RobertLM78

I looks like someone put a flat screen LCD monitor in a TRS-80 Model IV and then made a 3D printed frame to dress it up...

More information << HERE >>
 

Thanks @RickR - i've actually been on the hunt for a modern replacement solution for the old 'sticks - a second spare pair which i don't expect to last too long

That looks pretty slick!  It looks like a customized 3D printed insert into a standard case.  I'd get one if I was any good with a gamepad, sadly I'm not.

FYI - I have the 7800 gamepad from these guys and it works really nicely.  It has lasted a long time too.  I'd definitely buy again. 

Thanks @RickR - i've actually been on the hunt for a modern replacement solution for the old 'sticks - a second spare pair which i don't expect to last too long

Anything would be an improvement over the stock TI sticks, but I can promise this thing will be the top quality pad you can get for TI:

https://retrogameboyz.com/products/ti-99-4a-ti-99-4a-joystick-controller-game-control-pad-texas-instruments

Never knew it even existed.

I'm pretty sure I owned a copy of Atari GEOS back in the day.  Maybe it was some other graphical interface.  But I'm pretty sure it was GEOS.  I still have the disks somewhere. 
 

Well truth be told, those add-ons were consolidated into the PBox (think an oversized bread box) that kinda sorta helped but was still huge nonetheless. Now we seem to judge size my today's standards LOL so everything back then looked huge. I actually was going to buy an Atari 400 (all I could afford) but TI's real keyboard and cheaper price won me out. Now I don't remember if the Atari had expansion devices but if they did add memory expansion, Disk Drives, Modems etc... how did they manage space wise?
 
They do have console only devices now for the TI that adds SD storage instead of that huge box. I'm looking into getting one of those as I don't have the space even for a PBox.

Thank you for your encouragement and kind words BTW!

The April Edition is out for download at ChicagoTIUG.org
 
I hope it's getting better. I'll keep asking people for contributions but I have to be honest, few people seem to want to write even a short article. I'll keep trying.

Link to the AtariAge thread:  https://forums.atariage.com/topic/362854-atlantis-game-port/
User Cheung has created a really good port of Atlantis for the TI and the ROM is available for download (for free!)

Here is a video:
Super impressive and I'm going to give this a try on mine.  Should work in emulation too.
 

If you have a TI-99/4A, << HERE >> is a little artwork at printables.com for it.

Looks cool. There have been board games based on arcade games for years.  Quite creative, actually.  Pac-Man has several types of board games.
 

While I personally am not a Pacman fan, I found something that may be of interest to some of you... a Ms. Pacman board game.  It's a 3D printed board and it looks like this...

... if this interests you, it's available <<HERE>> at the printables website for free.

I'm no expert or fortune teller, sadly just a slowly fading super-fan of the TI-99/4A, which appears (in my personal assessment) to have "peaked".  Years ago there were hundreds of messages a month in places like the old Yahoo site and then AA.  Some very happy, helpful and influential people have passed away though, others were driven off for various reasons which may have affected the fun factor and contributed to the declining participation rate.  Along the way there was a fantastic Newsletter by a guy called "Sparkdrummer" that was called Yesterday's News" in it he covered the best of the best from older newsletters in a format that matched the Newsletters of the time.  I'm sure many of us are waiting for the day when Sparky starts uploading them again. 
Now there is a recently "reborn newsletter", but I caught myself asking, "Why"?   Yeah, I shocked myself too!  << THIS LINK >> will get you a free PDF copy of it, but after looking it over, for the rebirth issue, wondered what it had going for it that 5 minutes with a search engine on the Internet could not have provided.  I really hope this takes off for them and they get the new content they want and viewers and readers they want, because the TI community needs to be more diverse and inclusive, even of newbies or those who are not master programmers or hardware gurus or those that simply want to play games.
DON'T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET!  If an online community is declining, there may be a reason for it other than beloved members passing away, or people being banned, other things may be going on behind the scenes, attitudes, egos or whatever.  So, I hope this Chicago Times Newsletter takes off and brings more people to their website and can help inspire people to engage or reengage.  Whatever though, don't let people influence you to "stay put" and not investigate new things, especially if their format is no longer working.  Sometimes new faces and new ideas can start a whole new chapter... maybe that person will be YOU!

The kind with the hand brake was what we had.  My brother and I would ride and slide on the Big Wheel until the rear wheels had holes in them. 
 

Alright, I'll play a round of this game 🙂

(hehehe - i couldn't help myself with the last one 😛 )

"You're my favorite nephew," uncle Hairy said. "Come and trim my nosehair."
If this isn't the most original background story(?) for a video game then I don't know what is 😂

Remember Lincoln Logs?

I went through 2 of them and one of them through 2 front wheels from "burning out" xD

I went through 2 of them and one of them through 2 front wheels from "burning out" xD

I went through 2 of them and one of them through 2 front wheels from "burning out" xD

Did anyone have one of these?!  I LOVED mine!

There was another model that was longer and worked more like a bicycle.  I think it's the one at the top of this picture...

I've seen these but I never had one.