INTRODUCTION
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TI99Sim is a very good emulator of Thomson TI99 home
computer running on Windows and Unix. The emulator
faithfully imitates the TI99/4 model 
(see http://www.mrousseau.org/programs/ti99sim/)

PSPTI99 is a port on PSP of the version 0.1.0 of
TI99Sim.


CONTROL
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- Virtual keyboard

In the TI99 emulator window, there are three
different mapping (standard, left trigger, and right
Trigger mappings).  
You can toggle between while playing inside the
emulator using the two PSP trigger keys.

  -------------------------------------
  PSP        TI99            (standard)

  Square     Space
  Triangle   ENTER
  Circle     1
  Cross      Joystick Fire
  Up         Up
  Down       Down
  Left       Left 
  Right      Right

  Analog     Joystick

  -------------------------------------
  PSP        TI99   (left trigger)

  Square     Tab 
  Triangle   ENTER
  Circle     2
  Cross      Joystick Fire
  Up         Up
  Down       Down
  Left       Left 
  Right      Right

  -------------------------------------
  PSP        TI99   (right trigger)

  Square     Tab 
  Triangle   ENTER
  Circle     3
  Cross      Joystick Fire
  Up         Up
  Down       Down
  Left       Left 
  Right      Right


  Analog     Joystick
  
  Press Start+L+R   to exit and return to eloader.
  Press Select      to enter in emulator main menu.
  Press Start       open/close the On-Screen keyboard

In the main menu

  RTrigger   Reset the emulator

  Triangle   Go Up directory
  Cross      Valid
  Circle     Valid
  Square     Go Back to the emulator window

The On-Screen Keyboard of "Danzel" and "Jeff Chen"

Use Analog stick to choose one of the 9 squares, and
use Triangle, Square, Cross and Circle to choose one
of the 4 letters of the highlighted square.

Use LTrigger and RTrigger to see other 9 squares
figures.

3.2 - IR keyboard

You can also use IR keyboard. Edit the pspirkeyb.ini
file to specify your IR keyboard model, and modify
eventually layout keyboard files in the keymap
directory.

The following mapping is done :

IR-keyboard   PSP

Cursor        Digital Pad

Tab           Start
Ctrl-W        Start

Escape        Select
Ctrl-Q        Select

Ctrl-E        Triangle
Ctrl-X        Cross
Ctrl-S        Square
Ctrl-F        Circle
Ctrl-Z        L-trigger
Ctrl-C        R-trigger

In the emulator window you can use the IR keyboard to
enter letters, special characters and digits.


LOADING KEY MAPPING FILES
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For given games, the default keyboard mapping between
PSP Keys and TI99 keys, is not suitable, and the game
can't be played on PSPTI99.

To overcome the issue, you can write your own mapping
file. Using notepad for example you can edit a file
with the .kbd extension and put it in the kbd
directory.

For the exact syntax of those mapping files, have a
look on sample files already presents in the kbd
directory (default.kbd etc ...).

After writting such keyboard mapping file, you can
load them using the main menu inside the emulator.

If the keyboard filename is the same as the cartridge
file (.ctg) then when you load this tape file, the
corresponding keyboard file is automatically loaded !

You can now use the Keyboard menu and edit, load and
save your keyboard mapping files inside the emulator.
The Save option save the .kbd file in the kbd
directory using the "Game Name" as filename. The game
name is displayed on the right corner in the emulator
menu.


  Enjoy,

            Zx
