Difference between revisions of "MAME"

Revision as of 19:01, 28 August 2019

MESS (Multiple Emulator Super System) is a multi-system emulator which emulates more than 400 computer systems, many of them from the good old days of the Home Computers. Among them are also a number of TI platforms:

TI-99/2 (24K and 32K ROM version)
TI-99/4, 50 Hz and 60 Hz
TI-99/4A, 50 Hz and 60 Hz
TI-99/4QI, 50 Hz and 60 Hz
TI-99/8
Geneve 9640

A number of peripherals are also emulated, ranging from various disk controllers (up to HFDC), to serial interfaces, USB interface, IDE interface, HSGPL, and also SGCPU.

The emulator is freely downloadable from mamedev.org as a pre-built binary for Windows systems, and as a source zip archive for all platforms.

You can download and work on the MAME source codes, since all MAME components have been relicenced under an open-source licence (BSD or GPL). If you want to contribute, you should get in contact with the maintainers, though. A good location for that is the MESS message board.

I would be happy to see more people from the TI community helping to improve the TI emulation in MESS.

Installing and setup

Using

Questions and Troubleshooting

Some help for MESS Troubleshooting.
Frequently Asked Questions related to the TI/Geneve emulation in MESS.
Change MESS menu mode key from Scroll Lock to another key
Hassle with the MESS keyboard modes

Details

Basics: Emulation and Simulation
Get a look under the hood of MESS NEW
The cartridge system of MESS
Programmer's Guide to MESS
MAME version history with features, fixes, and regressions list
MESS issues
RS232 emulation
MESS Work in progress
MAME Internals
Floppy sound emulation

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 * [https://www.mizapf.de/ti99/mame/winstmame Installing on Windows systems]
 * [[Installing MAME on Linux|Installing on Linux systems]]
-* [[TI ROM dumps for MESS|Getting the ROMs]]
+* [https://www.mizapf.de/en/ti99/mame/ Getting the ROMs]
 * [[Setting up the HSGPL for MAME]]
 * [[Setting up the Horizon Ramdisk]]