looking for ctg converted game roms

[lucifershalo]

I am looking for roms already converted to ctg format

to use with TI emulator on PSP

 

I tried and tried to convert them with no success

[+Lee Stewart]

There are plenty of game ROMs available—many at WHTech, I believe. If you are trying to dump real cartridges, many are GROM-based and not quite so easy to dump.

 

...lee

[+arcadeshopper]

I am looking for roms already converted to ctg format

to use with TI emulator on PSP

 

I tried and tried to convert them with no success

 

if i remember correctly when i was messing with this emulator the tool is a pita (digging out psp) here's my carts disks and roms dir in a zip..

pspti99.zip

[lucifershalo]

many thanks !!

[Retrospect]

There was a windows / linux command line tool bundled with a Linux TI emulator, Convert CTG , iirc , that may or may not work as it's unreliable on the whole. I tried all this and needed ctg files at the time and it was a pain in the ass.

[+Schmitzi]

yes, TI99SIM by M, Rousseau, in the ZIP 0010

 

(or newer)

[retrofan11]

 

if i remember correctly when i was messing with this emulator the tool is a pita (digging out psp) here's my carts disks and roms dir in a zip..

 

Hi,

 

I try to use Extended Basic cartridges (xb.ctg and gkxb.ctg) from your archive, but it doesnt work and always get me a blue screen and stuck there.

Editor-Assembler and games work well, but Extended basic refuse to start, for some reason.

I use Linux version of this emulator (ti99sim).

In windows emulator classic99, Extended basic works, but I cant find him in .bin format and tryin to convert in ctg.

Simply I dont know is this some emulator issue or maybe broken or incompatible cartridges?

Can you help me with this to make Extended Basic to work?

Thanks.

Edited February 6, 2016 by retrofan11

[globeron]

I also had issues converting .bin to .ctg when I was testing it in Linux mint.

 

but here is a .zip file (see link the description of this video)

and all these .ctg worked well on a PSP (=TISIM99):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDwXt-oMbg

 

Linux Mint and Ti99Sim (but these .bin to .ctg conversions did not work on the PSP, but worked in Linux)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjm_jClk8Ro

[retrofan11]

Thank you so much, your xb25.ctg file work well and now I can use extended basic.

The problem is, how to insert the disk drive image properly?

For example, I have directory master disk image (dm.dsk) and I want to insert into virtual drive together with your extended basic cartridge.

I use following command: ti99sim-sdl --dsk1=dm.dsk xb25.ctg

Emulator started normally, the cartridge is present, but can not load anything from diskettes, nor am I sure whether it is attached well.

If I type the command OLD "dsk1.MGR1" I always occurs I/O error.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, this disk also has a file LOAD, which allows autostart, but I cant find a way how to use this feature too.

Maybe someone knows how to properly use a floppy disk with this emulator?

[MurdockScott]

globeron, arcadeshopper, I wanted to say thank you for the links to .ctg cartridge files. It was very helpful. You guys rock!

[mrulrich]

 

Thank you so much, your xb25.ctg file work well and now I can use extended basic.

The problem is, how to insert the disk drive image properly?

For example, I have directory master disk image (dm.dsk) and I want to insert into virtual drive together with your extended basic cartridge.

I use following command: ti99sim-sdl --dsk1=dm.dsk xb25.ctg

Emulator started normally, the cartridge is present, but can not load anything from diskettes, nor am I sure whether it is attached well.

If I type the command OLD "dsk1.MGR1" I always occurs I/O error.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, this disk also has a file LOAD, which allows autostart, but I cant find a way how to use this feature too.

Maybe someone knows how to properly use a floppy disk with this emulator?

 

 

Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm having the exact same issue now. Although I'm using the same syntax referenced above it doesn't seem like the disk image is "mounting". The disk I'm trying to use was written in TI Extended Basic but the only ctg i could find was version 2.5. Is it possible that is the issue?

Edited December 16, 2017 by mrulrich

[blackbox]

On my system, using Triton Super Extended Basic, when doing what you do results in an I/O ERROR 00, as it should.

 

The command for Triton XB must be in the form OLD "DSK1.PROGRAM" or RUN "DSK1.PROGRAM" - using "Dsk1.PROGRAM" brings in the error as you have to use ALL capitals for dsk1..

 

As a Linux user I think you are more used to lower case but on the TI Command line you generally need to use capitals.

 

Basic essentials:

If the emulator binary is in say home/ti/tisim then the disks are kept in /home/ti/tisim/disks and the disk binary, which needs to be called Disk.bin needs to be in /home/ti/tisim/roms (capital D, lowercase isk))

 

regards

 

Stephen

[blackbox]

Additional thought- if you are typing in OLD "dsk1.MGR1" then apart from the lower case, it looks as though you are trying to load an assembly language program (Option 5) which is listed on a disk directory as a PROGRAM file, but will not load in Extended Basic without some help- the Funlweb environment was very helpful.

 

I don't have RXB 25 but I think you need to be using REA (or Editor Assembler or some other EA5 loader)

 

In this case I think you will find files MGR1 and MGR2 on your disk, as the EA5 load could load several files and had an auto increment on the file name. Not helpful if the EA5 program has only one file- typically the disk file size will show as 32/33 sectors (some slight diversity of how disk cataloguers showed them).

 

The use of PROGRAM here simply means an image file. There were also other uses. Try for a known Extended Basic program, or write a short one and save it to disk SAVE "DSK1.MYPROG", having mounted a disk with a little spare room.

 

regards again,

 

Stephen Shaw

[mrulrich]

On my system, using Triton Super Extended Basic, when doing what you do results in an I/O ERROR 00, as it should.

 

The command for Triton XB must be in the form OLD "DSK1.PROGRAM" or RUN "DSK1.PROGRAM" - using "Dsk1.PROGRAM" brings in the error as you have to use ALL capitals for dsk1..

 

As a Linux user I think you are more used to lower case but on the TI Command line you generally need to use capitals.

 

Basic essentials:

If the emulator binary is in say home/ti/tisim then the disks are kept in /home/ti/tisim/disks and the disk binary, which needs to be called Disk.bin needs to be in /home/ti/tisim/roms (capital D, lowercase isk))

 

regards

 

Stephen

 

Forgive my ignorance. Are you saying I need to create a separate disk binary from the .dsk image file I currently have. I'm a novice trying to navigate my way through linux. I was under the impression that if I put the .dsk file in the disks directory and used a command like:

ti99sim-sdl --dsk1=diskname.dsk xb25.ctg

that would properly load the disk. I'm obviously mistaken because it's not working.

Edited December 17, 2017 by mrulrich

[blackbox]

Hi there.

 

Your emulator should open with the TI title screen, press a key for menu, then select Extended Basic.

 

When you select Extended Basic the system will look for a disk containing the program LOAD and if it fails to find it will give you the usual XB prompt.

 

Your command line is fine:

ti99sim-sdl --dsk1=dm.dsk xb25.ctg

Provided the right files are in the right locations....

(My personal choice is:

/ti99sim12/ti99sim-sdl -4 --dsk1=sliding.dsk --dsk2=times86.dsk sxba.ctg)

 

- some files systems you can use with Linux are picky about the use of capitals, so first make sure your disk file really is called dm.dsk and not DM.DSK -

 

That sounds like a disk manager disk, and MGR1 is almost certainly not an Extended Basic program.

 

I would expect it to have an Extended Basic program on it called LOAD, but maybe not.

 

However try OLD "DSK1.LOAD" using ALL capitals. If something loads then try RUN.

 

Else look for another disk which actually has an Extended Basic on it, or use a disk with a little room to write to, write a tiny XB prgram, save it and then try OLDing it.

 

Otherwise...

 

My version of the sim is 0.12.1 - I try not to upgrade unless there is a feature I really need or a bug that needs removing, and 0.12.1 works just fine here!

 

The disk binary is the operating system the sim needs to use the dsk files, and up to vn 13 was in a folder called roms, from vn 13 it was placed in a folder called console.

 

On my versions it had to be Disk.bin with a capital first letter.

 

TI Disks (.dsk files) are in a folder called disks!

 

A PROGRAM file on a TI disk may fail to load in Extended Basic because:

 

- It is too long. This is at the margin- someone may have reduced their disk buffer size before saving an XB program.

 

- It is a saved adventure game (Scott Adams, Tunnels of Doom)

 

- It is a graphic

 

- It is an assembly program, typically 32/33 sectors, quite often with auto incrementing file names eg MGR1 MGR2

 

On the other hand an XB program could be on disk as an IV254 file, which is loaded with the usual OLD or RUN commands. There is also a DV163 merge format for XB code.

 

 

stephen

Edited December 17, 2017 by blackbox

[+mizapf]

some files systems you can use with Linux are picky about the use of capitals, so first make sure your disk file really is called dm.dsk and not DM.DSK

 

I think the only file system that can be used in Linux that is case-insensitive is FAT. All other file systems are case-sensitive. Too bad that this insensitivity legacy from DOS times has survived in Windows until today...

[Russ-]

 

if i remember correctly when i was messing with this emulator the tool is a pita (digging out psp) here's my carts disks and roms dir in a zip..

 

Thanks for posting this zip file! Your TI-994A.CTG and your cartridge CTG's (ROMs) were the only set that I was able to get running on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+.

I installed the TI 99 emulator from the experimental packages, then I installed the TI-994A.CTG and ROM files to the BIOS directory (I obtained the TI-994A.CTG from another source) but after I loaded games (CTGs), they didn't play. I went back and erased those on the raspberry pi and then I installed your files (pspti99.zip) and they worked perfectly!

 

I have a collection of three old TI-994A consoles and a hundred cartridges. I also have the disk expansion box. I haven't used these for more than two decades!

 

Thanks everyone for posting such great information on brining the TI system to Retropie/Raspberry PI.

[+Ksarul]

Sounds like you should try and bring the old system back to life, @Russ-

 

There is a huge amount of new stuff out there for it!

[ironnerd]

OK... Late to this thread...

 

Where the heck can I find the TI-994A.ctg file for Retropie?

 

<update>

Found it

It's in here: [LINK] in the "Roms" folder.

</update>

Edited July 28, 2019 by ironnerd