ball Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Hello. I've been struggling for days trying to get an old game, The Attack, to run in an emulator. I did manage to get it to run in Classic99, but because I have to run it in a windows emulator it runs horribly (an emulator in an emulator). I've since been trying to get it to work with MAME of which I have a couple native builds (Mac, Arm64). I did manage to import this into MAME4mac and it DOES work, but only has breakout and pong: http://ftp.whtech.com/System ROMs/MAME/ti99_complete.zip I then attempted to add this cart, but it complains it doesn't know what system to run it on: https://ftp.whtech.com/Cartridges/MAME/rpk/the_attack.rpk Has anyone here had success with MAME or could point me in the right direction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ball Posted December 9, 2023 Author Share Posted December 9, 2023 Well, heck, I guess I'll answer my own question (in case anyone else gets stuck). Apparently I don't want the rpk but rather the games in this repository: https://ftp.whtech.com/Cartridges/MAME/zip/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ball Posted December 9, 2023 Author Share Posted December 9, 2023 Hm, while attack.zip loaded just fine jawbreak.zip did not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 31 minutes ago, ball said: Hm, while attack.zip loaded just fine jawbreak.zip did not There is another option https://js99er.net/#/ and you should be able to find many games in the software tab and you can load carts like the jawbreak.zip there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 40 minutes ago, ball said: Hm, while attack.zip loaded just fine jawbreak.zip did not It does here. What problem do you get with Jawbreaker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ball Posted December 9, 2023 Author Share Posted December 9, 2023 3 hours ago, mizapf said: It does here. What problem do you get with Jawbreaker? Doesn't show up, so I'm guessing it just isn't recognized as a valid rom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ball Posted December 9, 2023 Author Share Posted December 9, 2023 3 hours ago, RickyDean said: There is another option https://js99er.net/#/ and you should be able to find many games in the software tab and you can load carts like the jawbreak.zip there. I don't see a software tab. Interestingly, this also works with attack.zip but not jawbreaker.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 ./mame ti99_4a -cart jawbreak works for me. But note that the zip file is named "jawbreak.zip". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 @ball also check out the Retrobat forum (or Batocera), it is a front end of emulstation, but it uses Mame64 as emulator and easier to load games (and all .rpk in the file are working). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ball Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 So, in case there is anyone else who ends up in the same boat as me, I did find a solution that actually works really well. You have to do a little finagling to get Ti-99 running, however: 1) Download MAME4Mac 2) Select "Import..." from the file menu and import the Ti-99 package 3) While SOME roms are automagically recognized as Ti-99 (I'm unsure by what magic), some do not. To get Jawbreaker working I had to manually insert jawbreak.zip in the correct folder which is ~/Library/Containers/com.example.mame4ios/Data/Documents/roms/ti99_cart (for some reason Finder presents the 'com.example.mame4ios' folder as 'MAME4Mac'. You can also use command-shift-G and paste this pathname as a quick way to get to it). 4) Energy Saver has a high and low power mode which I believe prioritizes high vs low efficiency cores as well as perhaps ramping up the CPU speed. You need to be on high power mode which is in the battery setting (at least on Ventura) or else the audio will sound frazzled. With high power mode, the emulation is flawless! This app also works well with my PS5 controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 The ZIP files should be found when you place them in the "rompath", see mame.ini. The Magic is the file hash/ti99_cart.xml. What is MAME4Mac? What MAME release is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Child Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 I was reading this thread and saw that he was having problems with jawbreak.zip, I downloaded it from the link above at: https://ftp.whtech.com/Cartridges/MAME/zip/ but it looks like there's a wonky filename inside https://ftp.whtech.com/Cartridges/MAME/zip/jawbreak.zip phm3194g3.zip inside that zip should be phm3194g3.bin You might try these builds of mame for macos: https://sdlmame.lngn.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 32 minutes ago, Golden Child said: You might try these builds of mame for macos: https://sdlmame.lngn.net/ I'd like to find a 262 build for MacOs, Intel version, have you seen it? per chance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Child Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 I don't know about this source, just searching for "macos mame 262" https://emulationrealm.net/downloads/emulators/mac-os/mame/mame-for-macos-intel http://erockus.elementfx.com/arcade.html (has a link to download) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 1 hour ago, Golden Child said: I don't know about this source, just searching for "macos mame 262" https://emulationrealm.net/downloads/emulators/mac-os/mame/mame-for-macos-intel http://erockus.elementfx.com/arcade.html (has a link to download) Cool, hadn't found this one yet, so mayube it'll be usable on my system. sdlmame quit building for the intel machine. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ball Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 On 2/22/2024 at 3:59 AM, mizapf said: The ZIP files should be found when you place them in the "rompath", see mame.ini. The Magic is the file hash/ti99_cart.xml. What is MAME4Mac? What MAME release is it? MAME4Mac is an app you can download if you search the Internet for MAME4Mac https://github.com/yoshisuga/MAME4iOS/releases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Seems as if it were at release 0.250, quite a while back. Except for TIPI support, I did not add new features for the TI since then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ball Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 Does MAME support emulating the speech synth? It's not a huge deal for me except I used to own one. I tried a couple command line options but it doesn't appear to work. Maybe the ROM pack needs something extra? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 mame ti99_4a -ioport peb -ioport:peb:slot3 speech -cart exbasic In Extended Basic, try CALL SAY("HELLO"). As for the scope of emulation, see also https://www.ninermame.org/info/scope 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Child Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 I was trying to get the miner 2049er cartridge running on mame and the ti99_4a driver and noticed that it wouldn't run unless I activated the "Console 32 KiB RAM Upgrade (16 bit)" in the Machine Configuration or added the 32K with -ioport peb -ioport:peb:slot2 32kmem It runs great, just wondered why it needs the 32k expansion? Does it have to do with miner 2049er being a cartridge that plugs into the expansion slot vs the cartridge slot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 54 minutes ago, Golden Child said: I was trying to get the miner 2049er cartridge running on mame and the ti99_4a driver and noticed that it wouldn't run unless I activated the "Console 32 KiB RAM Upgrade (16 bit)" in the Machine Configuration or added the 32K with -ioport peb -ioport:peb:slot2 32kmem It runs great, just wondered why it needs the 32k expansion? Does it have to do with miner 2049er being a cartridge that plugs into the expansion slot vs the cartridge slot? Many carts were designed to use the 32k expansion, such as the EA cart, originally there was a side car 32k unit made by TI, then the PEB box version, now we have a multitude of options for 32k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Child Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 (edited) Hmmm, searched on "Tigervision ti99" and it says on the wikipedia page under games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A Quote Tigervision offered a solution to the memory limitation of the standard cartridge slot in the form of a 24 KB memory expansion cartridge that attached to the side expansion interface, emulating an expansion device. This allowed the company to implement a larger game completely in machine code, which was used for Espial and Miner 2049er. Exceltec also released two similar side cartridges: Arcturus[40] and Killer Caterpillar. Edited March 17 by Golden Child 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 2 minutes ago, Golden Child said: Hmmm, searched on "Tigervision ti99" and it says on the wikipedia page under games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A Tigervision offered a solution to the memory limitation of the standard cartridge slot in the form of a 24 KB memory expansion cartridge that attached to the side expansion interface, emulating an expansion device. This allowed the company to implement a larger game completely in machine code, which was used for Espial and Miner 2049er. Exceltec also released two similar side cartridges: Arcturus[40] and Killer Caterpillar. They looked like this: Pain in the ass if you had a peb as you had to unplug it to plug in the cartridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 7 minutes ago, Golden Child said: Hmmm, searched on "Tigervision ti99" and it says on the wikipedia page under games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A That article needs updating: Quote Until 2006, there was an annual Chicago TI Faire where people celebrated the TI-99 family of computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 I would suggest that if this is still about using the cartridge in Mame, that it be continued in the Mame thread: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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