+Ksarul Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Wasn't something to that effect part of the demo for the PC99 utilities? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Wasn't something to that effect part of the demo for the PC99 utilities? Yes, the PC99 utilities can read the directory and access the files of a Pascal disk, but it has to be in PC99 format. My problem is that I'm not able to convert the v9t9 dsk image I have to PC99 format. TI99Dir grays out that option for that specific disk... Is there another utility that converts dsk to PC99 out there? My understanding from the presentation was that the PC99 format includes a lot more detailed information about the disk being emulated than the v9t9 format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Problem solved! It turns out that the PC99 utilities can import sectors from a v9t9 disk image and convert it to a PC99 disk. I can now access the files from PC99 without issues. The process is buried in the documentation, so my bad... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Problem solved! It turns out that the PC99 utilities can import sectors from a v9t9 disk image and convert it to a PC99 disk. I can now access the files from PC99 without issues. The process is buried in the documentation, so my bad... Okay, I misunderstood, you were trying to go from one format (v9t9) to another (pc99). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Is there another utility that converts dsk to PC99 out there? My understanding from the presentation was that the PC99 format includes a lot more detailed information about the disk being emulated than the v9t9 format. In TIImageTool I can copy files from one image format to another, but this is file-based only. I did not need to create sector copies yet, but this should be simple (if anyone is interested, of course). This could be interesting also for converting between HFE and DSK. The PC99 format seems to encode much more information, however, the format itself is too restricted to really preserve that specific information. In particular, you can encode the sector sequence, but there is not much freedom for setting the gap contents and lengths. I recently noticed that all the PC99 images from MAME and from TIImageTool failed to be validated by PC99, because I thought I could use the real CRC instead of the pseudo CRC (F7F7). This has been fixed in the meantime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 (edited) Seems to me there are a couple of other apps to convert them, too. In particular, I believe TI99-PC from Paolo Bagnaresi will. http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/howto/ti99pc.html I am playing around as time permits to do a app, either web or otherwise to do about the same thing as Paolo's application, only with a modern interface, maybe with more options. But don't hold your breath, it may be awhile, though I have started a skeleton of it. Edited November 28, 2018 by RickyDean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 I used TI99-PC extensively around 2001.As I recall it became difficult to find PC's that were old enough to have the MODIFIED FREQUENCY MODULATION HARD DRIVE CONTROLLER(I discovered the hard way was required to achieve all disk formats)(or was it a FREQUENCY MODULATION HARD DRIVE CONTROLLER?)and yet new enough to run WINDOWS 95. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Same here, and that may limit some usefulness, but I do have a few pc's from that era in storage. FM or Single density, at least for physical disks, may be out of the picture, but I can still support images of various types, v9t9, pc99, Hfe, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 It has not anything to do with simulated disk images, but I have Pascal software which will convert p-system text files to Dis/Var 80, and vice versa. These programs run under the p-system. The disks for the p-system have the special p-system's disk directories. They are read and written by direct sector access from the computer. The file PASCAL you can see from the normal operating system is just a dummy space marker. It occupies the entire disk, to prevent overwriting the p-system files from the normal operating system. Otherwise it wouldn't see any files on the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Hi, After reading everything in this thread I would like to play with Pascal on my Real Ti99. Of course I have yet to find the rare impossible to find P card. Anything I can run on my TI99? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 You could always hunt down TurboPasc99. It was an alternative to the UCSD version that didn't require a p-Code card. I believe the disks are up on WHT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 You could always hunt down TurboPasc99. It was an alternative to the UCSD version that didn't require a p-Code card. I believe the disks are up on WHT. Thanks I will try to find Turbopascal99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+9640News Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Any idea what a P-Code card goes for now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Any idea what a P-Code card goes for now? No Idea but I almost got my hands on one for $200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Thanks I will try to find Turbopascal99 It's in the pinned Development resources thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 You could always hunt down TurboPasc99. It was an alternative to the UCSD version that didn't require a p-Code card. I believe the disks are up on WHT. Just keep in mind that it's not a full version of Pascal, with pointers being, well..., pointedly absent 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossman Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 No Idea but I almost got my hands on one for $200 I bought mine a little over a year ago for $179.95. At the time, it seemed oddly precise. Some time later, flipping through some old 99'er magazines or product catalogs or something, I realized that was the list price for it new in 1984 or so. Apropos. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 got me a p-code card. the link to the UCSD disks isn't working. anyone willing to share? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 got me a p-code card. the link to the UCSD disks isn't working. anyone willing to share? These? Texas Instruments TI-99 4A [TOSEC]/Various/UCSD p-System Assembler & Linker (1981)(Texas Instruments)[PHD 5064].zip Texas Instruments TI-99 4A [TOSEC]/Various/UCSD p-System Compiler (1981)(Texas Instruments)[PHD 5063].zip Texas Instruments TI-99 4A [TOSEC]/Various/UCSD p-System Editor & Filer (1981)(Texas Instruments)(Disk 1 of 2)[PHD 5065].zip Texas Instruments TI-99 4A [TOSEC]/Various/UCSD p-System Editor & Filer (1981)(Texas Instruments)(Disk 2 of 2)[PHD 5065].zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 These? Yes sir! many thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I have 2 DS/DD drives, can I copy all the files and run everything with a 2 disk system? The executables the compiler creates can you run it without the Code card? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I have 2 DS/DD drives, can I copy all the files and run everything with a 2 disk system? The executables the compiler creates can you run it without the Code card? Thanks Yes, as long as the programs you need are on one of the disks, you should be good. And no, the executables cannot run without the pcode card because they are not true binaries but rather pseudo code that needs interpretation by the pcode system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Yes, as long as the programs you need are on one of the disks, you should be good. And no, the executables cannot run without the pcode card because they are not true binaries but rather pseudo code that needs interpretation by the pcode system. Anyway to get the compiler to give assembly source code that I can compile with the EA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Anyway to get the compiler to give assembly source code that I can compile with the EA? I'm not aware of a way to do it, but I might be wrong. apersson is the one to chime in on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I don't know what this is for exactly or where it came from... UCSD Pascal Development System (198x)(Texas Instruments)(proto)(Part 1 of 2).zip UCSD Pascal Development System (198x)(Texas Instruments)(proto)(Part 2 of 2).zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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