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  1. 7 hours ago, dgrissom said:

    It runs best from a FinalGrom99 Extended BASIC or actual TI Extended BASIC Cart.

    Yup! That's what I'm using. Thanks for tweaking this! You're amazing! For the first time since 1985 I'm able to see my program work again!

     

    I'll definitely check out the Zoom meetings. I'm really getting a kick out of using the TI again after all these years.

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  2. 11 hours ago, jedimatt42 said:

    The last thing I see in the /var/log/tipi/tipi.log is it reads records 0-5 of TOOLS/WS/LD, which appears to be an assembly object file.   DE appears to be assembly code as well. the Display Enhancement package from Oak Tree Systems. LD has a 'LOAD' function it defines that it passes a record for DE to... The machinations that things went through is amazing... 

    I remember that it took several months to get the first version working smoothly. I don't even understand a lot of the coding now.

     

    Thank you so much for looking into this, Matt!

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  3. 17 minutes ago, dgrissom said:

    I am testing it.  It runs fine on Classic99.  (BTW, Nice looking program.)

    Yes! Works for me in Classic99 as well. I thought it would be very cool to see it run on a real TI again. That's what led me to buy one, add a FinalGROM, and then the TIPI/32k. And thanks for the prop! I designed the font used throughout. I think that's primarily what makes it look good.

     

    Now if I could only figure out this problem.

     

    Thank you for giving it a whirl!

  4. Here's the program I'm trying to run. I wrote it in 1984. The Italian TI-99 user group posted it recently with screen captures showing it running successfully.

     

    I've mapped DSK1 to TOOLS.WS, where I copied the folder containing the files, so the calls to DSK1 in the program will be able to find the other files needed to run it. (At least I believe this is the correct thing to do.) But it always crashes on line 220.

    WS.zip

  5. Newbie again! I now understand the directory, disk, and device structures and am successfully able to copy files to and from the TIPI. But most of the XB programs crash with file errors and when I list them I'm finding that spaces are being inserted here and there, causing the program to crash. For example: OPEN #1:"DSK1.DE",INPUT,VARIABLE 254 becomes OPEN #1:"DSK.DE",INPUT ,VARIABLE 254 (space inserted after INPUT). I can rekey these lines and get the programs to run successfully, but this can't be right. What's going on here?

  6. 3 minutes ago, 9640News said:

    Several different ways to skin the cat, you use the one that works best for you and the tools at hand.

    I'm still feeling it out, but getting more familiar with it. I do have TIDIR. But I have no Windows computers here. Just Macs and an HP Notebook running Linux Mint. I'm running TIDIR in DOSBox-X in Linux. It's a little strange, but it does work!

     

    After JediMatt's excellent info, I think I'll just be using the TIPI.DIRECTORY.PROGRAM method of loading programs on the TI. It does make a lot more sense than the DSKx method.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, arcadeshopper said:

    did you watch this video? look at this faq?

    I think I've watched every YouTube video there is on the TIPI. Maybe that's the problem. I need to take my time and absorb it all. But I just had a breakthrough, thanks to JediMatt, so I'm further on than I was before! My old brain matter isn't as absorbent as it used to be!

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  8. Just got my TIPI! It's so impressive! And it's so confusing. I wish there was a full user's manual. I've looked all through the wiki and can't find an answer to my first problem:

     

    I connected to my wifi and set up my drive mappings in TIPICFG (ver. 2.26, CRUBASE 1100). But they don't show up when I look at My TIPI in my Linux browser. All I ever see are the NET and TMOUSE directories and two files, TIPICFG and TIPICFH, even after rebooting the PI and refreshing the file list in the browser.

  9. 16 minutes ago, wierd_w said:

    What I mean, is that there is a compiler for TI Basic and TI XB programs that converts them into machine-code programs.

    Once converted, they can be turned from a memory image into a cartridge image, using Classic99 and some elbow-grease.

     

    The compiler has some requirements, in that it cannot handle programs that call routines from disk. (at least I think that it is a requirement that the program be fully one-file)  If your program was revised to instead contain lots of subroutines within a single file, it might be possible to feed it through the compiler, and get a suitable machine-code program, which can be mangled into a cartridge image.

     

    Thanks for this info! Eventually I think I'll get back in the swing of things and will again learn how to do all these arcane procedures.

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  10. 13 minutes ago, Lee Stewart said:

     

    I am also old (78) and it took me a few beats before I got it, as well. I am caught sleeping around here every now and again. |:)  Welcome aboard the Good Ship. ?

    Thank you, Lee! I just turned 69 (but don't feel it). I'm retired, but still do part-time typesetting and book pagination now and then. After looking around for a few years I finally found a very affordable TI with Speech and a handful of carts on ebay last month and have been having a very nostalgic blast fiddling around with it. Added 32k, Atari joysticks, and a FinalGROM recently. Several years ago I ran across my Wordsmith disk file--on a Russian website of all places--and that's what spurred me on to get back into the TI world. With help from you and others here I can at least read the XB files I created 40 years ago, and eventually--with the addition of a TIPI--I just might be able to run it again.

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  11. 42 minutes ago, wierd_w said:

    How byzantine is this XB program?  Would it be possible to make it into a single XB program file with lots of subroutines instead?  If so, it might be convinced to go through the compiler, and thus be able to be made into a module?

     

     

    Well, thanks to HOME AUTOMATION I was able to retrieve all the parts of the .DSK file: XB and Assembly routines. Very interesting! When I add a TIPI to my system I should be able to run it again after all these years.

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  12. Just now, Lee Stewart said:

     

    At the risk of being a RPITA, “Combat Commando”, “Stargunner”, “River Patroller”, “Quadrunner”, etc. are rank descriptions based on number of posts. Each poster’s name or handle appears as the first word in the post header. Mine, for instance, is my name, “Lee Stewart”. ?

     

    ...lee

    Oh, geez! I'm old AND a newbie! Thanks for the heads-up!

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  13. 16 hours ago, arcadeshopper said:

    First create a new directory(Commands).

    Open the new directory in the right pane.

    Select your .DSK, file in the left pane.

    Choose Convert PC99-DSK IMAGE to V9T9-DSK image(Tools).

    Thank you! Thank you, Quadrunner (and sorry for getting your name wrong before)! This did the trick! Well, not that it created a .BIN file, but it did extract all the XB and text parts, so I can finally see the program I created 40 years ago. I just might get it to run again when I add a TIPI to my system (thanks for the recommendations, EVERYONE!). I'm indebted to a lot of people in this forum who share their advice and knowledge, making it easier for me to get back into this crazy hobby again.

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