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  1. Updated the DevRes thread RXB 2024B added DS99/4a emulator added TMS9900 cheat sheet added Fixed broken link to official nanopeb documentation. Changed it to point the wayback machine version stored on web.archive.org
  2. Looking forward seeing the Mechatronic up and running. Please share some video footage if you do, you have some rare hardware there.
  3. Using the cartridge space as a ROMDISK is a real cool feature to say the least. This is a topic I’d like to take a closer look myself. If I’m not mistaking there’s another romdisk project by Fred, but might be wrong here and have no details on that. My purpose is, to distribute DV80 files on my Stevie editor cartridge image. Unfortunately all of this is on hold for now, because of real-life sh*t called work. Oh well.
  4. Here’s an interesting article on the Tomy Pyuuta. There’s a picture of a small board with a v9958 that plugs into the Pyuuta and VGA enables it. This brings up a lot of very interesting questions 1. Can the board be reproduced or is for sale? 2. How is the Pyuuta able to disable the built-in TMS9918 and put output on the V9958 without doing any internal console modifications 3. How much VRAM is there on the board? Does it use VRAM on board or somehow accesses internal VRAM? 4. How old is the board? https://www.kernelcrash.com/blog/the-tomy-pyuuta/2023/10/08/ EDIT: some of the questions are addressed in the article, left here for discussion nonetheless.
  5. You went quite deep to compare the differences between DX10 and the TI-99-4a file handling. Was wondering, did you come on any details how the catalog of files on DX10 storage devices looks like, compared to what we have on the TI-99/4a ?
  6. I for one would be very interested in bigger SAMS. Could for example imagine having Final command in 1MB and stevie in the higher 1MB. And to be honest I have run into the 1MB limit a couple of times while testing Stevie
  7. I’m not sure what settings to put in the settings file. There’s nothing too special, it’s just a 64K non-inverted ROM image. For “mounting” the cartridge I always use the classic99 menu option “user cartridge” (or similar) and pick the file. If it resets, its perhaps a sign that either SAMS and/or F18a are not enabled in classic99 ? I’ll let @Vorticon chime in, because I think he used classic99 more than I. Most of the development I did with js99er. Having said that, I can take a look at the weekend if it still don’t work. What’s still lacking at the moment is a proper user message if SAMS and/or F18a are missing.
  8. Should you be running Stevie on a real TI-99/4A install, I wouldn't mind if you attach a photo or short video of the thing in action. Did not have a chance yet to try it out on my TI-99/4a with IDE card, as my harddrive is broken. So far it got tested with my TIPI PEB card and HRD4000B cards and in emulation land. But the latter obviously doesn't count 😁
  9. Just a word on the file picker functionality. When you're in the File -> Catalog dialog or in File -> Open, Insert, Append you basically just type the device/file path. If the last character is a dot "." and you press ENTER, Stevie will interpret that as a device path and will try to read the directory. If the directory is successfully read, you can move the file selector by using arrow key up or down. You can also switch pages (if you have more files than fit the screen) with CTRL-E and CTRL-X. You can switch between columns with CTRL-S and CTRL-D. You can move to the parent directory by pressing SPACE. In most of the dialogs you can press CTRL-1 to CTRL-9 to read the catalog from device DSK1 to DSK9. If you are on a supported dialog, the filepicker functionality will kick-in and you'r able to navigate on the device. You can find the necesary key combinations by going to the Help screen (or use shortcut key CTRL-H) Once a directory is read, it's cached in memory. So if you're in the editor screen, you can press CTRL-< to read the previous file, or CTRL-> to read the next file.
  10. ok, new version of Stevie is out. Grab it while you can 🙂
  11. I've released Stevie 1.5.32 As of this version I will be using semantic versioning. Actually I planned to release this around Xmas, but I wasn't pleased with the overal functionality yet. So I had to postpone for a bit. Besides some minor things, the biggest update on this release is the catalog with its file picker functionality. If you are on a supported device like TIPI or IDE you can move between subdirectories and this really improves the usability IMHO. Besides that there are a ton of bugfixes again (and most likely a ton new bugs introduced) and some minor new features. Going forward I will probably have to do a better job on documentation because there are quite a few hidden functionalities to speed-up navigation. Having said that, here's a list of some of the changes (in no particular order) Usability: Add catalog & file picker https://github.com/FilipVanVooren/stevie/issues/9 Goto 0 to jump to EOF https://github.com/FilipVanVooren/stevie/issues/85 Remove master catalog functionality https://github.com/FilipVanVooren/stevie/issues/87 Possibility to add line termination character on file save https://github.com/FilipVanVooren/stevie/issues/80 Bugfixes: SAMS pages not properly reset when doing new file operation https://github.com/FilipVanVooren/stevie/issues/83 Overwrite mode cursor position on insert wrong https://github.com/FilipVanVooren/stevie/issues/82 BASIC/XB cursor sometimes stuck on last line https://github.com/FilipVanVooren/stevie/issues/81 CTRL-B does not take you to end of file https://github.com/FilipVanVooren/stevie/issues/79 Grab the newest version here: As usual a big thanks to @Vorticon for testing, feedback and keeping me motivated
  12. I found this link. Is that what you are referring to? https://github.com/c0pperdragon/LumaCode/wiki/TMSdigitizer-(for-ColecoVision-and-MSX) And this for installation on the TI-99/4a: https://github.com/c0pperdragon/LumaCode/issues/13#issuecomment-1902838176
  13. I am looking if I can do something along the lines for the TI Basic integration in my Stevie editor. There I have the possibility to run up to 5 TI Basic sessions. Basically there is an ISR that is setup before jumping into TI Basic. Purpose of the ISR is to show the session number and read the command buffer so I can jump back into the editor. Think it watches for the command “EXIT”, but have to verify. Has been a while. Long story short, in regards to your question. What perhaps is possible is to have an ISR that watches the command buffer, pokes OLD DSK…… and after completion pokes “RUN”.
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