globeron

September 8, 2023

3 hours ago, Schmitzi said:

I like it, but the same question here: Who is the owner of forumotion.eu,

and what will happen with it in future ?

If we can fetch or export all data, all is possible, but uneeded work if done twice or more times...

(Please also keep in mind that I own the ti994a.com (from Barry Boone), the .DE,

Geneve9640.com and .de and much more domains.

I would pass some of this domains away or relink or share the ownership with or without others or whatever, for such a (guaranteed) use.)

And there are whtech.com, also Rich Polivka´s 99er.net, Fabrice´s ti99.com and much more well established pages/names that are hosted by hopelessly addicted users....

And at such a point, if so, for me it makes very much sense about a "community of heirs" (owners & admins) for this domains, and to discuss it (wherever).

For me it must not happen that someone passes away or becomes a bitch or whatever and the community slides into a status like "Game Over".

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

September 8, 2023

https://ti99.forumotion.eu/

September 8, 2023

1 hour ago, Schmitzi said:

So what if i.e. the Atari managment or just the responsible department head changes next year,

or if Atari gets acquired or whatever,

and they suddenly find out that the at least 2nd big and maybe most growing forum here is

Texas Instruments, and that Texas Instruments is not Atari ? 🤔

So I come back to my question that I asked more than once before,

how to export/backup this, the biggest TI99&Co related knowledge- and filebase (in a usable format) ?

Maybe a smart "crawler" can be programmed easily ?

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.

September 6, 2023

On 9/5/2023 at 12:48 PM, Asmusr said:

I think you want this version:

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

September 5, 2023

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

August 20, 2023

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:

August 20, 2023

10 minutes ago, tmop69 said:

I wasn't initially interested in compiling this game, but since there are people that could like to play it on the real hardware (and do not have any disk system...), here is the cart!

To summarize: based on last V2.0 version, all 20 levels packed into the cart (NO disk required!), joystick support and, of course, compiled!

There is also a label, for those that want to burn the cart. MAME .rpk and .bin versions for FG99/Classic99/etc.

Have fun!

Marble Maze V2.0 (No Disk Required!) (2023)(Ricki Baron)[Compiled by TMOP].zip 517.78 kB · 0 downloads

Thank you, nice!

August 19, 2023

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

August 16, 2023

(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 🙂

August 10, 2023

18 hours ago, jrhodes said:

On 8/9/2023 at 7:17 AM, globeron said:

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):

Expand

I don't even see Hopman in the list of games

Maybe once all versions have been created.

August 9, 2023

(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

August 9, 2023

19 hours ago, OLD CS1 said:

Good question. I think I got mine from the original thread in which it was discovered. I will go back through this thread later today and check it out.

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 🙂 )

August 9, 2023

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):

August 8, 2023

15 hours ago, OLD CS1 said:

Odd -- my copy works in the FG99.

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)

August 7, 2023

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).

August 5, 2023

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

August 4, 2023

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.

August 4, 2023

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:

August 3, 2023

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

August 3, 2023

6290 level 6, keys. Retrobat/Mame64

July 27, 2023

July 26, 2023

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)

July 16, 2023

40 minutes ago, mizapf said:
Weird. Really, works for me: http://www.mizapf.eu/files/mame/genevesay.webm

Please test this minimal configuration:
mame ti99_4a -cart exbasic -ioport peb -ioport:peb:slot3 speech
Next, try it with the Geneve, with minimum config:
mame geneve -peb:slot2 speech -peb:slot8 hfdc -peb:slot8:hfdc:h1 generic -hard1 Bootdisk1.HD -flop1 dsdd1.dsk

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 %*)

July 14, 2023

Nice work @Asmusr !

July 9, 2023

6 hours ago, gferluga said:

It's working. I have had to copy the mame.ini file into C:\RetroBat\emulators\mame

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