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• Floppy Disk and Hard Disk Controller Cards
  ...re, so it was merely necessary to provide a disk controller card while the disk drive could be selected from a broad selection of third-party drives. ...ystem. Moreover, [[TI BASIC]] and [[Extended BASIC]] are well prepared for disk usage, so this was a wise investment.
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• CorComp
  ...orComp Double-Density Floppy Disk Controller|CorComp Double-Density Floppy Disk Controller]]
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• Myarc
  ...c Extended BASIC II]] was an extended extended basic requiring a module, a disk system, and a specially chipped Myarc expansion memory. ...s#Myarc Personality Card|Myarc Personality Card]]: This was the first hard disk controller for the TI-99/4A
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• Open MESS issues
  === TI-99/8 Extended Basic II with selected floppy controller locks up on start === ...then the emulator is trapped in an endless loop. This does not occur if no floppy controller is active.<br/>
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• Emulate File format
  ...th their HFDC system. They may be used in cases where the reference to the disk drive is hard-coded into the program, not allowing to run the program from ...the emulate file which it then uses to track the location of each virtual disk sector.
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• TI Disk format
  the Floppy Disk File System and the Hard Disk File System
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• Disk images
  ...but files in a computer are a sequence of bytes, so we have to arrange the floppy content somehow. Floppy disks have a structured storage area, as shown here. We cannot see these st
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• Hard disk drive
  ...ing System", by the fact that the operating system had to be loaded from a disk rather than being burned into ROMs. In the early days, DOS was distributed Around 1988, Myarc created and sold the Hard and floppy disk controller card which finally allowed to attach the new inexpensive hard di
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• Floppy Disk and Hard Disk Controller Cards
  ...re, so it was merely necessary to provide a disk controller card while the disk drive could be selected from a broad selection of third-party drives. ...ystem. Moreover, [[TI BASIC]] and [[Extended BASIC]] are well prepared for disk usage, so this was a wise investment.
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• TI-99 sidecar expansion
  ...pheral, may be vapor ware. Each of the devices, with the exception of the Disk Controller, allows the bus to pass through to additional peripherals. TI r ...ywhere in the peripheral chain after the Speech Synthesizer and before the Disk Controller.
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• Programming languages
  With a memory expansion and a floppy drive, programming in assembly language becomes possible. From there on, ma * [[Editor/Assembler]] (cartridge, disk), which includes the Editor Assembler dialect of TI BASIC
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• MAME
  A number of peripherals are also emulated, ranging from various disk controllers (up to HFDC), to serial interfaces, USB interface, IDE interfac ** [[MESS media handling#Setting_up_a_blank_hard_disk|Setting up a blank hard disk]]
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• Peripheral Expansion System
  ...taining eight slots for peripheral expansion cards and a compartment for a floppy drive or two drives of half height ("slim-line", slim as understood in the ...supply is designed to supply all cards including up to two floppy drives. Floppy drives may be put into the right compartment of the box.
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• GeneveOS Utility Functions
  Accessing devices (floppy disk, hard disk, serial connector, printer) is possible in GeneveOS via XOP calls.
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• Geneve drive remapping
  REMAP allows a disk I/O device to be mapped to any DSK1...DSK9 device number. Usage is as follo | Floppy #1
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• Sector Dump Format
  ...fined as a concatenation of all sector contents in logical sequence. These disk image files are typically suffixed with ".dsk" or ".DSK". Note that the [[T ...e ''physical sequence'' of sectors per track. The sectors on a real floppy disk are arranged by an interleave per track, with a skew from track to track. S
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• MESS DIP switches
  You may also select which [[Floppy Disk and Hard Disk Controller Cards|disk controller]] you wish to emulate in a similar manner.
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• Booting MDOS from Horizon Ramdisk
  * The ramdisk disk must be assigned DSK6 during the boot process * The ability to boot into MDOS from some other device, such as a floppy on DSK1.
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• Fixed MESS problems
  ''Reason'': In the MESS core, the image handling and the floppy drive handling underwent substantial restructuring. The problem is that the ''Solution'': Introduced a new flag in the device description of the floppy and a test on that flag.
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• Hardware
  === Floppy drives === [[Floppy Disk and Hard Disk Controller Cards]]
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• Troubleshooting
  == Disk-related issues == ...be defect, the floppy disk scratched, the cables broken. Also, the floppy disk may require to be reformatted or replaced. This error is not caused by an i
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• MESS media handling
  MESS requires floppy image files, that is, the contents of the whole disk must be stored in a single file. There are two supported formats, the [[Sec * Use '''imgtool''' to create a SDF-formatted blank disk.
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• MAME Floppy sound emulation
  ...e 64 was well known for its superb games, but also for its dreadfully slow floppy drive, the C1541. When we dediced to play some of the bigger games, we ofte ...k productively, saving long texts or assembling or compiling programs, the floppy operation still was annoyingly slow.
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• Gram Kracker usage
  == Saving a cartridge to disk == We have to save the contents of a cartridge to disk before we can edit and load them later. We need to start the TI with the Gr
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• TI-99/4A system usage
  ...be lost when exiting BASIC unless you save it to [[cassette]] or to floppy disk: If you want to retrieve your program from the data storage (cassette or disk), use the OLD command:
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• Setting up the Horizon Ramdisk
  ...MiB of SRAM. The emulation will respond to the equivalent speed of the RAM disk on actual hardware. ...will be limited to 1600. ROS 8.32 and higher allows for 3200 sectors per disk.</div>
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• MESS wish list
  ...eripheral access should be emulated as well. It would also be nice to hear floppy activity to give a "real feeling". === Create disk image from file ===
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• Features of the TI and Geneve emulation in MESS
  === Disk controllers === * The original TI DSSD disk controller card with the FDC1771 controller chip. This card cannot read 360
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• Installing MAME on Windows
  ...basic) or peripheral devices (-ioport peb -ioport:peb:slot8 hfdc), and add floppy disks (-flop1 mydisk.dsk). External 32K memory expansion, TI floppy controller, myfloppyimage.dsk inserted in DSK1
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• MAME TI emulation usage
  ...into them, but if you want to keep with the real box, you should plug the disk controller into slot 8, because there is a gap in the chassis to connect th | SNUG BwG Floppy Controller
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• MAME version history
  | All disk formats (DSK, DTK, HFE) allow for 16 sectors/track; HX5102 working with 99/ | Fixed interrupt latching in 9995 (for 99/2); OSD blank disk creation; double-sided disks with HX5102
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• PHA
  *PHA2623 External disk drive cable *PHA2625 Internal disk drive cable
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• Media
  ...es the file is usually a memory image file. If you don't have a PEB with a Disk Drive then using a cassette is your most affordable solution. ...data is not available on other media and has not yet been copied to floppy disk or other media. Or just for the nostalgic feeling.
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• Installing MESS
  === Use floppy disks === ...'' are, accordingly, 90K in size for a SSSD disk and 360K for a DSDD disk. Disk images are expected to have the suffix '''dsk'''.
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• TI-99/8 Peripherals
  ...her than HexBus allows. This minor limitation is most noticeable with the Floppy Drive/Controller. === Double-Sided, Double-Density Hex-Bus 5.25 Inch Floppy Drive/Controller ===
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• Technical details
  ...ted log when [[SSSD Format Log|formatting a SSSD floppy disk]] with the TI disk controller. Actually, this dump was achieved using MESS and putting in some * [[Hard disk track layout]] when created with the HFDC
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• Track Dump Format
  ...p Format is used in the PC99 emulator. It contains all data bytes from all disk tracks. Unlike the [[Sector Dump Format]], this format stores the tracks "t The total length of a track and the length of a DSSD disk (180 KiB) thus calculates as
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• Editor/Assembler
  ...st important cartridges for the TI system. Together with the two companion floppy disks (one contains source code for a TI games module) it provides an Integ ...or/Assembler you require memory expansion, disk interface and at least one disk drive.
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• File systems
  == Floppy Disk File System == Floppy file systems had no notion of subdirectories for most of the time. Disk controllers like the Myarc FDC and HFDC introduced a directory scheme where
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• SSSD Format Log
  This is a transcript of a formatting procedure with Disk Manager 2 and a single-sided, single-density diskette. We can find the comm * Attempt to read the inserted disk
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• Geneve 9640
  ...un on the Geneve without any modification. Cartridges have to be copied to disk as the Geneve does not offer a cartridge slot. ...similarities to other known operating systems, was named '''MDOS''' (Myarc Disk Operating System).
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• Extended Basic II Issues
  ...II, the computer clears the screen and locks up. This only happens when a floppy controller card is available. If you check the source code of the TI disk controller (for instance, on [[Thierry|Thierry
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• Emulators
  ...sually make use of image files to represent the data medium (like a floppy disk) and make the ROM "believe" it sees the real medium. This requires all oper You can use more than one emulation, and in most cases module and disk files are more or less interchangeable between emulations, or easily conver
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• TI Forth
  ...system, 32k, and EITHER Editor/Assembler OR Extended Basic .... (separate disk for ExBas version). You receive your disk with TI FORTH on it.
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• Development resources
  : TI99 filemanager for windows. Great for transferring disk images to the TI-99/4A. : TI-99/4A floppy disks on a PC. You will be able to transfer your real TI floppy disks
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• SNUG
  * Supports up to four disk drives ...nse to the collapse of Atronic as a local source for Double-Density floppy disk controllers.
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• GeneveOS Device Operation
  Accessing devices (floppy disk, hard disk, serial connector, printer) is possible in GeneveOS via XOP calls. (The author lost a complete hard disk by this incident, and was lucky to have a backup.)
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• Terminology
  '''Disk''': A mass storage device capable of random and sequential access. '''FDC''': - [[Floppy Disk and Hard Disk Controller Cards|Floppy Disk Controller]]
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• Frequently Asked Questions
  ...ations, a Disk Controller (DSSD) to access drives and a standard 5.25 SSDD floppy drive (a 180K-drive with a maximum usage of 90K with this controller). Ther * DSDD Disk Controller - to support DSDD 3.5" or 5.25" drives.
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• Programmable Systems Interface TMS 9901
  ...Geneve computer, and also on some peripheral cards like the Corcomp Floppy Disk Controller.
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• Programming FAQ
  Hardware: TI-99/4a with 32K Memory Expansion and at least one floppy drive. Programming: You use the Editor program to write A/L SOURCE code, save it to disk as a D/V80 file, and then use the Assembler program to assemble it into A/L
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