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TI-99

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Overview

Introduced in 1981 by Texas Instruments, the TI-99 was a computer system.

Technical specifications

  • CPU: Texas Instruments TMS9900 16-bit processor clocked at 3.0 MHz.
  • Memory: 256 bytes of scratchpad RAM with additional 64 KB of shared RAM and cartridge expansion slots.
  • Display: Texas Instruments TMS9918A video chip delivering 256×192 resolution with 16 colors and hardware sprites.
  • Sound: TMS9919 PSG offering three square-wave channels and programmable noise.

Supported ROM extensions

rpk, wav, zip, 7z

Emulators

  • mame (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_MAME, BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_LIBRETRO_MAME
  • mame (mame) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_MAME, BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_MAME

Notes

Requires MAME BIOS file ti99_4a.zip Cartridges need to be in .rpk format and unzipped if not using software lists.

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml