jchase1970

July 24

Thanks

July 24

I watched a video on new homebrews for the 2600 last night and in the games shown before the video starts was this car game but the games reviewed did not include it. Does anyone know what game this is?

July 9

I knew there was a way but I was not finding it. Thank you Albert

July 9

Is there a way to search just the TI-99/4A Development and not the whole atariage forum?

December 27, 2022

I want to just find time to do some programming again, maybe finish a few of the many started games, and projects from the past 10 years. oh, and get me a NanoPEB.

December 26, 2022

SteveB, Can I get a copy of Freds Module Creator from you. His website is down and I can not find it any place else.

John

December 25, 2022

Thank You Tmop69 for the .bin

Thank you SteveB for the info, I will read it for sure!

December 25, 2022

Ah so it made -e -f -g files, these are the EA5 files.

I seen this CALL LINK(“EA5,”DSK1.HELLO-E”) everytime I used it but I didn't know what it was doing. And my manual must be older then my version because it has this info in it for the file it creates.

"You can see that five files are used in the process of compiling a program. To help keep track of them,
I recommend using the following conventions. If the original XB program is called TEST then:
TEST = original XB program
TEST-M = merge format file
TEST-S = assembly source code file
TEST-O = assembly object code file
TEST-C = compiled code ready to run from Extended BASIC
TEST-A – compiled code ready to run from EA5
(The above are just suggestions. Feel free to use whatever file names you wish.)"

It said -A which I don't even have, So I didn't know why I had other files.

I've not ever had to deal with other files and I figured out today looking back at stuff on the forums from 10-12 years ago that I was doing, I have forgot it all. I couldn't even do stuff that I had explained how I was doing it to work. I do good to be able to type a simply program like this and get it working.

Thank you for your help.

here are the ea5 files you requested.

SANTA-G SANTA-E SANTA-F

December 24, 2022

6 hours ago, tmop69 said:

Is it possible to have it also on .bin format for FinalGROM? Many thanks.

Someone would have to teach me how to do that. Retroclouds converted my Bouncing Babies game a long time ago, so I know it can be done but I am clueless on how to do it and would love to learn how.

December 24, 2022

3 hours ago, arcadeshopper said:

or if you upload the ea5 program version we can make one

Can you teach me how. I don't know how to make a ea5 file. I was looking around trying to figure it out but I came up blank.

December 24, 2022

This is a new game I just completed. It's been a long time since I have made a game and this was a lot of fun. It is some of the worse code I have ever written and caused me a huge debugging issue, but I got it working. Don't be too hard on it, it was only a couple of days of coding but it is fun for a few plays. I had bigger dreams for it, with music and more level pictures but it's almost Christmas and it is a Christmas theme so the game is done as is.

SANTAPANIC

December 19, 2022

I needed binary operations in basic and I created some simple nibble operations routines to go from

dec to 4 bits

4 bits to dec

dec to hex

hex to dec

4 bits to hex

hex to 4 bits

I reserve variables DEC,HEX$,BITS$

They are string functions but if it is a decimal out come it will be a value not a string

All functions are a single line and could be set up as User-Defined Functions in extended basic

I have made them all gosubs so I can use them in compiled basic.

The code include a example of each function converting 0-15, 0-F, 0000-1111

Not sure if anyone needs these but I have used the binary functions many times including for bitwise operators which I will post next time.

I have made good use of them so maybe someone else can too

REM SET UP HEX AND BIN STRINGS
1 HEXSET$="0123456789ABCDEF"
2 BINSET$="B0000B0001B0010B0011B0100B0101B0110B0111B1000B1001B1010B1011B1100B1101B1110B1111"
REM RESERVE VARIABLEs
REM DEC,HEX$,BITS$

REM EXAMPLES
10 CALL CLEAR
20 PRINT"WORKING WITH A NIBBLE(4BITS)"
30 PRINT"SEND 0-15 AND RETURNS HEX$ 0-F"
40 FOR DEC=0 TO 15
50 GOSUB 1000
60 PRINT DEC,HEX$
70 NEXT DEC
80 GOSUB 900
90 PRINT"SEND HEX$ 0-F AND RETURN 0-15"
100 FOR VALUE=0 TO 15
110 DEC=VALUE
120 GOSUB 1000
130 DEC=0::REM CLEAR DEC VALUE TO KNOW WE ARE RETURNING A VALYE 
140 GOSUB 1010
150 PRINT HEX$,DEC
160 NEXT VALUE
170 GOSUB 900
180 PRINT"SEND 0-15 RETURN NIBBLE BIT VALUE"
190 FOR DEC=0 TO 15
200 GOSUB 1020
210 PRINT DEC,BITS$
220 NEXT DEC
230 GOSUB 900 
240 PRINT"SEND NIBBLE BITS$ AND RETURN DEC"
250 FOR VALUE=0 TO 15
260 DEC=VALUE
270 GOSUB 1020::REM GET BITS$ TO SEND
280 DEC=0 ::REM CLEAR DEC TO KNOW WE ARE RETURNING A DEC FOR BITS$
290 GOSUB 1030
300 PRINT BITS$,DEC
310 NEXT VALUE
320 GOSUB 900
330 PRINT"SEND HEX$ AND GET NIBBLE BITS$"
340 FOR DEC=0 TO 15
350 GOSUB 1000
360 GOSUB 1040
370 PRINT HEX$,BITS$
380 NEXT DEC
385 GOSUB 900
390 PRINT"SEND NIBBLE BITS$ AND RETURN HEX$ (0-F)"
400 FOR DEC=0 TO 15
410 GOSUB 1020::REM GET BIT FOR DEC
420 GOSUB 1050::REM GET HEX$ FOR BITS$
430 PRINT BITS$,HEX$
440 NEXT DEC
450 GOSUB 900
899 END
900 PRINT"PRESS ANY KEY"
910 CALL KEY(0,K,S)
920 IF S=0 THEN 910
930 RETURN



REM ALL ROUTINES FOR BIT FUNCTION FOR HEX AND BINARY NUMBERS
REM ALL STORED IN STRINGS FOR SAVING SPACE
REM ROUTINES WORK ON NIBBLES(4 BITS)
REM NO ERROR CHECKING

REM RETURN NIBBLE HEX FROM DEC
REM SET DEC TO 0-15 NUMBER
REM RETURN WILL BE HEX$
1000 HEX$=SEG$(HEXSET$,DEC+1,1)
1001 RETURN

REM RETURN NIBBLE DEC FROM HEX
REM SET HEX$ TO HEX VALUE
REM RETURN 0-15 IN DEC
1010 DEC=POS(HEXSET$,HEX$,1)-1
1011 RETURN

REM RETURN NIBBLE BITS FROM DEC
REM SET DEC TO 0-15
REM RETURNS NIBBLE BITS(4 BITS)
1020 BITS$=SEG$(BINSET$,DEC*5+2,4)
1021 RETURN

REM RETURN DEC FROM NIBBLE BITS
REM SEND BITS$ 
REM RETURNS DEC
1030 DEC=(POS(BINSET$,BITS$,1)-2)/5
1031 RETURN

REM RETURN NIBBLE BITS FROM HEX
REM SEND HEX VALUE IN HEX$
REM RETURNS BITS$
1040 BITS$=SEG$(BINSET$,(POS(HEXSET$,HEX$,1)-1)*5+2,4)
1041 RETURN

REM RETURN SINGLE HEX FROM NIBBLE BITS(4 BITS)
REM RETURNS 0-F FOR A 4 BIT STRING
REM SET BITS$ TO 4 BITS
1050 HEX$=SEG$(HEXSET$,(POS(BINSET$,BITS$,1)-2)/5+1,1)
1051 RETURN

February 21, 2022

Yes the side port.

I need to access the bus with wires that I can plug into an arduino.

February 21, 2022

Where can I get a expansion port breakout board. I looked on ebay but nothing came up.

Thank you

July 9, 2019

What I am trying to do is communicate to a mircocontroller thru the cartridge port to provide some enhanced sound functions.

I was going to use a PI Zero but I have figure out that this has several hurdles to overcome.

Now I am looking at various stand alone midi or mp3 players. They are small enough to insert in to a cart and have a micro speaker in it.

This would allow a game to play a background track thru that speaker and sound effects thru the TI.

The only thing I need to figure out is how to send a signal out to the controller to tell it what track to play.

I had hoped this would be as simply as having the controller listen to the 8bit DIO bus and when it reads a command to it then do a function.

But I may be in over my head on this.

But I'll plug alone and maybe get it right.

July 8, 2019

What does the 8bit databus IO do?

I specifically want to send a byte out thru the cartridge port to another device but I don't want it to interfere with the normal operation of the cartridge.

February 26, 2012

here is a link to my sprite editor. It lets you layer sprites and build 28 at a time. then export 1 or all the char pattererns to the clipboard.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/159668-my-sprite-editor/

John

February 2, 2012

The TI-designed 128K Super RAM card included RAM in the >4000 space as well, so you could get up to 48K without banking anything out. Anything that needed a DSR would bank out that 8K, but it was still an available option space. I have one of these.

I've thought about this before, so now is a good time to ask.....

If you can have 48k with out banking, does that mean you can do 48k bank switching and if so can you do that as a sidecart like the couple that do exist? Seems like if sidecarts could have access 48k at once then someone would be able to make anygame that the MSX series runs. They all just need more memory cause they all run in full bitmap mode.

48k blocks over 8k blocks would really be alot room and easier to program for.

January 31, 2012

This forum keeps taking little dives towards the yahoo group mentality. This is a programming forum for people to learn and experience the Ti99 in. Using BASIC, XB, GPL, FORTH, ASSEMBLY, or anything else. We need no, "MY WAY IS THE BEST WAY" or "YOU WAY IS TERRIBLE" flame wars on here.

We want a friendly open enviroment that the TI has NEVER had to expand the quantity and quality of the programs available for the TI. A place where beginners and experienced can come and share and learn and teach the ins and outs of the TI. It's a very unique machine that has quarks that make it so much fun to learn about and try to over come.

January 13, 2012

I bought a 3.5 inch drive from tex-in treasures last year, just plugs on to the disk controller card on the expansion. Have not tried to transfer from ti to pc or vise versa but that was my intentions. If I remember it was only about 30 dollars.

January 8, 2012

Wow, it's the same old issues that have come up so many times in the TI's history. A few of my things are in the GB and I was never asked for permission, Permission is assumed as I have posted them to this site or other sites. It is up to me to author of said material to send a Cease and Decease Notice to indicate my intent that they not be included.

Roms are always iffy to say the least, Atari, Nintendo, and Sega use to actively fight to remove work from the ROM sites on the internet but they don't anymore. The only stuff actively protected are newer works that are still generating income. Now that nowhere means that someone can put all of the old NES ROM on a disk and sell that disk. Cause at that point you are generating income from intellectual property and the owners of said property are due their share and with out an agreed upon arrangement with the owns you have no contract for what you are doing.

As far as compiling stuff that is already on the web and putting it in one location to make it easier to get to, as long as no profit is coming from it, there is no problem cause said creator or owners of said work have not actively tried to remove the property from the web. As long as GB includes a contact for the right owners to contact the creator of GB and have the stuff removed if contested then there is no problem.

I would be totally against this if he had made GB and said here it is, 50GB of TI stuff, If you want it send me $XX for it. But he didn't. I am sure as long as he removes any work when contacted there will be no problem. It has been, and still is, up to the owners of intellectual property to protect it. If no one comes forward to do that it can be considered abandonware. Again it is no smart to try and make money from abandonware cause any onwer that sees money being made from their work can sue for it and will when as long as that work is still under the copywrite.

I'm sure some will disagree and that is fine, But I'm pretty sure everything I said is correct. Only because, as I can tell, he collected stuff already available on the web and compiled it for free and he has contact info available so people can contact him and contest it if they so choose.

January 6, 2012

It doesnt have to be a game, looking for creativeness.

I was under the impression CPU OVERDRIVE is same on all machines but SYSTEM MAXIMUM is different. I may be wrong.

January 6, 2012

Since this is an emulator only challenge fill free to make the game work in overdrive. Which FYI will let you get 20+fps in basic w/file reading or writing, making it possible to to have action games that run on multiple screens.

January 6, 2012

I got the first batch out and ran into some serious personal problems. I have some more almost done. But, I'm in the middle of moving. Please be a little patient with me and I'll contact you.

Sorry, John.

January 5, 2012

Hi, It's time for a new contest. This one is inspired from how I used the classic 99 emulator when using Harry Wilhems Basic Compiler.

I use a open classic 99 emulator for the basic code. A open emulator for editor assembler. And a open emulator for the loader.

So I have all three instances open and share the same files between the three instances of Classic 99. It is like having 3 TI994/a connected to the same disk drive.

So the challenge for this contest is to see who can be the most creative with file sharing. Use any language you want. Different languages for difference instances if you want. But you must send information thru a file from one instance of Classic 99 to at least one other instance of Classic 99.

You can use as many instances of Classic 99 as you want as long as it is at least 2.

I dont want to just see a data base either, I'm hoping to see emulated server/ client functions for games or maybe something displayed on one instance based on what happens on the other instance. Maybe a game with graphics in one instance and data in another.

To show you what I mean I have created 2 basic programs, One you input a string and then the other displays it.

Run this one in one Classic 99 window to enter a string.

10 OPEN #1:"DSK1.FILE",UPDATE
20 INPUT "ENTER A STRING:":A$
30 PRINT #1:A$
40 CLOSE #1
50 GOTO 10

Run this in another Classic 99 window to display what you entered in the other one.

10 OPEN #1:"DSK1.FILE",UPDATE
20 INPUT #1:A$
30 PRINT A$
40 CLOSE #1
50 GOTO 10

Good luck and think outside the BOX on this one.

John

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