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[sharapos]

I just start to use Win994a simulator (version 3009) with Vista , I download and unzip the tapes.zip file from whtech. The problem is when I try to insert a tape in win994a I have an error : see image capture below . Where I am wrong ?

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[Willsy]

Make sure the files are in the Tapes directory:

C:\Program Files\BurrSoft\Win994a\Tapes

Also, make sure your user login has permission to use the files.

Mark

[sharapos]

Willsy, on Sun Jun 12, 2011 5:32 AM, said:

Make sure the files are in the Tapes directory:

C:\Program Files\BurrSoft\Win994a\Tapes

Also, make sure your user login has permission to use the files.

Mark

The files are in the Tapes directory. For the permission how I know whether I have the login. When I double-click a tape,
it opens in the disk manager window.

[kimby]

Hi, all. I'm new, and I wasn't sure whether I should start a new thread or reply to this one. Anyway, I too am having trouble with tapes.

I removed the Read-Only check in the Properties for each tape file, and that made me able to insert a tape and even rewind it. But after that, I have no idea what to do. Once the tape is inserted, the only option I get is to press 1 for Basic. After I do that, what do I type to get to the tape? The tapes are all in the Tapes directory. It's been many years since I've used the TI994a, and I remember very little about the commands.

[Gazoo]

kimby, on Mon Dec 5, 2011 4:18 PM, said:

Hi, all. I'm new, and I wasn't sure whether I should start a new thread or reply to this one. Anyway, I too am having trouble with tapes.

I removed the Read-Only check in the Properties for each tape file, and that made me able to insert a tape and even rewind it. But after that, I have no idea what to do. Once the tape is inserted, the only option I get is to press 1 for Basic. After I do that, what do I type to get to the tape? The tapes are all in the Tapes directory. It's been many years since I've used the TI994a, and I remember very little about the commands.

From Basic: OLD CS1 or OLD CS2
From E\A option 5: CS1 or CS2


Gazoo

[kimby]

Okay, when I type in OLD CS1 or OLD CS2, I get I/O error 50. Do you know what that means?

[Gazoo]

kimby, on Mon Dec 5, 2011 11:38 PM, said:

Okay, when I type in OLD CS1 or OLD CS2, I get I/O error 50. Do you know what that means?

What happens when you use the same tape with E\A option 5?


Gazoo

[Willsy]

First, reset the tape position counter to 0.

Then select TI BASIC
Then type OLD CS1
Press ENTER
The tape will load.

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Here's a test tape image. Place this in the TAPES folder (C:\Program Files\BurrSoft\Win994a\Tapes)

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The tape contains a small test program for TI BASIC.

Hope this helps

Mark

[kimby]

Thanks for the answers. I wasn't able to find the e/a option, but I did download and insert the test tape and it worked! Then I loaded a disk and that seems to have worked too. Thanks.

Anyway, then I inserted the Disk "Pirate Adventure". It loads, but then says, "Error - No Data Found". Is there any way I can make it work? It's been a while since I downloaded the Disk files, so I don't remember exactly where I got them, but I was under the impression that it was the official Win994a site and that they were all working files. Another confusing thing is that it says "Rewind Casette Tape" as though it were a tape.

[Gazoo]

kimby, on Wed Dec 7, 2011 1:55 AM, said:

Thanks for the answers. I wasn't able to find the e/a option, ...

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Press 5 from here and then enter CS1 on the next screen.

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Gazoo

[kimby]

How do I get to that Editor/Assembler screen?

Still having trouble with loading a disk file. I need to brush up on my TI Basic to be able to use this program better, but I can't load the Teach Yourself Basic Disk.

[RXB]

Use the RXB Cartridge that comes with Win994a latest update.

CALL BASIC takes you to Basic or RXB runs Basic (but without Assembly support) or CALL EA puts you in the EA module.
(This works on RXB 2001 or RXB 2012)

I prefer to run Basic from RXB as you can do a CALL CAT(1) to catalog a disk drive or CALL SIZE from a running program to see the size while running Basic.
(Makes debugging and editing much more easy, watch my video on the RXB / GKXB Editor built into RXB)

Edited by RXB, Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:36 PM.

[Gazoo]

kimby, on Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:57 PM, said:

How do I get to that Editor/Assembler screen?
...

Click Carts.

Click Insert Cartridge.

Highlight Editor Assembler in Cartridge Selection list.

Click Insert Cart.

Press any key.

Press 2 for EDITOR/ASSEMBLER.




It may help for you to play around with the menus and find out what everything does there before trying to load tapes and disks.




Gazoo

[kimby]

Thanks for the help. I have opened the E/A screen and checked out the different options. But the weird thing is that no matter what I try, it doesn't work. Like in the Assembler screen, it says Dsk#.ASSM1, and when I press Enter, I just get an I/o error. The only thing I have been able to do successfully so far is play games (on cartridge files).

[RXB]

You have to put the disk images on DSK it does not come with programs on disk you have to put then there.