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Title: Solved Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: crashdogy on August 14, 2015, 09:09:19 pm: need help or a good guild to setting up Texas Instruments TI-99/4A using Mess or RetroArch ? :banghead:
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: pbj on August 15, 2015, 12:15:09 am: Oh god. Just.... No. I had one and.... No.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: crashdogy on August 15, 2015, 12:46:37 am: Well I had one when I was 6-7 and now im 40, I have managed to get it working playing tunnels of doom with my brother and and totally reminiscing :)
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: Ginsu Victim on August 15, 2015, 12:47:27 am: Quote from: pbj on August 15, 2015, 12:15:09 am
Oh god. Just.... No. I had one and.... No.

I still have mine. What was so wrong with it? It hasn't aged well, but back then, Parsec and Hunt the Wumpas were classics. It was also nice to learn BASIC on it.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: epetti on August 15, 2015, 11:36:35 am: Have it set up and working well with MESSMo with there was save state or high score saving of some sort for it, but otherwise works great.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: crashdogy on August 15, 2015, 12:15:08 pm: Can't get it to work in Rlauncher error unknown -cart1 alpiner.rpk-peb:slot
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: epetti on August 15, 2015, 02:24:21 pm: Do you know the exact command it's trying to run?
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: crashdogy on August 15, 2015, 04:02:26 pm: no not sure working fine in messui .164 but cant get anything to launch in Rlauncher sees games but flashes black screen and then nothing. :banghead:
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: Slippyblade on August 15, 2015, 04:36:24 pm: I was totally backwards. When I first read the OP I thought he was trying to get MAME to work on the TI-99. Oops.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: epetti on August 15, 2015, 05:21:08 pm: Hmm. Sorry, I don't know anything about rlauncher.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: crashdogy on August 15, 2015, 08:14:57 pm: Well finally was able to update my RocketlauncherUI and all is work as it should system now running perfectly.
Title: Re: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: ark_ader on August 16, 2015, 04:41:10 am: Quote from: pbj on August 15, 2015, 12:15:09 am
Oh god. Just.... No. I had one and.... No.

Why?

It was the first 16 bit computer I got to program on. Then my friends all got Atari 800 and I went " Oh God no...." but when you are 12 you got what you were given. I eventually got the expansion box, memory and floppy disc drive which got CPM up and running. :blah:
Title: Re: Solved Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: pbj on August 16, 2015, 09:37:39 am: I owned it well after it was obsolete, so it was just something to mess around with. It was fun to play with but the experience never felt very polished. I do find it amusing that it's probably the only computer out there that had official software released to dump the cartridges onto floppies. All of the modules and accessories were three times the size they needed to be. Plug in the speech modulator and the P-box and it was taking up half a desk.

Can't remember playing much of anything on it besides Parsec.

In the early 90s, the Apple IIe was a better $20 purchase.
Title: Re: Solved Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Post by: Ginsu Victim on August 16, 2015, 09:10:16 pm: Quote from: pbj on August 16, 2015, 09:37:39 am
In the early 90s, the Apple IIe was a better $20 purchase.

Well, ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---....that's obvious. I had mine in 1982.