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Ref: "Atari has gone and purchased the website AtariAge for an undisclosed fee (source: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/atari-acquires-historian-website-atariage)" Atariage was the most central one, but now all previous and new posts are probably the property and owned by Atari ? @OLD CS1 Just trying how easy and fast it is to setup a similar format (look and feel) forum with a dedicated TI-99 focus (for the community by the community and not owned by an org.) @Schmitzi You are right, so many forum moved and disappeared (Yahoo group, etc.) and so many websites. This is what I could find about Forumotion: https://www.forumotion.com/terms-of-service forumotion.com is a service published by the company e-Toxic, a limited liability company based at 100 Rue Albert Caquot 06410 Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE, registered under number 490 862 059 in the Antibes Trade and Companies Register. Datacenter : OVH : 2 rue Kellermann - 59100 Roubaix - France and SOFTLAYER : 6400 International Parkway, Suite 2000, Plano, TX 75093 USA. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/forumotion https://www.whois.com/whois/forumotion.com

https://ti99.forumotion.eu/

you are very good at that to preserve the TI-99 in detail. Also feel all the good info need to backed up before it is gone again.

I did not see there was a V2, thanks! For the competition we can do both V1 or V2 scores. (somehow I like the V1 graphics as it is more ZX alike I feel) westbank-v2-8.bin westbank-v2.rpk

Results of August's Challenge: Ascend Globeron - 66,590 level 46 Smoker Ace - 24,190 Stage 16 September 2023 Challenge - West Bank link: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/350902-west-bank/ westbank.rpk westbank8.bin

Small correction with G I could shoot in the old game (was trying the Q). Also I note in the older version scores are 10x higher. Like 50 and 400 versus the kamikaze one 5 and 40 Old version:

Thank you, nice!

Nice game and fast! (in the earlier version it was slow and I could not shoot somehow) Wave 5 - 01676 (classic 99) I could not go back to remove the A in my name. Also .rpk here for Retrobat/MAME 99Vaders.rpk

(Check out the high score competition, most are challenging), but for sure classic ones: Munch-Man, TI-Invaders, Chisholm Trail and modern ones: War Zone, SkyWay, Road Fighter, TI- Scramble. Increasing difficulty levels, try to beat the highscores then you know why 🙂

I don't even see Hopman in the list of games Maybe once all versions have been created.

(Impetus is the only one not being available for the TI-99/4A platform - http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/impetus/). Some systems at the end of the list have the src code listed Just curious is the source code of any of the other systems useable to be compiled via any of these tools for TI-99/4a? or does the source code need to be adjusted as well (Crosslib + inufuto tools) ? Crosslib for TI-99/4A https://forums.atariage.com/topic/330092-multi-platform-game-dev-tools-list/?do=findComment&comment=4989420 https://forums.atariage.com/topic/330092-multi-platform-game-dev-tools-list/ http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/tools.html

I cannot Edit my original post anymore (after a while that option is gone, but: Tutankam, it actually works I just tested it with only a FinalGrom plugged in (and removed the Speech and PEB Box) There are two versions of the start blue titlescreen (option 2). One is "Parker Brothers' Game" the other one "Tutankam" (I found the answer back in my own post that time 🙂 )

It seems Hopman was released 26-March-2023 already for the TI-99/4A, but recently added to the page: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/hopman/#ti99 Video has been published 20 min ago (9am GMT+9 // 7am GMT+7):

does the one in the .zip file work? if so then I need to check again, otherwise need to locate a better .bin (I had a similar issue with Buck Rogers, but found a working one)

All TI-99/4A "High Score Competition" FinalGrom format files grouped per year together until August 2023. TI-AtariAge-HISCORE-Competition.zip Apparently these games we played 2 times: * Centipede (2nd session - mizapf), * Spot-Shot (DragonFlyer) (2nd session - Jwild), * Cave Creatures (1st session - Opry99er). Tutankam - could not get it to work in Finalgrom (but works in Classic99). Adventure requires access to a disk drive (or tape) with the Pirate Adventure game (or use an emulator like Classic99, JS99er, MAME, etc.) Tetris and Major Tom need to be loaded with Editor / Assembler option 5 from a disk (or use an emulator) Compu-Car only after the 1st game the sprites are a bit corrupted, after game over, the next game onwards the sprites are okay (I converted to a module, but that time I could not find the right starting point).

Something like 1.5-2 hours. I was trying not to use blocks, etc. and go as fast as possible up.

66,590 level 46, keys (E,S,D,X and Q for jump). Retrobat/Mame64 It started to repeat itself and got more 1-ups during the game. I was able to jump over the red bomb.

Yesterday I was at the Home Computer museum in Helmond Netherlands. https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/ and still battling in the computer wars. Visitors got attracted by look who's talking:

24,070 level 17, keys (E,S,D,X and Q for jump). Retrobat/Mame64

6290 level 6, keys. Retrobat/Mame64

Looks like Hopman will be next hopefully for the TI as well https://www.youtube.com/@retropc9857/videos (Impetus is not there for the TI, but I can run it in an MSX emulator)

It also works for me. MAME v0.256, non-GenMod 1.00 MDOS 7.30 and ABASIC 4.04DDI (mame.exe geneve -bios 1.00 -peb:slot5 speech -peb:slot6 tirs232 -peb:slot8 hfdc -peb:slot8:hfdc:h1 generic -hard1 disks\genhd01.hd %*)

Nice work @Asmusr !

glad to hear it works! I thought when starting MAME from Retrobat it uses the mame.ini from this directory - C:\RetroBat\bios\mame\ini (I will add it to this in the TI-99.zip file) and starting mame directly it uses C:\RetroBat\emulators\mame (and similar with the bezel artwork it uses another directory from the saves\mame\artwork directory vs \emulators\mame\artwork