help resolve it?

Using TI-Writer, I was trying to put the  '  sign above a letter like is
found in some names of Latin origin (e.g., e' or o' etc.).  it did that from
TI-Writer using transliteration, namely, I defined the character   }  to
stand for "print one backspace (to go back to the letter e or o or whatever),
then print the  '  ".
This worked fine with the usual roman character set, either draft or NLQ.
But when I tried to combine this with ITALICS, the  '  was misplaced at random
locations in the printout.  In this case, there is a transliteration command
earlier in the text (prior to the }  mentioned above) to turn on Italics.

Anybody who got an Epson printer (FX, LX, LQ series)-  could you please try this
and let me know whether I am dreaming or there is a bug in the Epson printers?

Anybody who got a non-Epson printer, could you try this and let me know what
are the results and which type of printer you are using?

Remember, the problem occurs when the  accented letter (e', o' etc.) is being
printed out in the Italics character set mode.  If possible, try it both with
draft and NLQ (or LQ if you have that).

Thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: parry@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Lisa Parry)
Subject: TIGA installation drivers
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:33:17 GMT

I have recently acquired a TIGA Card but I don't have the drivers to get
it up to full capability.  Could anyone point me to an ftp site or
some other source where I could find them?  I'm installing it into a
486DX machine with SVGA screen.  Thanks so much.  Email is preferred.

Lisa Parry
parry@andrews.edu