Sinphaltimus

Looks like this is the leader board for Jungle Hunt with Majestyx at the top with an incredible score of 28,110 Congrats Majestyx - your turn to pick a game. Majestyx 28,110 Globeron 18,430 Vorticon 11,510 Count9929A 7900-ish discgolger72 6,300 Oprey88er 6,100 Sinphaltimus - Too low to count. *Prize - I don't know. CS1, - I don't have have anything really. You're awesome for this =- http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241547-high-score-competition-march-jungle-hunt/page-73?do=findComment&comment=3997627- At the very least I can pay your shipping charges for whatever you send to the winner.

Geeze, I'm spread real thin these days, my apologies..... - OK. I should go through and find the scores now. BBIAB.

This is the one I got if anyone cares - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OQ19QYA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

File size matching with the the classic 40*18*2*256 DD/MFM format. This is not the right format ? I don't know, i would like to get some help from folks much more knowledgeable in TI floppy formats than i to help with some responses. What mean "1140" in the file name ? Anything with an "80" in the filename means it's an 80 track version. Anything with 360, 720, 1140 or 1600 in the filename means it is a 40 track image and that number is the total sectors. So DSDD1140 = Double Sided Double Density 40 track with 1440 total sectors for example. No particular reason to have issues with these DSKs, so i want understand what is the problem here... Which error did you get exactly ? I have to confirm these disks are good ones to try and I am not loading them correctly. I am getting "check program in memory" errors which can mean that I am loading them incorrectly or that they need a specific cartridge inserted first. I will go through my dsk collection and find programs and games I know to work in emulation and then use those instead. Have you tried to convert them to HFE and run them ? No, not yet. Have you at least successfully run some others programs from others DSK ? (if yes, with the same file image size or different ? No, I haven't found a dsk file I can successfully load from yet but I only tested the few I attached. With limited time last night I just picked a few without consideration for their requirements. I will however test dsk images I that are known working in basic or extended basic. Hopefully before the weekend.

I was able to do some more testing and here are my results: Using ti99DIR I created 4 dsk files as follows: SSSD360.dsk DSSD720.dsk DSDD1140.dsk CF7A1600.dsk each of the above with 40 tracks selected at creation time. CF7A is non standard and only used for nanPEB, i did nto think this would work but I tried anyway. The results from those tests are: SSSD360.dsk - initialized fine as SSSD 40- track, was able to copy catalog program to it, load catalog program from it and run catalog program. DSSD720.dsk - initialized fine as DSSD 40- track, was able to copy catalog program to it, load catalog program from it and run catalog program. DSDD1140.dsk - Not able to initialize Disk Error 17 in DiskManager 2 program - 1-Device write protected(attempting to write to a protected file): : 7-File error(the indicated file does not exist or the file type;program file or data file does not match the access mode.) CF7A1600.dsk - Not see by GoTek - No Worries, not important. Using TIImager I wa able to create uninitialized dsk images at 80 tracks each, they are: SSSD80.dsk DSSD80.dsk DSDD80.dsk The results were: SSSD80.dsk - GoTek reads disk as 40 track not 80 however; - initialized fine as SSSD 80- track, was able to copy catalog program to it, load catalog program from it and run catalog program. DSSD80.dsk - GoTek reads disk as 40 track not 80 however; Not able to initialize disk error 31 in DiskManager 2 program :: 3-Illegal operation(Input/output command not valid) : : 1-Device write protected(attempting to write to a protected file) DSDD80.dsk - Not able to initialize Disk Error 17 in DiskManager 2 program :: 1-Device write protected(attempting to write to a protected file) : : 7-File error(the indicated file does not exist or the file type;program file or data file does not match the access mode.) I can confirm my HFE files work and they are setup as DSSD 80 track HFE files. I have not been able to get any programs to load off of a handful of dsk files we have in archives: I could be doing something wrong here as I have never loaded these particular programs before. I will have more time to do more extensive testing this weekend. If I can squeeze in some mroe time during the week I will. Attached are the dsk files I created and tested with. Custom.zip And these are the existing programs one I could not load anything from - perhaps another TI-99er could tell me why. I may not have chosen optimal dsk files to test with using BASIC, Extended BASIC and I even tried EA5 load/run. I.zip

OK, had about 15 minutes to spare and I spent most of that time using the built is configuration utility on my LCD display for the first time ever. I changed mode to NORMAL and set family to TI-99/4a and I'm not sure but I think I set that other drive setting to SHUGART since the default was HFE files. I'd have to review my settings for sure but after updating to that firmware in your link, reconfiguring my GoTek and copying some dsk files over... It works to the point that I can select an HFE image or a DSK image by file name and load it. I was also able to catalog a disk in this case I used MGAMES-III.dsk and it worked. I haven't run any programs from DSK or tried anything else, like formatting or copying files (using DM2K or anything else. Just catalogued the DSK file in basic that's it. I hope to get back to it after work today and see how it behaves initializing dsk files, copying disks and copying files of various capacities and formats. I invite anyone else to do the same.

Thanks Jeff, I'll check it out after the holiday activities settle down.

I have been unable to get past the first level natives.

I'm not really up on floppy tech or anything so I'm not sure what RAW.Sector dump is. I did try some TI specific dsk images with your last release and couldn't get them seen, which is also why I contacted you about the TI's specific DSK image format. Hopeful to see that in HxC as that's the current firmware on my TI's GoTek. I was under the impression we might see that sometime this year as per our last private msg exchange. If I am completely not understanding then I would certainly like to. Currently those of us with GoTeks and HxC are using HFE as the format (having to create and populate HFE images on a PC from scratch or from an existing dsk file). I think, as seen here in this topic, there is a need/desire to have v9t9 dsk support for GoTek and for Lathorak drives. Much the same way adf is supported on Amigas. Compatible with existing images for real iron (via floppy emulation) and in emulators such as classic99 and JS99er, MAME and more. Thanks for the info Jeff, please do explain further in case I'm misunderstanding something. I think you've piqued the interest of everyone currently using HxC firmware.

For all you Krack Heads - I mean Gram Kracker Heads. OK, I feel I've made enough progress to show what I've been doing. Not so much a preservation effort as it is a recreation effort. I'm no engineer but I'm glad to help. I hope to have this completed within a week or two tops. It will at the very least end up ultra Hi-Res (not super low res for this preview) but my intent is to keep it vector for file size and zooming - as long as I can combine the two different programs I'm using to complete this. Sure it needs some clean up (slightly crooked lines and some components not lined up 100% accurately) but I think it's coming along nicely. Hope ya'll think so as well. Still have all those text labels to add. Whew. I've done my best to preserve the integrity of the layout and work done on the original.

Full Disclosure: The Mouse Demo is just that, a tech demo to show a USB mouse connected to a pi can work on the TI. It's far from an art package and very difficult to use with minor mouse movement. My comment about dumping the VPD ram to save the "art" was definitely a me kidding around. That stuff I did is hardly worth saving beyond a screenshot with a phone camera lol. But, it shows a proof of concept for others to work from. A "mouse driver" for certain TI applications (art or web browser) is certainly the way to approach this. I was just having too much fun actually drawing on a real TI console for the first time ever. And I hope my intended purpose of drumming up some excitement succeeded. And the TELNET, whoa, that is fantastic. responsive and working nicely especially in 80COL mode with an F18A. I hope ya'll are as excited about this as i am. It really is opening the door to so many more possibilities, bringing very difficult things within reach and making them achievable.

Well, all we need is a keypress to dump the VPD ram to a file for use later. *hint*hint*wink*wink* - Save the files names with incremental tipic01..tipic02... with each key press. *wink*wink*hint*hint* lol.

Yeah, about that mouse demo plugging a USB mouse into the Pi connected to TiPi connected to TI thing... So freaking cool!

OMG you said Amiga 500 - Achievement unlocked - Awesome factor x10. Have you been following the Apollo Accelerator Vampire FPGA project at all? Sweet happenings right there.

Funny how that one video brought it all together. followed your post here - http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=91465&highlight=video Received a new notification of the video last night (I'm a subscriber) and was like "Ah-Ha" See this and now I'm all Ah Ha Ah Ha! LOL Keep up the good work. Perhaps someday my channel will be as entertaining...

gleike - You can go even smaller if you like.... See this topic here - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/276097-how-much-crap-can-you-really-put-on-an-fg99-sd-card-anyway/

I've been playing with traces since that article hit the net. It's pretty fast but without documentation is extremely hard to figure out. My hope is that someone will recompile it for for vampire and actually document some of it's usage and such.

Yooze guyz can crank out awesome 4k titles in just a couple of months. why aren't there billions of new games out yet? LOL *ducks and covers*

Nice - updated!

Already installed LOL But temporary until I get the rear panel redone. I'm waiting to see their USB solution. If I can use it for KB/Mouse then I don't have to do anything more to the back panel design but if I can't then I don't want to attach a new back panel that I'm going to have to cut into later. So until then. It's this functional mess.

Here is the "before" picture and why I went to a tower -

Thanks man, I'm saving the rear panel for last. My digital caliper just arrived today and the Tower is just about ready for it. I'm even going to surface mount the JTAG to the Vampire with an extension cable. And I want a support for the A520. Two reasons why I put it in a tower. 1. I was thinking about it to save deskspace. 2. My yellowed, brittle A500 case shattered. #2 sealed the deal.

Well all have our primary love, some of us keep a girlfriend on the side. In this case, an Amiga and speaking of cases, I thought I'd share my A500 to ATX tower mod that I've been slowly working on for about a year now when my original yellowed A500 case shattered into bits.

Installed a removable HDD bay for my HDD. Getting close to sanding and painting the final coat... EDIT: Geeze, sideways, really? I'm not re-uploading. LOL sorry.

That's pretty slick. Nice job!