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What!?!  Pengo didn't make the list?  I'd be interested in Pengo, or Berzerk at a fair price.  I do PayPal.

Fest West 2017 will be from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday the 29th of April.
Attendance is FREE however you'll be expected to pay for your own lunch.
 
Signups begin on February 1st and conclude on April 15th.  This will enable me to give number of attendees to the restaurant so they can plan for proper scheduling and staffing for us.
 
To signup, please send an email to:  festwest2017@gmail.com
I'll need your FIRST NAME and your prefered USERNAME on sites like atari.io or atariage.com.  
 
Your name information will be printed on your own custom name badge (so people know who you are).  Name badges will be required to enter the drawings.

Thanks Rick.  Say, are you going to be at Fest West again this year?  The venue is closer to your neck of the woods this year.  It'll be at the Oak Tree Restaurant in Woodland, WA.  So far it looks like it'll be better than last years.

If you own one of the new 32K side-car memory expansions for the TI-99/4A, you'll want to watch this video.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5idkQruAks
 
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very nice.

If you own one of the new 32K side-car memory expansions for the TI-99/4A, you'll want to watch this video.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5idkQruAks
 
Please, if you like TI-99/4A related videos, please subscribe so I'll know it's worth all the effort.  Thanks!

If you own one of the new 32K side-car memory expansions for the TI-99/4A, you'll want to watch this video.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5idkQruAks
 
Please, if you like TI-99/4A related videos, please subscribe so I'll know it's worth all the effort.  Thanks!

If you own one of the new 32K side-car memory expansions for the TI-99/4A, you'll want to watch this video.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5idkQruAks
 
Please, if you like TI-99/4A related videos, please subscribe so I'll know it's worth all the effort.  Thanks!

Nice thread!  You made it look brand new!  Do you have any before shots of the externals?

Nice thread!  You made it look brand new!  Do you have any before shots of the externals?

Nice thread!  You made it look brand new!  Do you have any before shots of the externals?

And here is the final product.  Cleaned up real nice.  Very happy and thankful to have this in my collection. 

YES! 
 
I'll post another picture once I get it cleaned up and put back together. 

I got this item from a very nice fellow on Facebook.  He sent it to me for the cost of shipping because it was broken.  Jmjustin6 also helped me out with this one.
 
It arrived, and sure enough, was broken.  But I've disassembled it and it now works!  Needed several solder points touched up.  Especially those on the power connector. 
 
I will say that it needs a good cleaning now that I have it disassembled.  It smells of smoke and cat (I'm exaggerating, it's mostly just dusty).  I suspect this guy:
 

 
Who can guess what it is? 

CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

 

 

I have a project that will afford 'some' portability for a TI-99/4A.  
I've purchased another F18A and a VGA to HDMI adapter.  I'm still waiting on parts to install everything internally like power and to combine the audio, then there will be only two wires... the power adapter and an HDMI cable.
 
When I'm done, it will not be as portable as your setup, but it should work on the TV's in the hotels. 
This with the FlashROM 99 & the new Plug-N-Play 32K.... truly portable BLISS IN A BAG.

I have a project that will afford 'some' portability for a TI-99/4A.  
I've purchased another F18A and a VGA to HDMI adapter.  I'm still waiting on parts to install everything internally like power and to combine the audio, then there will be only two wires... the power adapter and an HDMI cable.
 
When I'm done, it will not be as portable as your setup, but it should work on the TV's in the hotels. 
This with the FlashROM 99 & the new Plug-N-Play 32K.... truly portable BLISS IN A BAG.

Here is a picture of the box, click to enlarge the photo.

Excellent job on the vid as always!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBFrgerq0B0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBFrgerq0B0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBFrgerq0B0

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/it-took-33-years-for-someone-to-find-the-easter-egg-in-this-apple-ii-game-gumball?utm_content=buffer9e9fe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
Gumball, a game released in 1983 for the Apple II and other early PCs, was never all that popular. For 33 years, it held a secret that was discovered this week by anonymous crackers who not only hacked their way through incredibly advanced copyright protection, but also became the first people to discover an Easter Egg hidden by the game’s creator, Robert A. Cook. Best of all? Cook congratulated them Friday for their work.
For the last few years, the cracker known as 4a.m. has been systematically cracking the DRM on old Apple II games and uploading them to the Internet Archive. Because almost all of the games are completely out of print, all-but-impossible to find, and run only on old computers, 4a.m. is looked at as more of a game preservation hero than a pirate.
Thus far, he’s cracked 683 games and told me over Twitter DM that most games that came out in the early 1980s can be trivially cracked with automated utilities. Gumball was different.
“Copyright protection developer Roland Gustafsson was legendary at Apple II copy protection. Roland was in a class by himself,” 4a.m. told me. “To give you a sense of how extraordinary it was, consider that this is my 683rd crack, and this write-up was almost twice as long as my previous longest.”
But the DRM wasn’t the only extraordinary thing about the game. As he was cracking the game with his sometimes partner (who goes by “qkumba,”) he noticed a cipher.
“I stumbled on a site that had a vague reference to the initial step in revealing the egg. I told qkumba to try it, and he said it came back with these messages on screen after each level,” 4a.m. said. “I recognized it as a simple substitution cipher and put it into an online cipher solver I found through a quick Google search.”
The game puts you in charge of a gumball factory worker who progresses to become foreman, supervisor, manager, and vice president of the factory—if you hit “ctrl+z” during the cutscenes between levels of the game, you get different codes of the cipher. Solved, the cipher reveals this code:
ENTER THREE
LETTER CODE
WHEN
YOU RETIRE
If you hit ctrl+z again during “retirement,” which is the end of the game, there’s one final code: “DOUBLE HELIX.” 4a.m. and qkumba entered “DNA” at the end of the game and got this screen:

As far as 4a.m. knows, this is the first time anyone has ever solved the cipher or found this Easter egg. When he tweeted about it, Cook himself thought the same:
As I mentioned, 4a.m. has become a bit of a folk hero in the Apple II community, which is still going strong (read more about the community and its annual “KansasFest” festival each year here). He says he got the copy of Gumball on loan from a friend who was a former developer that worked with Broderbund. [Update:This copy of Gumball apparently came from a shoebox in famous game designer Jordan Mechner's garage.]
“I’ve never seen a copy of Gumball for sale on eBay or anywhere,” 4a.m. told me. “It really is quite rare.”
And now you can play it—and find its secret—for free online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DJgWsw_cI

You'll love this short little clip then....
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axTdv68wIvk