globeron

My condolences and I like the yesterday's newsletters he made.

4,750

After a few tries 2,860. Good game!

I vote for Starfort. it looks like a good game!

Hi @mizapf it is your turn to choose! The Mine results: Mizapf 17,600 Globeron 15,320 Smoker Ace 7,400 Nitrohepcat 4,870

Update on the TI99 images to look better in the preview and to show old vs new manual RomTI99Images.zip e.g. the image will show both manuals (FYI - some TI-99 Cartridges have 3x different manuals)

I just tested with Batocera - https://updates.batocera.org/x86_64/stable/last/batocera-x86_64-x86_64-39-20240304.img.gz (website - https://batocera.org/download) Desktop PC, Laptop, NUC and Intel-based Apple Computers > unzip to .img file, with Win32mgr write to a USB stick (Sandisk 64 gb and bootup on the PC (Beelink Ser5), then a bluescreen appears, press key and boot Batocera. > press F1 (for the file system) > copy (from another USB stick or disk the .rpk files into SHARE/roms/ti99 (search on ftp.whtech.com in the batoceraretrobat) > copy in SHARE/bios the ti99_4a.zip and the ti99_speech.zip > Press spacebar > Game Settings > Update Gamelists (then Esc), now the TI99 is listed in the menu > Press spacebar > Game Settings > Per System configuration > TI99 > Emulator > MAME (Note: Libretro/MAME, it seems to have issues with sound and keymapping, like ENTER) (I did not had sound at first): > press spacebar -> System Settings -> Audio ouput -> select the right sound option Now > TI-99 - > select your TI game -> press Esc (this takes a while on my system, somehow Batocera is a bit slower than Retrobat, maybe because it runs of the USB) > Some hotkeys: ESC to get back to Batocera. (or CTRL-ESC in Libretro/MAME) > or SELECT + START on a controller > TAB (to configure MAME itself) > Using Controllers > Wired might work the best, Wireless I am using issues with PS4 controllers and Bluetooth (discovered okay, mapped okay, but after standby does not associate anymore and cannot delete and rediscover) > XINPUT controllers might work better as MAME prefers it. (that's why I use Windows with Retrobat and DS4Windows and Hide to use wireless PS4 controllers in XINPUT mode) > Mapping TI-keys. > Press spacebar > Game Settings > Per System configuration > TI99 > PAD2Key file. > e.g. map keys like 1, 2, 3 to to Y, A, B buttons on a PS4 controller > multi-combination keys e.g. FCTN-QUIT map it to (right) ALT and = (when you see the keyboard at the bottom of the screen you see the option how to configure combination keys) > or configure FCTN-BACK and FCTN-REDO (I map it to the Right Analog Stick). > and configure SELECT to 5 (e.g. for Mario Bros to insert a coin) Then most TI games you can play without touching the keyboard. Hope this helps for your Batocera setup.

15320. I am trying other levels at the bottom is a difficult one.

@Frank1969 I moved to Retrobat. But batocera should work very similar (bios, roms, rpk all the same). Try the retroarch/libretro as emulator (you can configure it per game) Or try mame64 as emulator. That might give the crash.

The orphan chronicles on internet archive of R. Albright is a good read. And home computer wars (more on commodore).

At the Montagehalle it starts to get into a loop, but it gets out eventually back to the map.

Nice will add it. Others were added already

Interesting info! Let's try to play all levels, to see if it works till the end. I can't remember ever completing it.

March 2024 Next Hi-Score competitions: The Mine: It looks like there are 25 rooms to complete. * RPK - themine.rpk * bin - themine.bin Disk (90kb SS/SD): The-Mine.dsk via module Editor Assembler - Option 3: * Load and Run filename: DSK1.LOADMINE * Press Enter * Program name: LOAD The Mine and more!

RPK format (for MAME): impetus.rpk the .bin is located here: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/impetus/#ti99