atrax27407 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Does anyone know where there is documentation for the TI/Geneve portion of MAME? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 This is typically my domain. I collected some docs on Ninerpedia and on my website on https://www.mizapf.de/en/ti99/mame What exactly are you looking for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 PM coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 Now I'm looking for thr MAME/PC equivalent keystrokes for the TI FCTN keys. Particularly FCTN=. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhataKowinkydink Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Looks like mizapf beat me to it - ninerpedia is a good resource (https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/MAME_TI_emulation_usage) Actually, I was back on trying to get MAME working again yesterday - with a little success - I think the script is correct now, but the roms aren't being seen even though I copied them to the roms folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 You mean the system ROMs or the cartridge ROMs? What is the error message? Like: "994a_rom_hb.u610 NOT FOUND"? If you specify "-rompath <myactualrompath>" in the command line, will it work? (Replace <myactualrompath> with something like F:\mame\roms or /home/user/mame/roms) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, atrax27407 said: Now I'm looking for thr MAME/PC equivalent keystrokes for the TI FCTN keys. Particularly FCTN=. Is this helpful: The actual PC keyboard under this map is a German 105-key keyboard, but you may have similar mappings. Edited September 23, 2020 by mizapf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhataKowinkydink Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 8 hours ago, mizapf said: You mean the system ROMs or the cartridge ROMs? What is the error message? Like: "994a_rom_hb.u610 NOT FOUND"? If you specify "-rompath <myactualrompath>" in the command line, will it work? (Replace <myactualrompath> with something like F:\mame\roms or /home/user/mame/roms) Exactly that sort of message: $ mame-ti.sh 994a_rom_hb.u610 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_4a) 994a_rom_lb.u611 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_4a) 994a_grom0.u500 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_4a) 994a_grom1.u501 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_4a) 994a_grom2.u502 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_4a) cd2325a.u2a NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_speech) cd2326a.u2b NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_speech) pcode_grom0.u11 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) pcode_grom1.u13 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) pcode_grom2.u14 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) pcode_grom3.u16 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) pcode_grom4.u19 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) pcode_grom5.u20 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) pcode_grom6.u21 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) pcode_grom7.u22 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) pcode_rom0.u1 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) pcode_rom1.u18 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_pcode) rs232pio_dsr.u1 NOT FOUND (tried in ti99_4a ti99_rs232) Fatal error: Required files are missing, the machine cannot be run. I just tried out the -rompath option, which seemed to have no affect. Is it possible the roms are, like my scripts, out of date? /usr/share/games/mame/roms$ ll -rw------- 1 root root 26762 Feb 19 2012 ti99_4a.zip -rw------- 1 root root 37582 Apr 4 2011 ti99_4ev.zip -rw------- 1 root root 35863 Feb 19 2012 ti99_4p.zip -rw------- 1 root root 21232 Jul 12 2013 ti99_4qi.zip -rw------- 1 root root 21780 Feb 19 2012 ti99_4.zip -rw------- 1 root root 156345 Dec 11 2013 ti99_8.zip -rw------- 1 root root 7488 Feb 19 2012 ti99_bwg.zip -rw------- 1 root root 4725 Feb 19 2012 ti99_fdc.zip -rw------- 1 root root 6028 Jul 13 2014 ti99_gkracker.zip -rw------- 1 root root 11835 Feb 19 2012 ti99_hfdc.zip -rw------- 1 root root 6107 Feb 19 2012 ti99_myarcmem.zip -rw------- 1 root root 39949 Feb 19 2012 ti99_pcode.zip -rw------- 1 root root 1800 Feb 19 2012 ti99_rs232.zip -rw------- 1 root root 62677 Aug 3 2013 ti99_speech.zip I tried both the system location above and the set of roms in my home folder (in case there was something wrong with having no permissions to the files other than viewing, such above) I feel like it's so close but yet so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Yes, sure, your ROMs have timestamps before 2014. They are outdated. Get a new set from WHTech. This is the reason why I put together this information: https://www.mizapf.de/ti99/mame/changes (Release 0.174 is from 2016) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhataKowinkydink Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 12 minutes ago, mizapf said: Yes, sure, your ROMs have timestamps before 2014. They are outdated. Get a new set from WHTech. This is the reason why I put together this information: https://www.mizapf.de/ti99/mame/changes (Release 0.174 is from 2016) Thank you for the pointers. I'll try those ROMs out shortly. Cool - I've got that page bookmarked now with the other MAME material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhataKowinkydink Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Excellent - I think I've found all I need there on WhTech - including cartridges as I suspect those I have are out of date too (RPKs). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 I know that some people are a bit annoyed that MAME is often changing things so their configuration does not work anymore ... but this is not the case, at least in the perceived way. As you can see on my web page, "disruptive" changes are rare. I only changed the ROM dumps once, with release 0.174. The command line arguments were changed with release 0.186. The single cartridge file support (*g.bin) was already dropped with 0.131. This is a period of 8 years. I can just appeal to everyone's understanding that sometimes you have to change things to get out of a dead end and to reach new goals. None of the changes were done inconsiderately. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhataKowinkydink Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, mizapf said: I can just appeal to everyone's understanding that sometimes you have to change things to get out of a dead end and to reach new goals. None of the changes were done inconsiderately. I can understand that - it's just no fun having your setup broken - especially with some a project as large (and sorta clunky if we are honest) as MAME/MESS, where getting things set up and working has traditionally been notoriously.... convoluted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 (edited) It pays to ask the right person - in this case, the unquestioned authority Michael Zapf. Using the cursor arrow keys (i.e., "<" and ">") toggle between the configurations of both the EVPC and the Horizon. Michael also advised that "Alt" plus the number corresponds to the TI function keys. Now, if there was a way to restrict the BWG to having three drives, my world would be complete. ? Edited September 23, 2020 by atrax27407 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 4 minutes ago, atrax27407 said: Now, if there was a way to restrict the BWG to having three drives, my world would be complete. ? On-screen display, DIP switches, BwG drives. Using the arrow keys, change between "DSK1 only", "DSK1-DSK2", "DSK1-DSK3", "DSK1-DSK4". If you wonder why some settings are found in "Machine configuration", some in "DIP switches": The latter ones are actually DIP switch settings on the controller card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 Ausgezeichnet!! Alles ist in Ordnung! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhataKowinkydink Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 1 minute ago, atrax27407 said: Alles ist in Ordnung! Oddly I can read that.. ... is "Ordnung" = "order"? GoogleTranslate translates it as "Everything is Ok" whereas I read "all is in order". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 I can now take the archived contents of my real iron system and dump them directly into MAME. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 @WhataKowinkydinkI could write long elaborations about how closely related English and German are (without being a linguist). In this case, Ordnung and order are actually descendants of the Latin ordo and not of Germanic origin. If someone decides to study Old English, I'd recommend to add modern German on top; you won't get it cheaper. German actually adopted "O.K." long ago, pronounced in German style, of course. The corresponding term in German is "In Ordnung!". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gferluga Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Where are the MAME DIP switch settings to activate the P-Card? Preferably from command line ;)- Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 DIP switches cannot be activated or deactivated from the command line, unfortunately. But you can set the DIP switch in the OSD menu, and they will keep their states for the next startup. The only problem is that when you run MAME without the P-Card, the switch setting will be lost. However, you can work around that: Normally, the settings are stored in a file ti99_4a.cfg in the cfg directory. In order to keep this file and not get it overwritten, you can set up a special cfg directory (like cfg_pcode) which will serve as config directory only for the TI with P-Code. Create a script/batch file that includes the setting "-cfg_directory cfg_pcode". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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