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    High Score Competition Dec 16: Alpiner

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted

    I am actually wondering how the scoring works:

     

    * I do not see my seconds counting down (sometimes it does when you hit an object or something like that)

    in classic99 (but I saw in the video of Greg that it did not count down as well)

     

    * once you fall down, you need to reach the same point again, before it starts counting points

     

    * If you stay at a certain level on the mountain and move left and right a bit and up then it counts points.

     

    Cannot complete figure out how it works yet (but it looks to me there is a kind of limit in points to score unless you reach the top and move to a next level?)

    There is probably a max. of points to score per mountain?

    High Score Competition (April: Starfort)

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted

    From what I understand women are usually the best Centipede players on average, but for the rest of you guys wanting to save face, might I suggest you click...

     

    <<< HERE >>>

     

     

    Interesting strategies, first of all I cannot hear the sound of spider anymore :-)

    also another strategy, leave 1x of the centipede pieces running at the bottom

    and start to clear the mushrooms. (but new centipede pieces come along so

    shoot them as well)... but this strategy did not work to get the higher scores.

    just shooting and keeping the bottom rows clear and focus on shooting spiders.

     

    I never played it as a kid, did not find it interesting, but with the competition going

    along with it, it is fun and another TIXELS game ;-) (see TIXELS picture at the beginning

    of this thread/forum).

    TI-99 Power Supplies

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted

    Generally, all of the power bricks for the 99/4 and 99/4A are interchangeable. There is one exception: the power supply used with some very early 99/4s that had a DC output instead of an AC output. That power supply will only work with the consoles with the slide switch for volume control and a speaker above the cartridge port. The were only made for a couple of months in late 1979 and early 1980. It is also a HUGE brick of a power supply. . .and not at all common.

     

    Ksarul helped me with it to sort it out (for the very early /4) via a person I got his (broken) spare one, then fixed it with fuses and blew it up again

    (and now I think it is better to replace the whole PSU, maybe can replace it inside the shoe-shape cover), but I am hardly at home last months

    to play with my real-iron TI. Do not look for a while and whole TI-99/4A Atari Age is filled up with all kind of new stuff, hard to catch-up, love it!

    Help with retropie and ti99/4a

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted

     

    I'm sorry my video is not more informative but hopefully, it was helpful in some small way. I was just happy to get it functioning. I had to work through many problems and by this point (several months later), I have forgotten most of them. I think it's a defence mechanism aginst madness. : )

     

    Hi MurdockScott, every video is useful, there is so much going on in the TI-community that it easy to forget the steps. In the mean time I have spoken to Marc Rousseau the creator of

    TI-99/Sim and he is okay to have it in the image (without the ROMS/GROMS/Cartridges), I am following up with the RetroPie team if they are also okay with it, then we maybe can share

    the installed image (I have tested it on a 8 Gb SD card and able to compress it to around 950Mb), that will save everybody the installation steps and the only item to do is to move the

    console groms/roms and cartridges to the retropie, similar as for the other systems, like Atari, Videopac, etc.

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    High Score Competition (April: Starfort)

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted

    Spot Shot (= DragonFly) on the RetroPie

    (as the .bin need to be converted for the RetroPie and TI-99/Sim) and for the persons who want to play on this device:

    http://www.globeron.com/freedownload/services/TI99/TI-99-Sim-Installation-on-RaspberryPI2ModelB-RetroPieV381-DocV2.pdf

     

     

    Convert:

    To convert the file (via Secure Shell and in Super User mode on the command line):

     

    cd /home/pi/ti99sim-0.14.0/bin

     

    convert-ctg --379 /home/pi/temp/dragonflyer.bin​

    (you can get the dragonflyer.bin from FTP Whtech, see a few postings before)

     

    cp dragonflyer.ctg /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ti99sim/​

     

    Now it will appear in the RetroPie TI-99/4A selection menu and will load correctly in TI-99/Sim.

    TI replacement power supply

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted · Edited by globeron

    I was wondering if it makes sense to find a replacement power adapter (as these special adapters are not easy to find)

    (note: this is the one with the big plug, even for /4 systems there are different adapters).

     

    I managed to obtain a broken one, then replaced fuses and it worked for a while, then the smoke came out, replaced that

    component and then broke it again and it seems the whole trafo need to be replaced), see pictures:

    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y3kjbw4wzh7ilna/AAARBl0ltQbV2jRb0RXcA5Tba?dl=0​

     

    Was wondering with one of the meanwell or similar, to have a new one, but put it still in the "Shoe" housing if it is small enough.

     

    (I think it would be safer as well, before we get fire in the house)

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    Transferring TI floppy images to PC?

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted

     

    Hmm can you tell the other TI Computer to run a game?

    Can you tell the other TI Computer to edit a program then run that program?

    Can you tell the other TI Computer to Load, Save, Merge and List that program to another TI Computer.

     

    Example:

    Open #1:"RS232/1" to first TI Computer

    Open #2:"RS232/2" to second TI Computer

    Open #2:"PIO' to third TI Computer

     

    So one TI Computer is remote controlling 3 other TI Computers. And get this each of those TI Computers can CONTROL other TI Computers!!!!

    Of course all have to have the RXB Cartridge loaded to pull this off.

     

    Hi Rich,

    I see, no I have not heard of that before, that is pretty cool!

     

    (Remote Desktop Protocol - RDP for TI-99/4A), but with so many computers/concurrent connections

    it is the internet for TI-99/4A or a cloud computer.

     

    (it means you actually can create an RXB-TI-99/4A cloud computer, by keeping TI-99/4As connected to each other)

    or if you have more RS232 cards /3 and /4 available, basically 5 (or maybe 6 with 2x PIO ports) available per TI,

    (unfortunately I do not have so many real TI's here).

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    High Score Competition (April: Starfort)

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted

    (I have not tried it on the real TI-99/4A, because my kid took my LCD-screen).

     

    I think the trick is to create a "line of sight" to shoot the insects all the way at the right of the screen (higher points)

    and also the Dragon Fly you can pull it back to the left (so that insects can pass by up to a max of 4).

    Transferring TI floppy images to PC?

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted · Edited by globeron

    By the way no else as far as I can tell has ever dreamed of a TI REMOTE CONTROL procedure for the TI99/4A before have they?

     

    Transfer of files yes! Remote Control.....NO!

     

    (not sure if it is remote control), but the VDM99 with the Hook program, looks like remote control to me,

    from the PC I can control the disk drives to transfer it. (but I have not tried your program yet !)

    Help with retropie and ti99/4a

    in TI-99/4A Computers

    Posted

    (I hope that Friday evening I can set some time apart to update the installation procedure based on the latest RetroPie image as they also changed something.

     

    See furthermore a discussion with the developers of the RetroPie as I asked them to include the TI99SIM (under the condition that they have approval from

    Marc Rousseau who created the TI99SIM). I hope it can be included. Then only ROMS/GROMS/BINs need to be transferred ("FTP-ed") to the RetroPie and

    should be good to go. They want to keep the image small for distribution.

     

    https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1523#issuecomment-225443650
    ​https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/TI99​

     

    I am not sure how to make a small image after everything is installed, because my SD-card is 8 Gb (and I can do a disk-image)

    that worked, we tested it with someone else who could not get it to work that time, but I need to upload the image, which takes a

    few hours (and for the other person it took 5 hours to download it). If someone has a better idea, mechanism would be good.

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