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A New 68k Emulator
Posted by Michael on 23 May 2005, 20:34 GMT

For the past few years, the perpetually popular Virtual TI has been declining in usefulness with the release of newer, unsupported calculators such as the TI-89 Titanium and Voyage 200. Now there is a new emulator that aims to emulate the 89, 89 Titanium, 92, 92+, and Voyage 200: TiEmu. The v2.0 release candidate of TiEmu has just been released by Romain Liévin and Kevin Kofler. This emulator will thoroughly emulate any of the 68k calculators with all the fancy features we've come to expect in an emulator, such as saving states, linking, and debugging. But wait, there's more! TiEmu is multiplatform, with Linux and Windows versions as well as a Mac OS X port in progress. The Windows version requires the GTK+ package.

As this is a release candidate, please report any bugs to the authors.

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roms  Account Info
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Please reports bugs on the Bug Tracker as explained on the TiEmu web site. The forum is not the right location !

Reply to this comment    24 May 2005, 09:33 GMT

Re: A New 68k Emulator
akadajet  Account Info

After updating GTK+ I still can't start it. I guess I don't see the point of GTK+, there are other cross-platform libraries that use native widgets, and don't leave dangling tooltips.

Reply to this comment    24 May 2005, 14:29 GMT


Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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What errors do you get? Have you tried the latest (2.6.7-rc1) from http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net ?

Reply to this comment    24 May 2005, 17:46 GMT

Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
akadajet  Account Info

And here I thought what I had downloaded was the latest. That works now, thanks!

Reply to this comment    24 May 2005, 18:52 GMT


Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
danbert23  Account Info

I got the GTK+ release specified (2.6.7-rc1) and installed it and TIEmu on my Windows XP computer. However, I now get the following error:

The procedure entry point gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_utf8 could not be located in the dynamic link library libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll.

which is different than the error I got with GTK+ 2.6.4-rc3

What is wrong? What can/should I do?

Reply to this comment    25 May 2005, 22:57 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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Err, you're sure that you have 2.6.7-rc1? And that you don't have some old version lying around and getting the preference in the search path?

Reply to this comment    25 May 2005, 23:22 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
danbert23  Account Info

Yes, quite sure... I did have an old version, but uninstalled it and installed the latest version. To make sure the old version was gone, I edited all files with text 'gtk' and deleted all old registry keys before installing the new version. I still get the same error. Oddly, the very same installer program worked perfectly on my older Win98 PC (hmmmm)

Reply to this comment    28 May 2005, 01:54 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Ultra_64  Account Info

I have a similar problem: I have Win XP Home, all the necessary cables (except parallel or any other older ones), like Silver USB and Black Graph Link... TI-86, TI-89 (HW 2, AMS version 2.09), and TI-89 Titanium
(HW3, AMS version 3.01).

When I ran the TIEmu software, I got this error message:
The procedure entry point gdk_pixbuf_save_utf8 could not be located in the dynamic link library libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.0.dll.

Is there something I'm missing that needs to be run w/o problems? Thanks.

Willy

Reply to this comment    26 May 2005, 04:47 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Ultra_64  Account Info

Nevermind my comment. I guess that I had forgotten to download the GTK package files from the website (survey/news posted recently), so I'm ok. Problem is: is there a way to download a TI-86 rom and TI-89 Titanium rom? Of course, I have those 3 necessary calculators: TI-86 (rom version 1.6), TI-89 (HW2, AMS version 2.09), and TI-89 Titanium (HW3, AMS version 3.01). Thanks.

Willy

Reply to this comment    27 May 2005, 00:28 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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For the TI-89 Titanium, you can download the Flash upgrade from TI's website. The TI-86 is a Z80 calculator and thus not supported by TiEmu, see the comments about TiLEM.

Reply to this comment    27 May 2005, 00:30 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Ultra_64  Account Info
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I forgot to mention that I'm running Windows XP Home, so downloading and/or running TiLEM is out of the question, right?

At least, running TiEMU is working fine. Again, I wonder why it won't run when I had the TI-86 rom dump. I'll have to re-read the text documents/help files according to TiEMU.

Willy

Reply to this comment    27 May 2005, 02:48 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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As has been mentioned elsewhere in these discussion pages, there's a Windows port of TiLEM in the goes, and a slightly outdated binary is already available.

Reply to this comment    27 May 2005, 08:03 GMT

Re: A New 68k Emulator
Paul Houser Account Info
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TiEmu isn't exactly new... it's been around for years as the Linux alternative to VTI.

Reply to this comment    24 May 2005, 17:09 GMT


Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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Yes, but TiEmu II is very different from TiEmu 1. It is not a complete rewrite, but some important parts have indeed been rewritten, and others have been improved a lot. IMHO, it definitely merits the new major version number and the newsitem. (But of course, technically you're right, it's not a "new emulator", it's a "new major version of an emulator with lots of improvements".)

Reply to this comment    24 May 2005, 17:45 GMT


Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
burntfuse  Account Info
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Close enough.

Reply to this comment    24 May 2005, 20:54 GMT

Required GTK+ version
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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The version linked to in the news article is actually not recent enough to run VTI. The correct version is 2.6.7-rc1 (which is what the binaries were compiled with), not 2.6.4-rc3 (which is older and won't work). Just change "2.6.4-rc3" to "2.6.7-rc1" in the link to get the correct one.

Reply to this comment    25 May 2005, 13:19 GMT

Re: Required GTK+ version
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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Oops, I mean TiEmu, not VTI, of course. (Too bad you can't edit your messages here...)

Reply to this comment    25 May 2005, 13:20 GMT


Re: Required GTK+ version
roms  Account Info
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Please accept my apologies for this mistake ;-(

Reply to this comment    25 May 2005, 15:31 GMT

Re: A New 68k Emulator
sigma  Account Info

>The Windows version requires the GTK+ package.

As Jon Lovitz's character as the ultra-perfectionist director in the Simpson's episode 8F18 said, "thank you for nothing."

Reply to this comment    25 May 2005, 23:11 GMT

Re: A New 68k Emulator
PpHd  Account Info
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You can also use the official debian package of tiemu.
See the URL above or http:// packages.debian.org/ unstable/ math/ tiemu (remove spaces).

Reply to this comment    26 May 2005, 07:51 GMT


Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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But that's not RC1, it's an older snapshot.

Reply to this comment    26 May 2005, 15:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
PpHd  Account Info
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Yes, but it is fun to found a m68k build of tiemu :D

Reply to this comment    27 May 2005, 07:45 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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It's also horribly inefficient on the 68k. You don't use an emulator written in C to emulate a 68k on a 68k if you care at all about performance, you use something written in assembly. For example, the abcd instruction implemented in C is just slow as h*ll compared to what it could be on the 68k (a single instruction, plus another one to save the flags).

Reply to this comment    27 May 2005, 08:06 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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PS: Maybe that could be a fun project, write a TI-92 I emulator for the Voyage 200. :-) The 1 MB ROM of the TI-92 I fits nicely into the V200 archive even if split in an inefficient way. The RAM also fits nicely.

Reply to this comment    27 May 2005, 08:09 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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PPS: Oh, it should even fit into a TI-92+ with PedroM. That would sure stop all the complaints about PedroM not having a CAS, not having TI-BASIC or whatever. ;-) Except of course for the poor TI-89 users who can't emulate a TI-92 I properly with their small screen. :-(

Reply to this comment    27 May 2005, 08:12 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
CajunLuke  Account Info
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Sucks for the 89 owners. I couldn't handle the dearth of keys and itsy-bitsy screen when compared to my v200, even for the smaller form factor and USB.

Reply to this comment    27 May 2005, 13:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A New 68k Emulator
PpHd  Account Info
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Fun. :)

Reply to this comment    29 May 2005, 10:00 GMT

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