tanam1972 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 And you can play TI SCRAMBLE now. I can play it on japanese pyuuta and ePyuta. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tanam/20170415/1492218987 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Hi I've made RAM & ROM Cartridge for Original Pyuuta. You can play on ePyuta now. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tanam/20171230/1514598212 TINY BASIC Pitfall! Door Door tanam Here are some pics of Tanam's RAM & ROM cartridge and adapter working on my US Tomy Tutor! This one is my overall setup ( my keyboard is bad-bad, so I have a '1', 'down', and 'return' button wired up ) And a couple screen shots of the game "Door Door" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_Door -M@ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 I have got to get some of those. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Matt Are they a multicart for the TOMY? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 That game DoorDoor looks quite fun. Would be interesting to see how it compares to the MSX version. Many of the Tutor games are rather of poor quality, but this one might look worth converting to the TI-99/4A. Could you do a short video on DoorDoor? Would be a primer as I havent found any Youtube video of this game in the Tutor version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanam1972 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 That game DoorDoor looks quite fun. Would be interesting to see how it compares to the MSX version. Many of the Tutor games are rather of poor quality, but this one might look worth converting to the TI-99/4A. Could you do a short video on DoorDoor? Would be a primer as I havent found any Youtube video of this game in the Tutor version. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Wow, that is actually a really cool looking game!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 This is a game recently programmed by Tiny Yarou. I know because I follow him in Twitter @tiny_yarou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 dude, id totally play this on the TI! that is a cool little game. neat that it was done by Enix, too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Thank you for posting the video. Very nice! So this is a homebrew for the tutor? If that is the case I wonder what it would take to get it to run on the TI. Should be possible especially as source code is then available. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Is it a homebrew from 1984 [edit: as the video shows]? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanam1972 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 This is a homebrew for the jp original pyuuta by mr tiny-yarou in 2017. And I've made the binary patch for us tutor. The source code is not available in public. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Matt Are they a multicart for the TOMY? Tanam1972's flash based cartridge and original 16k based boards are 'multi-carts' in that they have 3 jumpers each to allow selecting 1 of 8 banks in the chip to address. The flash based board uses a 256k 29F002 PLCC chip, for 8 banks of 32k byte roms. The 16k board, uses 27C512 eproms for 8 banks of 8k, or 4 banks of 16k roms. -M@ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanam1972 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Hi I've ported G-BASIC YAKYUKEN to RAM & ROM Cartridge2 and SEGA MEGADRIVE with GCC. http://www.geocities.jp/parallel_computer_inc/yakyuken.zip The source code is available ; ) tanam 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Hi people, today I bought a Tomy Pyuuta Tutor (japanese version) for cheap (118 USD including shipping) Normally they are a lot more expensive, I've been watching ebay for more than a year now. The idea is to tinker with it and I would at least like to see my Pitfall version running on it So the question is, can someone point me to the direction where I can get a homebrew cartridge board? Also does anyone know, if it would be possible to turn a japanese Tutor into the american version by swapping ROM's ? Ofcourse would be great if I can swap keyboard too, but I guess that won't be so easy. Also have been wondering; what is the TI machine that comes closest to the Tutor? Would that be the TI-99/4a, TI-99/5 or TI-99/8 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Isn't that a splendid incentive to learn Japanese? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 I can send you some of the test boards I made a few years ago, @Retroclouds. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 I can send you some of the test boards I made a few years ago, @Retroclouds. . . Thanks Ksarul, sounds like a plan. I'll contact you when the Pyuuta has arrived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabrice montupet Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Also have been wondering; what is the TI machine that comes closest to the Tutor? Would that be the TI-99/4a, TI-99/5 or TI-99/8 ? The Tomy Tutor looks more like a Basic Computer 99/2 with more RAM and a VDP 9918A I own a Tomy Tutor (US), a Pyuuta (Japan), a Pyuuta Jr and a dozen of cartridges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jedimatt42 Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 http://atariage.com/forums/topic/274097-ti99-and-tomy-tutor-similarities/?p=3931978 and http://atariage.com/forums/topic/274097-ti99-and-tomy-tutor-similarities/?p=3947053 Let google translate this page for tanam1972's cartridge boards: http://www.geocities.jp/parallel_computer_inc/cart.html -M@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 The Tomy Tutor looks more like a Basic Computer 99/2 with more RAM and a VDP 9918A I own a Tomy Tutor (US), a Pyuuta (Japan), a Pyuuta Jr and a dozen of cartridges. Well yes, but the Tutor runs GPL which the 99/2 doesn't, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabrice montupet Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 (edited) Well yes, but the Tutor runs GPL which the 99/2 doesn't, isn't it? For sure, but the Tutor lacks of a PSI as the 99/2. As very cheap computers, they also share a poor quality, poor electronic design, a unuseable keyboard for programmers. Edited May 22, 2018 by fabrice montupet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kl99 Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 For sure, but the Tutor lacks of a PSI as the 99/2. As very cheap computers, they also share a poor quality, poor electronic design, a unuseable keyboard for programmers. What do you mean with PSI? I am not familiar with this word. There was a Tomy Tutor MKII released in Japan only. It featured basically the same computer, running a better keyboard (and some different ROM?). The Tomy GPL runs from Rom Chips, not Grom Chips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 PSI = Programmable System Interface, the function of the TMS9901. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kl99 Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 PSI = Programmable System Interface, the function of the TMS9901. Thanks for that. Didn't history show, that the TMS9901 actually combined two functions in one chip and therefore made it more expensive than required, once you added additional ports? So each Port got its own TMS9901 chip even though there was no additional CRU functionality required. At least I remember hearing some engineers complaining about that fact. Isn't the DS990-1 also not using any TMS9902, TMS9901 or TIM9904 chips on its boards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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