On this page you'll find all of my past and current projects related to the TI and Geneve. Unfortunately, they need more time and attention than I can afford at most times. Sigh.
This is a collection of current and potential future projects. The objective of this page is to bring together requests and offers in terms of programming or possibly also hardware. Take a look at the wish list page.
Read more on this on the TCPIP99 project page.
The objective is to enable Fractals! to run on the TI-99/4A with V9938 video expansion (80 column card). Currently there are still problems with non-Myarc controllers that are very likely based on lost values in the DSR buffers at >37D8. Unfortunately, I do not have the appropriate equipment to test the routines; if anybody wants to help me by using his TI as a test site, please contact me!
Speecoder V2.0 will eventually combine the German and English version in one program (as is the case with Fractals!). Furthermore, a renovation of the screen interface and a speech string detector is planned that tries to find speech strings in cartridges or programs automatically.
All listed programs are fairware. I would like to thank all users that sent a contribution to me and I want to ask everyone to support all TI fairware authors by paying a small amount to encourage in their work for the TI and Geneve community.
The MDOS program Fractals! (screen shot) is a comfortable tool for generating the so-called Mandelbrot set graphics. It utilizes all features of the Geneve, be it the high resolution graphics in the G6 mode (212 rows, 512 columns, 16 colors), the optimization of the mathematical routines (fix point calculation with the same precision as the built-in floating-point routines) or the usage of the on-chip RAM up to the last byte for registers and time-critical portions of the mathematical routines. The program allows to save the graphics in a special compressed file format adapted to this kind of graphics. Use the mouse to navigate through the functionality; all functions are selectable by pull-down menus. A file manager facilitates the disk access (especially with hard drives and subdirectories). The graphic generation can be interrupted at any time and resumed at that point at a later time. The program includes both English and German texts. (Requirements: Geneve 9640, mouse, disk drive)
Speecoder enables the TI and Geneve user to freely create new speech phrases for the TI speech synthesizer. The program is based on the direct editing capability of the LPC code which can be entered manually, from the vocabulary of the speech synthesizer or from (prepared) disk files. By identifying phonemes in the code, new phrases are built using a cut-copy-paste strategy. The new LPC code can be saved for later use in assembler programs and even as a MERGE file for Extended Basic. Separate language versions for German and English are available. (Requirements: TI-99/4A, 32K memory expansion, speech synthesizer, disk drive; Geneve 9640, disk drive, speech synthesizer with PEB adaptor)
mz, 01-05-1999
