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I believe everything you mentioned is in the 7.4 distribution as a zip file. As things are being distributed here and on 9640news.com and not on a bbs where would Xmodem download, everything pretty much has to go through a web browser for download. The zip format makes the most sense for distribution so that users can use the various utilities they use to move the files over to their devices. I do not have plans to make Dsk images as then you get into the issue of 90k, 180k, 360k, or maybe even 720k and 1.44mb formats. It can easily get out of control with such a large distribution of files.

Matt, I was looking for some background information on how the path/filename should be if using CS1 in PI.CONFIG. I was testing the use of CS1 from extended basic with the Geneve in rompage mode to see if things might work. From what I can tell, it is not reading the file. As an example file to test, I was using chutes.wav renamed to CHUTES from ftp.whtecho.com/Casssettes/ So, at the moment, I do not know if it is something in the roms/groms that may have been modified or something wrong with the configuration. I am right now using CS1_FILE=TIP0.CS1.CHUTES in my PI.CONFIG file. Beery

Thanks for the info. I am dealing with code that has setup a 24x40 column screen. That code looks like it should work. Beery

I am trying to convert a program to use the TIPI. I have an assembly language routine passed a variable for screen location. I need to convert this location to a row/column position in basic to use the Display At routine. Without using assembly, I seem to not be able to find an approrpiate routine. Ideas?

Was the source code ever released?

Is Ghostbuster's stricly joystick, or is there keyboard control?

Yes. There are some issues with the runtime system, but all source code is available and has been since the early 90's. Check out GitHub - BeeryMiller/PSYSTEM

I'm not saying it would be easy, but the Geneve does have the source code for the PSYSTEM. I am not sure how easy it would be to port over to the TI-99/4A, but with a F18a and a SAMS, there may be a possibility. I don't know if anyone has ever explored that option/opportunity. Just throwing it out there.

OK, I am doing something wrong. I have the files FT, GHOST512, GHOSTLOAD, and GTSTUB in the directory on the Geneve. Do I need other files? FT loads GHOSTLOAD passing the argument GHOST512, then goes to loading PRORGRAM. Is this GTSTUB? Or do I need other files?

Definitely if you can extract the source, it would be much appreciated for many!

Well, I cannot comment about the hardware emulation under MAME, just that on the real iron, Pinball works on the Geneve. I do not know if anyone has tried running the 4A version under TI-99 emulation? I do not follow the 4A emulation to know if all the necessary hardware has been emulated.

Yes, same version. Memory page BC is blocked from task mapping. I will double check I did not leave ama, amb, and amc in the off state in some of my testing.

Well, I moved the speech card to a slot # higher than the MEMEX card. Now, "HELLO" works in ABASIC. So, my next test was to answer a question asked of me regarding MAME. I am finding MAME does not like PINBALL for the Geneve with Speech. It may be the speech emulation in MAME was pushed beyond the limits. Beery

I wonder if there is an issue with the AMA/AMB/AMC decoding. When I turned it off previously, loading ABASIC resulted in what I would call "noises" coming from my speakers. It has been awhile from my memory, but pages >3C, >7C and >BC would respond to speech if the page was not fully decoded on a GenMOD system. On a non-GenMOD system, page >BC would respond. Later versions of MDOS blocked page >BC from the list of available memory pages for a task.

Everything was uppercase, using the latest MAME executable, 64 bit, from the MAME website. My bat file contains the following: mame geneve -colorbus busmouse -peb:slot2 speech -peb:slot4 memex -peb:slot3 horizon -peb:slot5 tirs232 -peb:slot8 hfdc -peb:slot8:hfdc:h1 generic -peb:slot8:hfdc:h2 generic -peb:slot8:hfdc:h3 generic -peb:slot8:hfdc:f3 525dd -peb:slot8:hfdc:f4 525dd -hard1 Bootdisk1.HD -hard2 Bootdisk2.HD -hard3 Bootdisk3.HD -flop1 dsdd1.dsk -flop2 dsdd2.dsk -flop3 dsdd3.dsk -flop4 dsdd4.dsk -peb:slot6 tipi -conn rpi.geneve2 Version 7.40 of MDOS and 4.09 of Abasic.