mnielsenau

Not wanting to discount the great work that @mizapf is doing on the 99/8 Mame emulation side... However would it be possible to look at the MiSTer as a possible "hardware" target for both 99/8 and possibly Geneve given that we have the circuit diagrams for those machines? I am not a coder, but I am really enjoying the TI-99/4A cores that @Flandango and others are working on at the moment, and to have an FPGA implementation of both of these machines would truly be awesome from my perspective. Just a thought...

@arcadeshopper and @Flandango thanks for the responses. Using Paged378 I got Force Command to work under the core. Thanks so much for the help and the great work on the core. It really is a thing of beauty ?

Quick (hopefully not silly....) question - I have been trying to load Force Command 1.32 under this new core and am not having any success. Have tried using the .M99 and ROM and GROM selections in the core and I can't seem to get it to load. Not sure what I am doing wrong or if Force Command can't be used with this core at the moment. Any help would be great! Cheers

Unfortunately not, I am in Australia but my surname is originally from Denmark.

Hi Schmitzi, Thanks for that. It definitely worked with a standard TI Configuration IE: TI-99/4A with 32K and Corcomp FDC, but seemed to have some sort of weird compatibility issues when used with either an EVP or as SNUG 4P configuration. Not sure what is going on but will do some more testing to see if I can get to the bottom of it. Thanks again for posting the disk - really appreciate it! Cheers, Mark.

Hey Guys, I have been playing around with MAME recently specifically with the Corcomp FDC and I tried to find a copy of the Corpcomp Disk Manager software that came with the card and also the Micro 9900 systems back in the day. If anyone has a copy of the .DSK file and is prepared to share it would be much appreciated. Thanks for your help Cheers, Mark.

Hi Michael Thanks for your response. Yes the ROMS/GROMS were distributed with PC99 but I think they were also used in the Zeno board as well from memory. Based on how they are loaded by MAME then I think the standard way won't work but as Beery mentioned some sort of emulated GRAM device might work. I will add the GramKracker header to the GROMS and try it with the HSGPL under MAME and see how it goes over the weekend. Will let you know how it goes. Cheers. Mark.

I know that the Gramulator could use the extra space but not sure about GramKracker. The SNUG HSGPL may also allow the extra space. I checked the ROMS and they are unchanged from the console ROMS so its only the GROMS that I need to load.

Hey guys, Back in the day I purchased a copy of PC99 from CADD Industries and had played around with it extensively back then. One of the things I really liked was being able to use the OPA ROM/GROM set in PC99 as it had that great startup screen to do disk catalogs as well as start the modules. As I said I have a legitimate copy of the ROM/GROMS and wonder is there any way of converting them to work in MAME? I have played around and successfully split the ROM file into HIGH byte and LOW byte format which MAME requires and called them all the right names in the .ZIP archive. I know that the GROMS are 8K instead of the usual 6K and MAME complains about the length discrepancy and this may be the stumbling block right there.... If someone knows how to convert them and using them in MAME it would be appreciated. Cheers, Mark.

Is it just me or is the disk emulation broken on this build? I am unable to get a disk image to load on either DSK1 or DSK2 at this stage....

Call me stupid, but I have become quite fond of the beige console recently.... I have both but have been using the beige one more lately and am enjoying it immensely. Just sayin

@Hawkangel The TI-99/4 & the 4A were both released in Australia, and I used to work for one of the computer stores in Sydney (ComputerWave in the city) that sold a boat load of them when the unit was discontinued. I was a member of the TISHUG group for quite a few years and still love looking back at those old newsletters with some fond memories of a simpler time.... As @Ksarul mentioned, the Aussie groups were very resourceful and created lots from both a hardware (Horizon RAMdisk Clone) and software (Funnelweb) for example. I am so happy that even though there is not much happening now from an Aussie perspective, that the rest of the community worldwide has never really slowed down. I think this a testament to the resourcefulness and the resilience of the TI community and the love for our little orphan computer... Cheers, mnielsenau

@pixelpedant Thanks for that I must admit I didn't realize that the OSSC had a VGA input... doh. BTW I love your YouTube videos and your sense of humor in them. As a sarcastic Aussie I really get your humor....

@pixelpedant I just wanted to check that you are using an OSSC with the F18A? If so is there a specific VGA to SCART cable that you are using?

Thanks for that - Guess I should have read the TIPI/32K WIKI a little more closely.....