Little time ago I posted some files here that were roll-ups of files for MAME/MESS from the, what I call, the 'other' 99s; that is the TI99-8, TI99-2, TI-99 PSystem, MyArcII XB and the Geneve 9640. Looking over them I realized I hadn't vetted these very closely, especially the Geneve.

(FYI: if you don't know anything about the Geneve, here is the Wiki article with some excellent links for a deeper dive on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneve_9640 )

So I went back and pulled up MESS Geneve and began testing and adding software so now I have a much better package with lots of games and tested software that runs on the MAME/MESS Geneve without much effort. The tested and working files are put in two .HD files; OS7 and FDRIVE. OS7 is the operating system and the development files. FDRIVE is the games, Advanced BASIC and XB26 files and other miscellaneous files. As stated, I tested these files as working to the extent of my ability. If something is missing that you may know of from the Geneve I either could not get it to work or I just didn't know about it.

Here is the brief listing of OS7.

BATCH contains batch runtime files for:

AB - Advanced BASIC startup

Bible - A Christian Bible program

CAL- displays a monthly calendar

EA - loads TI-99 Editor assembler in MYGPL

The HELP files - GPLHELP, MDOSHELP, PROGHELP & QDEHELP

4th - starts the Forth programming package

MA - starts Myart

MW - starts Myword

XB - starts XB2.6 in MYGPL

Some of the other packages on OS7:

Forth - the Forth programming package directory

DSK - holds the Fortran programming package. Start the Fortran in XB then RUN "HDS1.DSK.FORTCOMP.XBBOOT" to execute

DSK1 - the virtual Disk 1 drive

TASM - the 9640 assembler

TIC - the 9640 C programming package

MDOS - the MyDOS operating system files. Notable utilities:

D - this is a two column formatted directory program

DM - the directory manager

EDITOR - an advanced editor

GAMEGPL - starts GPL programs directly bypassing the TI menu

QDE - the general purpose editor for the 9640

XCOPY, XDEL & XDIR - more advanced directory commands

FDRIVE listing:

ABD - directory program that will run in Advanced BASIC

XBD - same as above for XB26

GAMES - MYGPL and MDOS game executables

Listing for game executable. Can be run straight from MDOS

alpiner, blasto, anteater, burgertime, carwars, chisolm trail, donkey kong, henpecked, jungle hunt, junkman jr, mbgames (includes connect 4, hangman, yathzee & zero zap), microsurgeon, moonmine, moonsweeper, munchman, munchman2, othello, popeye, princess & the frog, return to the island, roto-raiders, schnozola, tetris (MDOS native), the attack, TI invaders, tombstone city, topper, video chess, wingwar, hunt the wumpus and yathzee. 

Note: it is recommended when starting all these games except Tetris to press SHIFT+SHIFT+CTRL the F4 to slow the speed down otherwise they will run at up to 5 times the speed.

Tunnels of Doom -TOD. the files for Tunnels of Doom are in HDS2.TODDISK

Adventure - Adventure files are in HDS2.ADVDISK

Infocom - all the Infocom games are in the HDS2.INFOCOM

XBGAMES - these games must be run from XB26 otherwise they won't work.

buckrogers, centipede, congo bongo, dig dug, hopper & Qbert.    

I also added some other .HD files:

9640news - all of Beery's 9640 newsletters.

PSYS - this is the Psystem for 9640. It, sorta works but not well enough to have added it to OS7.

MDOS7 - these are the original MDOS7 files.

other Games - these are some games that mostly run but with issues.

How to run. Copy all the MESS files in your MAME/MESS directory. It contains the ROMS and other import files to run the 9640 emulator. run the supplied batch files GENEVE-9640.BAT to run the emulator

Some thoughts on the Geneve 9640. It's still very much a work in-progress. Berry and his other programmers are continuously working on updating the system and adding more features to what is a fairly stable platform. There is also some work on a 9640 hardware recreation, so we got that too.

The 9640 was/is a good upgrade of the TI-99 line. It has a much nice BASIC, faster, better graphics and sound. Personally, I think it been a better product than the 99/8. But, that is history.

If you want something to play with in the vain of the 99-4a, I would recommend the 9640. Even if you can't get a real iron, make you a virtual one with MAME/MESS or wait and see if a real 9640 finally makes it out the door. 

Enjoy, HLO

Geneve9640.zip