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  2. Posted

    Many thanks!

     

    I presume these are from US releases as I still have some carts & boxes/instructions (UK versions) & the instructions manuals that I've checked (A-Mazing / The Attack) are different.

    (Much less info on the UK ones and a different front image).

  3. Posted

    Hello, just to say, the folder that I put up has been compiled by Ciro Biralle of the Italian Ti99 club ... he's worked extensively hard lately, in getting all the images of the scans and the files together, I forgot to credit him when I uploaded the folder to here, which was unfair to Ciro.

     

    I for one love the things that he does. He helps to preserve the games for the TI, from all over the place, even the Uk :)

    He's done a great job of the scans & getting the games to work! (Never thought I'd be playing Santa & The Goblins again!).

    He had some of mine (most in the pic above) so Mania is there as well - hopefully won't be too long before the full scanned copy goes up :)

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  4. Posted

    I have got a copy of Mania (adventuremania II) from intrigue and i am in the process of taking screenshots of the games code, my Ti keeps crashing when it gets warm, so that i can type it into an emulator (win994a). Just need to work out how to add an attachment to a post.

    So Mania is Adventuremania II then?

    (Pic near top right)

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    I remember getting my copy from a bootsale back in the day.

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  10. Posted · Edited by RenegadeG1

    Ok, still not had much luck so far.

     

    What I've done though is upload the files I've ripped so far, incase anyone else has any luck.

     

    The following games:

     

    Wargame (good to test as we know this works).

    Santa & The Goblins

    Lionel & The Ladders (UK)

    Roady Toad

    Taxi

     

    Each wav has several versions :

     

    Original rip (just as it is).

    Cleaned up.

    Amp'd Up (Using the cleaned up wav, some compression & eq).

    Amp'd Up2 (Using the amp'd up wav & pushing it way into the 'red).

     

    Link (This will last for 2 weeks) :

     

    http://we.tl/szqErMRmP5

     

    If anyone has any luck & can convert them to .dsk files, please upload them for everyone to enjoy :)

     

    Cheers.

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  11. Posted

    Have you tried WARGAME? I was able to read it on the first try, so this should be possible for you without problems, since the WAV file always plays in the same way. You can lower sound channel 2 to 0, but I think this is only relevant for listening to the data, not for the recognition.

    Just tried - the mono version I did didn't, but the stereo one did (it played it back slower than usual).

    Will do some more tests with some stereo files instead ;)

    Cheers.

  12. Posted

     

    MESS is a subproject of MAME; it uses the same core system. Or, if you like, the MAME engine is used to drive all the computer systems of MESS in the way it does with the arcade machines. It is not related to Gamebase or Classic99. About a year ago, the codebase of MESS was integrated into the MAME source tree.

     

    This is the current list of emulated systems: http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/sysset.php

    (1060 systems, with another 1116 clones)

     

    If you have some experience with MAME, you may find MESS less difficult to work with.

     

    1. Download a recent copy from http://mamedev.org/
    2. Get the system ROMs from ftp.whtech.com (subdirectory /emulators/mess/roms). Unpack the archive file into the ROMpath.
    3. If you don't use a front-end like QMC2, create a mess.ini file by starting mess with option -createconfig
    4. Check the paths and video settings in mess.ini. For Linux you should choose opengl video mode; for Windows use directx. Also, I'd recommend to use windowed mode, no maximized window, and a size of 640x480.
    5. If all is properly set up, you should be able to launch the TI emulation as driver name ti99_4a (e.g. "mess ti99_4a").
    6. Different to MAME, in MESS you have to switch between two keyboard modes in order to control the emulator, because the computer system emulation usually needs all the keys on the keyboard. The default for switching between the modes is ScrollLock. If you don't have that key you can set another one in mess.ini. Have a look at my description on ninerpedia.
    7. In partial mode, press TAB. You should get the on-screen display menu (OSD menu). In that menu you can find "Tape control" with menu items for rewind, stop, start, record. As I mentioned above, for some unknown reason, the tape is output on both sound streams, with one stream shifted. If that bothers you, use the volume setting in "Slider controls" in the OSD menu to mute the second channel.
    8. In full mode, go to TI BASIC as you know from the real TI.
    9. In BASIC, type OLD CS1. Switch to partial mode in order to open the OSD menu, go to "Tape control", check whether the tape is rewound
    10. Exit the OSD menu, toggle to full keyboard mode, press ENTER. The computer tells you to press play.
    11. Again, toggle to partial mode, open the OSD menu, go to "Tape control", select "play". Nothing happens because the cassette motor is inactive.
    12. Go back to TI BASIC. Press ENTER, and the motor starts. You should then hear the tape data.
    13. Since you want to save your data to floppy disk, you should prepare a blank disk. You can do this with various tools, either TI99Dir or TIImageTool.
    14. So either you use the OSD menu to insert that floppy disk now, or you should start MESS in step 5 with the inserted floppy. However, do not forget to specify a disk controller, or you won't be able to access the disk. You can specify a floppy controller e.g. by adding the options "-peb:slot8 hfdc". If you want to start MESS with an inserted disk, you should add "-flop1" and the file name of your disk.
    15. If all has gone well, you can now do a SAVE DSK1.xxxx with xxxx being the program name.

     

    Did I forget anything? :)

    Hi,

     

    Had a quick go just now - got as far as starting the tape playing so you can hear the sound & getting the OLD CS1 to listen, but after about 20 secs it just says "No Data Found" - as though it can't hear the data coming in.

     

    (Adding the wav file to the Tape 1 bit in the file menu, rewinding the tape etc & playing after hitting Enter after Old cs1).

     

    I've tried amping it right up, normal volume, but so far nothing is getting it to read.

     

    Did I miss something??

     

    I've not tinkered with a Dsk controller yet - just wanted to see if it would load up.

     

    I've also added around 6 seconds of space at the start as before, it was starting to play a good few seconds into it.

  13. Posted · Edited by RenegadeG1

    Anything by Gamesware/Sceptre in your collection of UK stuff?

    It's mainly items on the pic I posted. There are a couple of other tapes - and some carts.

    I'm sure there is another box of bits as haven't found the tape deck / joystick, so might be a few other tapes - I know I had both mania & adventure mania, but only found one so far. There won't be a lot more though, aside from things typed in from home computing weekly & recorded to tape.

     

    I mainly tinkered myself making stuff - nothing too fancy - mainly using extended basic making 'collision detection' style games. One was based on Starfleet (old puppet style 80s tv show) - you had to fly the ship across the screen avoiding everything else. Made a few like that.

    If these conversions work on the proper games, will see if I can dig those tapes out.

  14. Posted

    I'd guess the EASIEST way would be to record them as WAV files, test them by loading the WAV into a Ti-99, (if you have one), then ZIP or RAR them and then place them somewhere on the Internet publishing links here to download them. You can then sit back and let the generous Ti community here on AtariAge do the conversions for you.

     

    Another alternative is to post them off to someone with past experience of archiving Ti software.

     

    Anything by Gamesware/Sceptre in your collection of UK stuff?

    That's basically what I've done - recorded a few wav files, removed the background noise, eq'd them a bit & uploaded them.

    PM'd a couple of people the links.

    Got the Wargame one back - see above.

     

    When I get a chance, will get the other games uploaded that aren't in the gamesbase - I've noticed some are (Crazy Caver / Hunchback / Cars & Carcasses II), so won't bother recording those ones.

     

    I do have the TI still, but didn't find the tape deck - just the machine, some carts, speech synth & a large PSU :)

  17. Posted

    No, they all finished just after 7pm, there was a slection of stuff from Apex and Virgin.

    The main ones I have (Tapes anyway) are the ones I took a pic of, so don't think I had any that would have been on that auction.

     

    I did find a load of other tapes - possibly with some games from Home Computing Weekly on them, but they may have been taped over with other stuff over the years.

    Also got a few bits (if they haven't been taped over) or some bits I made in extended basic - nothing fancy, but if someone can show me how this tape/MESS conversion thing works, might try to convert those as well.

  18. Posted

     

    That one's like a stab in my heart. ;)

     

    MAME is the multi-arcade machine emulator, MESS is a subproject of MAME (Multi Emulator Super System) with hundreds of emulated systems, a few of them being our TI-99 family (TI-99/4, 4A, 8, Geneve), which I am in charge of. We have collected a lot of information on MESS on www.ninerpedia.org.

     

    For your plans you don't need to dive too deep into MESS for now; I'd suggest you use an installation wizard like the one written by schmitzi.

     

    :) - I've used Mame (for many years) and have lots of other emulators for old systems I've had over the years (Atari 2600, speccy, C64, Amiga, Nes etc).

    Never heard of MESS though.

    Is this part of the gamebase program, or the Classic99 emulator?

  20. Posted

    WarGame and Santa and the Goblins sound pretty interesting. :)

    Wargame is a good strategy game.

     

    Player 1

    Keys : W, E, R, S, D, Z, X To Move.

    Q To Fire

     

    Player 2

    U, I, O, J, K, N, M, < To Move

    Y To Fire.

     

    Depending on the terrain you're on will affect how far you can move per turn & how far/well you can fire.

    Used to spend hours playing this one.

     

    Cheers to Mizapf for converting that one.

     

    If anyone can tell me what this MESS is and how you use it, I'll give it a go this end - as long as it can all be done on the PC.

    The TI hardware is all packed away.

  21. Posted

    I've recorded 3 files so far to test (Wav - stereo & mono files of each) - if anyone is able to convert them to something which will load in the Gamebase, please let me know & I'll PM you the files.

    So far I've recorded :

     

    Roady Toad (frogger)

    Draughts (Flip to frogger - not sure if by the same author, or if it's something else that was recorded on the tape - I think it's the same author).

    Wargame

     

    If these all work out ok, I'll record the others.

     

    Cheers.

  22. Posted

    I should be able to clean up any recordings - audio tinkering is one of my 'things' :)

     

    The TI I had only ever had a cassette deck, and only other main bits of hardware I had were a speech synthesizer & Ext Basic (as well as several game carts).

    The game carts seem to be on the gamesbase, so was more interested in getting these games available.

     

    If it looks like this is possible & people have the necessary tools/hardware to tinker with the wav recordings, I'll happily upload them once I've recorded them.

     

    I did notice my Santa & The Goblins tape looks different to images I've found online - it was bought in a shop, so hoping it's not a copy!

  23. Posted

    Hi there,

     

    Found this site & another last week & installed the gamesbase that was kindly uploaded.

    Some good memories came back from the old games I used to play as a kid, but there were some missing.

     

    I've just found these in my parents loft - on tape - wondered if anyone on here knows how to convert these to use within the gamesbase?

     

    I should have a tape deck in order to record the tapes to the pc and save as wav files, but not sure where to go from there.

     

    Games I didn't find on the database which I have:

     

    Lionel & The Ladders (UK version).

    Santa & The Goblins (Intrigue).

    Wargame (Made by someone in Harlow I believe - remember going to their house to buy it :) ).

    Roady Toad (Made by my then local ice cream man!).

     

    Also got a few others, but these may already been in the database.

     

    If anyone has a way to convert, then I'll dig out my tape deck and get them recorded.

    (Presuming the tapes still work after all these years!).

     

    Image Attached.

     

    Thanks.

     

     

     

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