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  2. Posted

    https://wordpress.com/view/ti99resources.wordpress.com

    June 27,2020

    Added TI Disk Games section with Tunnels of Doom as 1st entry. TOD software includes three TOD adventure disk and TOD editor. Also uploaded TOD cart-on-disk to that area. There is minor glitches in opening credits on cart-on-disk version otherwise is fine. also uploaded the TunnelsofDoom.rpk for those who want the cart.

    added Return from the Isle adventure game in 3rd party.

    Added cartridges Tris 2 and Scrabble to cartridges.

    also added Barrage and SabreWulf disk and cartridge.

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  3. Posted

    ADDING A LOT OF GAMES OVER THE NEXT WEEK OR SO.

     

    already Added '3rd Party Games on Disk' sections.

     

    Disk games added: 4A-Flyer, Airline, Beyond Parsec, D-station I&II, Junkman Jr., Mr. Chin, Pitfall, Road Hunter, Rock Run, Spad XIII, TI Runner, TI Scramble and TI-Lander.

     

    Added Driving Demon to 3rd Party Cartridge Games.

     

    Added a TI-PHM-listing to TI Game Cartridges.

     

     

     

  4. Posted

    Added '3rd Party Games on Disk' sections.

    Disk games added: 4A-Flyer, Airline, Beyond Parsec, D-station I&II, Junkman Jr., Mr. Chin, Pitfall, Road Hunter, Rock Run, Spad XIII, TI Runner, TI Scramble and TI-Lander.

    Added Driving Demon to 3rd Party Cartridge Games.

    Added a TI-PHM-listing to TI Game Cartridges.

  5. Posted

    2 hours ago, retroclouds said:

     

    Thanks the reason I asked is to see if Myarx XBII could be patched to run from SAMS and FinalGROM.

    Well, it seems it’s not an impossible task, unless I missed something.

    does the FinalGrom emulate a SuperspaceII? I haven't been keeping up on it?

  6. Posted

    30 minutes ago, retroclouds said:

    Are there any technical details on the MEMEXP-1 memory card? Could not find any details:

    • How much does it differ from SAMS?
    • What memory areas are pageable?
    • Does the MEMEXP-1 have a DSR?

    I read that the MYXBII cartridge is not much more than a loader for setting up the MEMEXP-1 card and loading MYXBII from a storage device. Is that confirmed?

    you can use superspaceII in place of the MYXBII cartridge and it works fine.it's just a storage area. that's what I use in MAME and people who have the MYXBII card has said that works. as for the other questions @mizapf might be able to help there.

  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, mizapf said:

    It could as well be a bug. You have to consider that we are probably the first people who add a memory expansion to the 99/2. 🙂

     

    that's entirely possible too. BTW did you test it with both ROM versions?

     

  9. Posted

    7 hours ago, mizapf said:

    You may be glad to hear that in the next MAME release (or the one after it; it may be too late for next Wednesday release) the TI-99/2 will offer an expansion slot and a 32K memory expansion. I never saw it in reality, but let's just assume that it could have existed.

     

      

    mame64 ti99_232 -hexbus hx5102 -flop1 ti992testdssd.dsk -expport ram32k

     

     

    I tested it with some BASIC programs, and it seems as if it actually works; I could load a TI BASIC program of 9 KiB size. There seem to be some issues with larger files, however: The screen space gets overwritten, you see some text on it. Note that you have to give it some time to parse the program; this takes up to 10 seconds and more, showing a blank screen. (I thought it crashed, but the cursor suddenly came back.)

    interesting. I wonder if there was a switch to relocate the video ram when the memory was installed?

  11. Posted

    3 hours ago, ti99iuc said:

    for who can be interested, here the link of some of my stuff listed on ebay, lot of other stuff will be listed next days / weeks
     

    https://www.ebay.it/sch/ti99iuc/m.html?_nkw&_armrs=1&_ipg&_from&fbclid=IwAR1BrKLkBqEW_YeItMiw3WrgpyV2fnQVEfQ_GS7NQd55Iqxtn3cHXMccTWg

     

    102718553_2765670637052482_6786143401023101159_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=VSv6idEcJOwAX_N7Ezq&_nc_ht=scontent.ffco2-1.fna&_nc_tp=7&oh=7adebe7851eb71d92d6971e41154c268&oe=5F050652

    that Tachyon 32k memory expansion looks like the one I sold on ebay many,many years ago to someone in Europe (after I fried I original TI99). Since there weren't too many of those things made I wonder if that is the same one? 

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  14. Posted

    7 hours ago, blackbox said:


    Correction to Myarc XBII Appendices-
    A few years late perhaps, but there is an error on page 10 where at present you can see:
    ! P+      ! P-  and  ! P*

    These should read:
    [email protected]+   [email protected]  and  [email protected]*
    which are the pre-scan commands, which I also don't see in my TI XB manuals.


     

    which has drawn my attention to another ommission- the original Myarc XBII manual is based upon the original TI XB manual (Version 100!).

    See what's wrong?  They didn't take into account the several appendices that TI issued along the way, especially the TI XB Vn 110 changes.


     

    I am going to scan the Myarc XBII manual, amend the content to reflect the changes in the appendices, and now I am going to also look at the TI XB appendices and make amendments for those.  

    This will take time, but at the end of the day we should have an authoritative and up to date manual.


     

    Perhaps someone else can produce an updated TI XB Manual - one where CALL VERSION returns 110 for example!

    s





     

    no shock finding errors in the MyArc XBII manual. I have found more than one in the copy that came with the Cyc. like LIST is still LIST firstline-finishline in the manual. actuality it should be LIST firstline,finishline - use a comma intead of dash. plus if you don't have a startline or finshline it errors.  and the Cyc didn't have appendices (or at least the version I have). another is the manual still say PRINT FREESPACE(0) but a not later says it has defaulted back to SIZE and FREESPACE(0) doesn't work. 

    interesting related side note in 99/8. 99/8 uses PRINT FREESPACE(0) instead of SIZE. But you can't use SIZE as a variable as it errors with syntax error. SIZE is still in the BASIC command table.

  15. Posted

    3 hours ago, RXB said:

    CALL VERSION(X) in XB manual does put 100 into variable X, but does return the actual value 110 in version 110.

    CALL VERSION(X) in RXB 2015 does put 2015 into X, RXB 2020 will put 2020 into X.

    Rich,
    I've been RXB out of classic99 then turning it in to a .rpk but the latest there is 2015. where is the RXB 2020 ?

  17. Posted

    added a standard TI-99/4a setup to MAME packages. this one does not have any documents in it (since a lot of my stuff in Cyc) but has software. I also have some nice simple .vbs script menus for Infocom games, Adventure games and few others in applications. uses MAME/MESS 20 above like others.

    also added P-Card package. NOTE: with p-card package you have to use the MAME dip switch to turn on the p-card the 1st time you use it.

    if there is any other TI99 MAME setups you might would like to see, just drop me a post here and i'll see if I can oblige. 

    MyarcXBII coming soon.

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  20. Posted

    5 hours ago, Jeff White said:

    Isn't Myarc XBII based upon the BASIC for the TI 99/8?  See https://ftp.whtech.com/datasheets and manuals/99-8 Computer/Differences Between TI Extended BASIC and Armadillo BASIC.pdf

    sorta kinda. they made some changes MyXBII like dumping FREESPACE, going with a comma in LIST instead if a dash and a few other minor ones including how the memory is allocated. Although... I hadn't really thought about it, but yes, you could go with the 99/8 BASIC manual, mostly, for now till we get a real manual. Note though, the changes and additions manual I created is more accurate and @blackbox  is still scanning a real manual. but to get people to start using myarcXBII I'm for whatever works.

  22. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Casey said:

    I used your Mille Bourne game to test with.  

     

    On the 99/4A in Extended BASIC, I exited the game that autostarted, and then did OLD DSK1.MILL34 followed by SAVE DSK1.MILMRG,MERGE

    I then got into the 99/8 and MERGE DSK1.MILMRG - that seemed to work just fine.

    SAVE DSK1.MILL34 saved it as INT/VAR 254 as expected.

     

    One thing interesting - your disk image shows different file types if it's in the 99/4A or 99/8 when using Disk Manager 3 to display the directory.  DM2 shows all 4 of your programs as INT/VAR254.

    Here are some screen shots. (Remember, I overwrote MILL34):

    image.thumb.png.779b6736a1468624ac06f6bdf9924a6b.pngimage.thumb.png.8f4c5f0945997e2fc5d43f4d7d32db49.png

     

    The ones with the very odd LRL values displayed on DM3's output produce I/O error 04 when trying to load them.  I suspect there's something odd with how the 99/4A is actually saving these.  MILL31, which I did not touch in any way, loads find on the 99/8.  MILL32 and MILL33 don't.  MILL34 does now because I fixed it by saving it in MERGE format on the 99/4A and then merged it on the 99/8 and saved it again.

     

     

    could you upload the .dsk so I can play with it. I would like to know why those files show something other than 254? I never noticed that using TIDIR.

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  24. Posted

    30 minutes ago, mizapf said:

    Seems as if it's this one: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/exelv.cpp

     

    Scroll down to the end of the file, you see that the COMP declaration has the flag MACHINE_NOT_WORKING. This means that this driver is incomplete; someone has to pick it up and bring it to a working state.

    this gives me a good chance to look at some MAME code. not as complex as I thought but still a lot I don't know.

    But, I see Raphael Nabet was the last one working on it in 2004 or did someone log 13 days ago? looking at the code the stop came with the I/O not having a good ROM dump. So what I gather Raphael created the I/O from the schematic data but had no way to test the unknowns without a good ROM dump? 

  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, Casey said:

    I haven’t tried it yet, but the 99/8 is supposed to be able to “OLD” programs that were LISTed to a device.  Can you do a LIST “DSK1.FILE” on the 99/4A of the INT/VAR program and then OLD it on the 99/8?

    doesn't seem to work. unfortunately, neither does SAVE"DSK1.FILE",MERGE then on the ti99/8 MERGE"DSK1.FILE" it gives an error I/O error 4. doesn't matter size of file just gives error anyway. thing is, we don't know if TI ever intended to be able to transfer XB files seamlessly from the 99/4 to the 99/8?

    @senior_falcon has a sub-program in TML that converts PROGRAM files to IV254 format, the opposite of what we want done. something like that might been needed and maybe it was TIs intention to release such? 

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