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TI-BASE running from HD added to MAME Geneve


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TIBASE on the Geneve

 

In the updated .HD files for the Geneve emulation (in TI99RESOURCES) I’ve included a new TIBASE for the Geneve running from hard drive. It runs from the FDRIVE.HD (hard-drive 2) in HDS2.TIB. And (recommended) saves to the GDRIVE, HDS3.TIBFILES. It runs with the TI99 E/A Geneve module. (I tried to get it to run with the Geneve EXEC but the SELECT command kept blowing up the TIBASE when executed with EXEC.)

To run TIBASE from the Geneve I created a batch file called TIB. You can type TIB at any command prompt to start the program. The program starts with a batch file with the notes:

EA loads in

Option 5 load HDS2.TIB.TIBASEW

program begins.

Some things I did to make in run from .hd:

To get TIBASE to run from the .HD I modified in the TIB directory files TIBASEW & SETUP. If you want to use TIBASE on your hard drive modify TIBASEW using FILEZAP. Look for the 2 lines that say HDS2.TIB and change to your drive and directory. Also modify the 2 lines in SETUP that refer to HDS2.TIB. You are limited to just 3 letters for the directory name (best I can tell).

The program runs in 40 column. It looks like someone at some point was thinking of making it run in 80 column as a line in SETUP was created SET LINE=80 (I since removed it) but apparently it was never implemented as the SET LINE=80 command comes up as invalid.

NOTES:

in Help (F7) the instructions say ‘press ESC to exit’. This doesn’t seem to work. It may not work because some setting in the emulator or may not ever work, I don’t know. But F9 (mentioned elsewhere in the help file) does exit Help.

The program runs much faster on the Geneve then it did on the TI99. This, under some slow typing situations ‘may’ cause multiple letters to be typed. It very rarely happened to me though but once in a while if I loitered on a key too long multiple of the same letter did get printed.

I put the tutorial files for TIBASE on separate .dsk in SOFTWARE/DISK. 

 

 

Here’s the link for the new .HD for the Geneve in TI99RESOURCES/ Emulation. https://ti99resources.wordpress.com/emulation/

 

Enjoy.

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