+arcadeshopper Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 You know, I know what you're saying makes perfect sense... I know the TIPI is awesome, and it is revolutionary and it changes the way you "TI" by doing all kinds of stuff way faster and more efficiently. I have to be honest though... I don't know if I want that kind of convenience. Sounds stupid, I know.... but if I had TIPI, I likely wouldn't have spent 2 hours last night taking a disk controller card apart to swap out EPROMs.... I likely wouldn't be making serial transfer videos or focusing on the best way to catalog floppies to a parallel printer.... These are the things I love to do... and I fear that my TI time would shift to CHATTI and playing 2P games on the TIPI server.... I know there's an amazing new world out there, I just don't know if I'm ready for it. And maybe I'm completely wrong.... but I am just not ready to go there yet. Too much legacy stuff still to do before I need a new experience. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 mmmm, cookies.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 For TIPI owners, can you all please test? I've been experimenting with adding color, how does it look on your systems? I tried to add flood fill, and couldn't get it to behave properly, so deleted it. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonecool Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Is it possible to use PuttY (or any other client) on a PC to connect? I'd like to just check it out before firing up my TI+TIPI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 @jonecool - if you go to the IRATA.ONLINE website, you'll see in the REQ's section, there is a link for PTERM for Windows, Mac, and Linux: http://www.irata.online/ As well as terminals for over a dozen other vintage systems (and counting) -Thom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonecool Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Thank you, sorry I missed that. @jonecool - if you go to the IRATA.ONLINE website, you'll see in the REQ's section, there is a link for PTERM for Windows, Mac, and Linux: http://www.irata.online/ As well as terminals for over a dozen other vintage systems (and counting) -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 16, 2019 Author Share Posted February 16, 2019 No worries! Let me know if I can be of any more help! -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltermixxx Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 At the risk of sounding thick, does this software support the serial port on a V2 NanoPeb? I have one coming in the mail. I'm pretty new to them, a newbie in fact. What would the maximum speed be? (I would be connecting the serial port to an ESP12 device pre MAX232 on the board?) or just build a nice wifi modem and connect it to the NanoPeb via 9 pin serial connection Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 At the risk of sounding thick, does this software support the serial port on a V2 NanoPeb? I have one coming in the mail. I'm pretty new to them, a newbie in fact. What would the maximum speed be? (I would be connecting the serial port to an ESP12 device pre MAX232 on the board?) or just build a nice wifi modem and connect it to the NanoPeb via 9 pin serial connection Cheers. The serial port version DOES NOT WORK YET but he's intending on it supporting the nano and a wifi modem such as you describe. Greg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 16, 2019 Author Share Posted February 16, 2019 I'm trying to support RS232, but am having extreme difficulty finding the cycles to keep checking the RS232 port, and am missing characters. I need to punt for a bit and think of another approach. (the TIPI version works _GREAT_) -Thom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+9640News Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Embed additional calls to the routine to check for characters with something like a BLWP instruction inside the video routines, and maybe even inside of the keyboard scanning routines. Beery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 I was literally putting calls to poll and receive _everywhere_ inside my code, it was nutty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 I have been steadily implementing PLATOTERM. While there are still issues with the RS232 version (it doesn't seem to work outside of TI994W), the TIPI version has been working quite well, and is currently reachable via entering PI.HTTP://TI99.IRATA.ONLINE/PLATOas a filename to CALL TIPI() (or other E/A5 loader), or by using one of your URIx shortcuts (e.g. URI1.PLATO). I have just implemented basic color support, which adds color decoding for the 8 basic PLATO colors: * Black * White * Red * Green * Blue * Cyan * Magenta * Yellow all on black background. 01-notes.PNG 02-notes2.PNG 03-avatar-title.PNG 04-avatar-ingame.PNG 05-moria-title.PNG Due to the quirks of the TMS9918 GRAPHICS II mode, I am not able to successfully add support for background color support. If I can work out a reliable integer-only way to scale down to 0.008 (to scale RGB values down), I will add support for mapping all of the other possible colors to the closest VDP match (again, no background colors, because then any color clash will become _VERY_ apparent.) Stuff I am still working on: * Character Set loading (compiler bugs in relation to unsigned char data types are causing the charset loading code to not work 100% correctly, am trying to work around it) * Keyboard mapping (This is _HARD_... I still have a suggested mapping from arcadeshopper to try and work through), I really want to get this to be as least awkward as possible.... * Preferences (save baud rate, possibly phone book and maybe color/mono toggles) * Get RS232 working on real hardware. Once these are knocked out, I will consider the TI99 version of PLATOTerm feature complete. -Thom I am not sure how I get into this system? I manage to come to the green screen to enter a user name, but then I am stuck. Also not too sure how the key mapping is done (like HELP and NEXT, etc.). BACK seems to be FCTN-9 (but does not work on the black screen) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 The keys are noted here, under PLATO keyboard: https://github.com/tschak909/platoterm99/releases/tag/PLATOTERM99-0.1 NEXT is equivalent to ENTER. -Thom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 The keys are noted here, under PLATO keyboard: https://github.com/tschak909/platoterm99/releases/tag/PLATOTERM99-0.1 NEXT is equivalent to ENTER. -Thom Thank you for the link to the keys. but I am still stuck at the login page. FCTN-H help mentioned that a userid need to be assigned or so? (I just wanted to see if I could get the graphics on the page, tomorrow I am doing a TIPI demo to the Dutch TI-GG-NL group here). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 You can use guest / guest to log in, in lieu of a user id. You can also get one here: http://www.irata.online/ -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodland Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 This is great! It is so nice with the mouse. I have created a keyboard strip: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 ooo, awesome I really need to continue working on that keyboard mapping. -Thom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtludwig Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Sweet, I heard your interview on Antic and wondered if this was an option. I'll check it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 This is great! It is so nice with the mouse. I have created a keyboard strip: TI994A Plato Term 99 Keyboard Strip.PNG Thanks for posting that, it reminded me that I've not yet had a chance to download, install or play with that program yet. Too many opportunities for fun, not enough free time to do it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Well, I downloaded it and put it on my TIPI. I obviously have no idea what I'm doing, all I get is the screen below. Off to look for some documentation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 you are probably running the RS-232 version. If you have a TIPI, simply load it from IRATA.ONLINE's server's directly: CALL TIPI("PI.HTTP://TI99.IRATA.ONLINE/PLATO") -Thom 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 you are probably running the RS-232 version. If you have a TIPI, simply load it from IRATA.ONLINE's server's directly: CALL TIPI("PI.HTTP://TI99.IRATA.ONLINE/PLATO") -Thom Yeah, I figured that out after looking for some documentation and set URI3. up to http://ti99.irata.online and then typed LOAD URI3.PLATO from the command line in 4A/DOS. Damn, this is slick, even has mouse support! I can't wait to get back to this in a few hours. It'll be much easier now that I printed up the keyboard sheet. I'll also edit one of my 4A/DOS BATCH files to load it with the press of a single button. Looking forward to this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 Thank you, so much, for testing. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Thank you, so much, for testing. -Thom No problem, my pleasure. During testing, I noticed the YEAR is displayed as 91, not 19. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.