Tursi Posted July 23, 2021 Author Share Posted July 23, 2021 Don't discard context when you're reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 (edited) Yes of course. Ok. Diagonals work in things like A-Maze-Ing and the Diagnostics cart. Both with keyboard and usb gamepad. So the emulation is ok. And PARSEC is the issue. Sorry about the dust-up. It's been decades since I even seen a real Ti-99/4A. Additionally I remember when emulators barely got their target CPU going, with no sound and no controller inputs/simulation. It was so common to instantly have to test on real hardware and doubt the emu. In the mid-1990's.. So here it seems Parsec is at fault. I guess BITD we thought nothing of it.. Carry on! Edited July 23, 2021 by Keatah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 15 hours ago, Tursi said: Yes, though the old speech code was MAME's too! I never had enough interest in the hardware to do it myself. Means Michael Zapf finally has a credit in Classic99. Not without a bit of pride. But keep in mind, I only had a minor part in the speech synthesis emulation. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted July 23, 2021 Author Share Posted July 23, 2021 18 hours ago, Keatah said: Sorry about the dust-up. It's been decades since I even seen a real Ti-99/4A. Additionally I remember when emulators barely got their target CPU going, with no sound and no controller inputs/simulation. It was so common to instantly have to test on real hardware and doubt the emu. In the mid-1990's.. So here it seems Parsec is at fault. I guess BITD we thought nothing of it.. No worries. I test against real hardware any time I have a question - there is a LOT in Classic99 that came from study of the real machine, and I will note that Classic99 got at least one or two things right before the others did (big wink, come on, with the number of releases it's just the law of averages.) If you ever browse the source, you'll see "verified on hardware" in a few places - those are all tests that I personally did. There are also large blocks of text in places where theory or public documentation came into question. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenorton Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 BTW, since the speech sounds so good, I was talking with Leo Laport on his show about Windows 11 accessibility, and I told him I had a blast from the past to tell him about. I let him hear Classic99 say "you're listening to Leo Laport, the tech guy" using the TE2 text-to-speech. Didn't get a chance to say as much as I wanted, though. He called the sound on the TI primitive, which, compared with today's tech, is true, but, the TI had better sound than many other microcomputers of its day. Try getting an Apple II or IBM PC to do what the TI could do. But, I did mention the Web site where I got the emulator.BTW, with the last update, I was speaking with Leo Laport, on his show, and I gave him a quick sample of the TE2 text-to-speech as produced by Classic99. Didn't get a good chance to say much, but, I mentioned where I got the emulator from. He called the sound on the TI primitive, which, compared with today's tech, is true, but, I wish I had thought to say that the sound on the TI was, for its time, better than sound that came with many microcomputers at the time. Try getting an Apple II or IBM PC to do what the TI could do, out of the box. I 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 I had heard that during the showing of an apple presentation that it was supposed to say hi instead they had to simulate the speech because of a flaw. Don't know if that was earlier than ti but maybe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Creating good speech with the TI's speech chips was hard. I think most programmers in the late 80's jumped on the digitize a speech stream and playback - ala the DigiPort sound system from Western Horizon Technology (WHT). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 22 hours ago, jenorton said: BTW, since the speech sounds so good, I was talking with Leo Laport on his show about Windows 11 accessibility, and I told him I had a blast from the past to tell him about. I let him hear Classic99 say "you're listening to Leo Laport, the tech guy" using the TE2 text-to-speech. Didn't get a chance to say as much as I wanted, though. He called the sound on the TI primitive, which, compared with today's tech, is true, but, the TI had better sound than many other microcomputers of its day. Try getting an Apple II or IBM PC to do what the TI could do. But, I did mention the Web site where I got the emulator. Ah, cute! I met Leo back in the day - he had posted some kind words about my SCWebCam program, so I actually went to a recording of his show, and we got to chat a bit between segments. He mentioned me on the air that day: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 He seems like a nice enough guy, I just wish so many PHBs would stop bringing his ideas into the enterprise. This whole shadow IT crap kills me. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1980gamer Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 I watched the screen savers from episode 1. I was bummed when the NEW Screensavers left TWIT.TV Tursi, the speech works great! Parsec controls as intended. You can thrust or I guess reverse thrust?? and the ships momentum as mentioned before delta lets you do diagonals. You can pass the X-mite ships! It is hard to get past the second one! Or refuel backwards in the tunnel... I never even noticed that diagonals didn't work! LOL Like intellivision. I was so used to using the DISC and Keypad together, I didn't realize you could only use one at a time. I just did it by instinct. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Is there a special trick to using "Start Recording Video"? Yes - I did look at the manual, though I might have read over something. Every time I try, I get a window with the heading: Classic99 Error and the text: Can't Open AVI File Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted August 7, 2021 Author Share Posted August 7, 2021 -2137205009 is 0x7ffBBF91. Can't seem to find this error code. But the most likely cause is that you have selected a codec which is incompatible with the internal video format that Classic99 uses. Over the years, I've found it harder and harder to find a setting that works. Recording video from inside Classic99 is deprecated and won't get any further development. It never worked well and it has been superseded in a big way by external recording programs. I myself have used Open Broadcaster Software for the last 15 years or so (https://obsproject.com/). Windows 10 also has built-in recording that I'm told works fairly well (Windows-G, but beyond that first keypress I've not used it). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Yea same as Tursi I use OBS too. I have put over 100 videos using it for screen capture of Desktop or you can window it to Classic99 or games. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Classic99 bests CS1er working with a sampled program tape and becomes another tool in my conversion and recovery repertoire. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted September 24, 2021 Author Share Posted September 24, 2021 Just a quickie update... Classic99 399.052 - enhanced joystick configuration in config file - added background noise emulation (enable in options->audio, sounds best at 44100hz) Matt and I were talking and it inspired me. I finally implemented the background noise, and I think it's mostly right... if I nailed it correctly, the noise is generated mostly by the CRU keyboard scan, with a bit of VDP interrupt pin for good measure. It definitely sounds close enough, though I'm sure there are some other noise sources, but it reproduces the sound that I remember most. http://harmlesslion.com/software/classic99 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Tursi said: - added background noise emulation Congratulations! ...even more annoying than the real thing. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 19 minutes ago, Tursi said: Just a quickie update... Classic99 399.052 - enhanced joystick configuration in config file - added background noise emulation (enable in options->audio, sounds best at 44100hz) Matt and I were talking and it inspired me. I finally implemented the background noise, and I think it's mostly right... if I nailed it correctly, the noise is generated mostly by the CRU keyboard scan, with a bit of VDP interrupt pin for good measure. It definitely sounds close enough, though I'm sure there are some other noise sources, but it reproduces the sound that I remember most. http://harmlesslion.com/software/classic99 By background noise you mean the humming i can hear sometimes when typing, feeding back through my tv speakers? I also hear a similar noise when playing the game "Who's Behind The Mexican UFO's?", while it draws the screens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 (edited) When enabling/disabling the background noise, the debugger window opens. Also, is there a way to make the debugger window hide under the main emulation window? Seems to always be on top. Edited September 24, 2021 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted September 24, 2021 Author Share Posted September 24, 2021 31 minutes ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: Congratulations! ...even more annoying than the real thing. I said that was the only noise I was interested in 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted September 24, 2021 Author Share Posted September 24, 2021 17 minutes ago, Keatah said: When enabling/disabling the background noise, the debugger window opens. Also, is there a way to make the debugger window hide under the main emulation window? Seems to always be on top. That first would be a bug. The second would defeat the purpose, so no. Just close it for now 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 Forgive me, sometimes I can be a little slow...? 2 hours ago, Tursi said: I said that was the only noise I was interested in Was this an inference to my beloved CS1 SOUND??? ...Still waiting...⏳ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 This is great I do remember my TI would make a particularly louder fuzzy noise when the screen had lots of white characters on a black background. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted September 25, 2021 Author Share Posted September 25, 2021 5 hours ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: Forgive me, sometimes I can be a little slow...? Was this an inference to my beloved CS1 SOUND??? ...Still waiting...⏳ CS1 plays sound! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted September 25, 2021 Author Share Posted September 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Retrospect said: This is great I do remember my TI would make a particularly louder fuzzy noise when the screen had lots of white characters on a black background. That's RF. I never noticed such a sound when using a monitor. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabrice montupet Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 This background noise emulation is a good idea and really realistic, thank you! Do you plan to add a TV filter mode that has just the horizontal lines (so without the NTSC blurring colors). It would be great for the EU 99/4A users ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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