hloberg #1 Posted January 3 (edited) found the manual to the Forti sound card. can't find the disk that is supposed to come with it. anyone got one as a .dsk? also, does anyone actually own one and used it? and have anyone made some music disk. I'm adding a music section to TI99resources and want to add this and the sidmaster. Edited January 3 by hloberg 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Lee Stewart #2 Posted January 3 7 minutes ago, hloberg said: found the manual to the Forti sound card. can't find the disk that is supposed to come with it. anyone got one as a .dsk? also, does anyone actually own one and used it? and have anyone made some music disk. I'm adding a music section to TI99resources and want to add this and the sidmaster. @FarmerPotato knows: May the FORTH Musical offering - FORTI Decompiled FIXED: RESET repeats inFORTI-2 interface FORTi Music Card (software wanted) ...lee 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+mizapf #3 Posted January 3 if there is an original (working) disk, I'd also be interested. I emulated the card in MAME, but could not thoroughly test it because the only disk that looked like the original disk was broken. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hloberg #4 Posted January 3 44 minutes ago, mizapf said: if there is an original (working) disk, I'd also be interested. I emulated the card in MAME, but could not thoroughly test it because the only disk that looked like the original disk was broken. here are the notes and 2 demo disk @FarmerPotato posted. I haven't tested them yet since I don't know 4th. Downloads.zip 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+dhe #5 Posted January 3 As I recall it was a redo of the theme to Chariots of Fire. Wonder what someone could do with the AxelF demo and four tms9919's? Heck, I'd settle for two sound chips, so we could do games with left and right speakers. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DuaneAL #6 Posted January 4 I have never heard any recordings of forti output. Is there a resource where I could listen? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hloberg #7 Posted January 4 22 minutes ago, DuaneAL said: I have never heard any recordings of forti output. Is there a resource where I could listen? if you're familiar with MAME setup use the Forti card as a device. 2 demo .dsk is couple post up on this thread. there are in forth. 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+FarmerPotato #8 Posted January 4 I’ve never seen the real FORTI card. I got the software at a Lubbock users group meeting (1984) but somehow failed to copy both sides of the disk. my disks are: the TI FORTH Demo (graphics) which included 3-voice Bach “Little” Organ Fugue in G Minor. And half an (early?) FORTI disk, that plays 12-voice Chariots of Fire (badly, on stock console) and Ricercar. The third piece, and big chunks of the source on side 2, were not copied. 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
atrax27407 #9 Posted January 4 Look for Bruce Harrison's stuff. He did a bunch of FORTI stuff. 2 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+mizapf #10 Posted January 4 When I load FORTI, I end up in a TI FORTH screen with blinking cursor. Do I have to load some screen? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hloberg #11 Posted January 4 48 minutes ago, mizapf said: When I load FORTI, I end up in a TI FORTH screen with blinking cursor. Do I have to load some screen? attach Forti use chariots.dsk E/A 3 run DSK1.Forth after forth starts type: 59 BLOAD after load type: PLAY seems to work with all sound channels. attached is disk for those who don't have it. oddly the forth disk doesn't seem to work on the HSGPL setup but does work on plain TI-99/4a MAME. CHARIOTS.dsk 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hloberg #12 Posted January 5 after playing with the Forti, it makes me wonder where they were going with it. it could been hooked up to a keyboard, that might been interesting. could have turned the TI99 into a glorious square wave disco machine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill R Sullivan #13 Posted January 5 On 1/3/2022 at 3:45 PM, hloberg said: found the manual to the Forti sound card. can't find the disk that is supposed to come with it. anyone got one as a .dsk? also, does anyone actually own one and used it? and have anyone made some music disk. I'm adding a music section to TI99resources and want to add this and the sidmaster. Yes, unfortunately, it's on a 720K diskette, and I don't currently have a PEB system up and running, yet. It may also take some time to find, as I haven't bothered to sort them, yet. 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+mizapf #14 Posted January 5 How do I work with the second disk (FORTI-Card-MISC-RMS-01.dsk)? This is the one that drops me off at the TI FORTH prompt. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Schmitzi #15 Posted January 5 1 hour ago, mizapf said: How do I work with the second disk (FORTI-Card-MISC-RMS-01.dsk)? This is the one that drops me off at the TI FORTH prompt. hmmm, "RMS" is me, and this is a compilation I did ~2 years ago. I think I have just put MISC .tifiles together there where I thought it´s for the Forti card... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill R Sullivan #16 Posted January 26 My ForTI card is missing one sound chip. Does anyone have one to sell? RetroBill (fdos) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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