JAN
2000:
In a message to eGroups member Glenn Bernasek, Tom Wills states that the
original TI List Server will likely shut down in February of 2000 when
the contract for service runs out. "Glenn, Yes, if you post to ti9-@theriver.com,
it will then go to the OLUG at eGroups.com. So you only need to post it
once to the "old" list server. Even though my contract is through
2/10/2000, I wouldn't plan on it being arond past 2/1/2000. Tom"
- The 1999 Jim Peterson Memorial Award nominees are announced by Glenn
Bernasek of TI-CHIPS, the Cleveland, OH Users Group:
- TI-99/4A Community Service:
- Charles Good Scanning of TI documentation.
- Don O'Neil FTP site.
- Hal Shanafield Organizing the 1999 Chicago Faire.
- Harold Mayo Orphanage BBS
- John Koloen and Laura Burns MICROpendium
- Mike Wright Archiving TI documents.
- TI-Chips Organizing and hosting TIMUG99.
- Tom Wills The List Serve
- TI-99/4A Software:
- Bruce Harrison His Midi routines for the TI-99/4A.
- John Bull Contract Bridge program.
- Leonard Taffs Many published specialty/utility programs.
- TI-99/4A Hardware:
- Don O'Neil SCSI cards.
- Michael Becker Distributing and servicing SNUG cards.
- Myarc, Geneve 9640:
- Jim Uzzell ABASIC 4.0
- Tim Tesch Servicing the 9640.
- On January 10, 2000 c99 author Clint Pulley posts Y2K updates for his
MDOS programs on comp.sys.ti and officially releases all of his TI-99/4A
and Geneve shareware software into the freeware arena. He also announces
that he is no longer writing for the Geneve or MDOS. "The file dmy2k.ark
contains y2k compliant versions of my Directory Manager (dm) and Directory
Display (d) programs for MDOS. The archive contains the program files dm,
dn and d which should replace the non-y2k compliant versions. As I am no
longer developing software for MDOS all of my shareware programs for the
TI 99-4A and Geneve are now freeware."
- On Janaury 10th, America On-Line, which started life as Quantum, the
Commodore 64 On-Line Information Service, buys Time Warner, the company
who bought Warner Communications, who bought Atari from founder Nolen Bushnell.
The deal is closed for a paltry $184 billion.
- Tony McGovern (arvc-@cc.newcastle.edu.au), author and 'sustainer' of
Funnelweb, the operating environment and productivity tool that became
a standard in the TI Community shortly after it's 1986 introduction, releases
FunnelWeb into the public domain, complete with the source code for the
entire application. Downloads for the source code may be found at Don O'Neil's
FTP site ftp.whtech.com.
FEB 2000:
4A/Talk co-author Thomas Frerichs announces that "I've
been able to speak to Bill Moseid of DataBioTics, and he has granted permission
to release the source of 4A/Talk. Sadly, we don't have the source on a
floppy, so my partner in crime, Mike Holmes, is busy doing an OCR of the
source listing. Please be patient, the source listing is almost 200 pages...there
were just under 7,000 lines of source. We'll get it posted as soon as we
can." (tfrerich-@tg.syswiz.com)
- Rich Polivka posts news on eGroups that he has been told of 20-22 pallets
of TI-99/4A NOS (new old stuff) in a warehouse in Lubbock, TX.
- Microsoft Corporation releases Windows 2000 on February 17th.
- On February 2nd William M. Lucid reports that the Hoosier User's Group
BBS has been taken off-line. Lucid says that the BBS received over 9600
calls since going on-line in January 1995.
- Tony Knerr announces the release of a patch for Disk Manager 2000 on
February 8th. "If anyone is interested, I've made a patch to Disk
Manager 2000 that allows it to load from any option 5 loader. I've tested
it with BOOT, Extended Basic v2.5 (& 2.6), Ramdisk CALL, TI Writer,and
several others. It's a single file named DM2N that you copy over your existing
DM2N file. It's now 10 sectors instead of 3, because the E/A utilities
are included and the program doesn't have to go looking for them someplace
else. I can upload it to whtech.com if anyone wants it. Tony"
- Hollie Brashear, wife of always outspoken, and sometimes controversial
TI-99er Harry Brashear, dies of cancer.
- J. Peter Hoddie leaves Apple Computer to form Generic Media.
- Former 99er Jesse Slicer posts the following message on comp.sys.ti:
"I'd like to add my $.02 to this thread... My mother (Shirley Slicer)
sent me the original message and told me that it reminded her of my experiences
with the 4A. I had to agree and got a bit wistful at reading it. I started
out at the age of 10 (1982) when I got my first TI at Christmas, furiously
inputting programs into the computer from Home Computer Magazine. In 1985
and 1986, I buckled down and taught myself 9900 Assembly with the help
from the 'usual' names of the gurus of the time. In 1987, a year after
we moved to the Kansas City area, we opened up a part-time BBS that served
the TI and KC community at large and it was basically for fun. It was five
years later in 1992 that we pulled the plug. I was in college then, working
toward my BS in Computer Science. I also had one user, Robin Owens, at
the time who after my poking and prodding, decided to become my girlfriend.
Today, I'm a manager of several programmers at a large tax preparation
firm based in Kansas City (take a guess!) and have been married to Robin
for over 3 years. I cannot overemphasize how much the TI-99/4A has affected
my life in every corner at this point. At my mom's house, in my old bedroom,
still sits the TI in its highly-expanded form. I haven't programmed on
it in years, but the principles of programming I learned from it still
guide me in my work every day. I also have to thank the hard work my mother
and I put in on making a great bulletin board system for bringing me together
with my wonderful wife. Here's to the TI! "
- Dan Eicher reports that "...I just finished the book Renegades
of the Empire. About the three guys who created DirectX for the PC. Peter
Hoddie is mentioned a couple of times in the book as the Senior Architect
of Quicktime."
MAR 2000:
APR 2000:
MAY 2000:
The Jim Peterson Achievement Awards for 2000 go to:
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TI-99/4A COMMUNITY SERVICE:
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Charles Good and Tom Wills
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TI-99/4A SOFTWARE:
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John Bull
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TI-99/4A HARDWARE:
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Michael Becker
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MYARC, "GENEVE" 9640:
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Tim Tesch
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JUL 2000:
Raymond Eugene (Gene) Portwood Jr., a Disney animator and
innovative computer artist who helped create the landmark learning game
"Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" dies at the age of 66
on July 17th. Portwood and business partner Lauren Elliott created Where
in the World is Carmen Sandiego and Where in the U.S.A. is
Carmen Sandiego originally for Apple computers while at Broderbund
Software.
AUG 2000:
SEP 2000:
On September 22, 2000 John Bull announces that he is ending
the updating of his popular CONTRACT BRIDGE program at version 6.10. "After
about 15 years, with almost all available program memory and my brain used
up, I am closing out CONTRACT BRIDGE with version 6.10. Not many have the
TI-99/4a with 32K that it takes to run it. If you want a copy, send me
a mailing address - there are about 20 5 1/4" floppies wrapped and
ready to mail. It has been fun! John "
OCT 2000: Jack
Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, KS and went on to invent the integrated
circuit (while working for Texas Instruments), is awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize posthumously.
NOV 2000:
Long time Hoosier Users Group member Johnny F. Powell dies
on November 22nd. For years John allowed the TI Huggers (Indianapolis,
IN) to run the club's Bulletin Board from the Powell's home. John was also
a past officer of the Hoosier Users Group. -- William M. Lucid
DEC 2000:
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