ezf@bbncc5.UUCP (Ed Frankenberry) (09/02/85)
Thought I'd try netnews as a last resort. Can anyone suggest a source for a Logo II cartridge for the discontinued TI 99/4a home computer? I've tried all the local software stores, but it seems I'm two years too late. Are there any mail order distributors? Is there still a user group that might be able to help? Just out of curiosity, what happens to ROM cartridges when a manufacturer dumps a home computer or video game? Since they can't be reprogrammed, they would appear to have no parts value. Is there a warehouse somewhere that's overflowing with cartridges from TI, Coleco's Adam, Intellivision, Atari, Vectrex, Commodore, IBM's PC Jr., etc.? where do they all end up? Ed Frankenberry ihnp4!bbncca!ezf ezf@bbn-unix.ARPA
mj@myriasb.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann) (09/05/85)
[ crunch! crunch! ] I am responding in news since mail was returned by bellcore with "user unknown" message. Follows contents of my letter: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here in Edmonton is a store which right now is advertising Logo II for something like 99.95 (Canadian). Its address is "Nova Computerware", 52 Airport Road, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (sorry, no code). Phone (403) - 452 - 0372. "Phone & mail orders welcome". Open Tue-Sat 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. They have also some other stuff for TI 99. Please be advised that though I consider Logo II an excellent implementation - if you take into account space and an architecture constraints - it has one serious deficiency and one very serious and annoying bug. A deficiency is that you cannot dump your turtle screen to a dot-matrix printer. Since there is no link to assembler of which I would know I cannot patch it. An essence of a bug is a fact that editor accepts lists of limited length. Since a load from mass storage (like disk) apparently goes through the editor a net effect is as follows: whenever you have program which generates longer lists (like ANIMAL for example) and you will save it after running a while, then on the next attempt to load it back a system will quietly crash. You may program around this - like splitting lists into dummy procedures on save and restoring on load - but this is neither obvious nor convenient and for sure difficult to explain to kids. ...ihnp4!Alberta!myrias!mj ======================================================================= I do not have any connections neither with "Nova Computerware" nor TI. The info on availability only reproduces what I have seen in an ad.