How to Install Tipi on Windows 10

Tipi is a command line tool that lets you run TIPS (TMS9900 processor) software on modern hardware. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the steps to install Tipi on Windows 10.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you need to make sure that the following prerequisites are met:

  • A Windows 10 PC
  • Git installed on your system
  • Visual C++ 2015 or later installed

Step 1: Install Git

If you haven't installed Git on your system, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Git download page at https://git-scm.com/download/win
  2. Click the 64-bit or 32-bit version (depending on your system) of "Git for Windows"
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Git on your system

Step 2: Install Visual C++ 2015 or later

Tipi requires Visual C++ 2015 or later to be installed on your system. If you haven't installed it yet, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Visual Studio C++ download page at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
  2. Scroll down to the "Tools for Visual Studio 2019" section and click the "Download" button
  3. Run the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions to install Visual C++ on your system

Step 3: Install Tipi

Now that you have Git and Visual C++ installed, you can install Tipi:

  1. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator
  2. Navigate to the directory where you want to install Tipi
  3. Clone the Tipi repository by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/meienberger/runtipi.git
  1. Navigate to the "runtipi" directory by running the following command:
cd runtipi
  1. Build Tipi by running the following command:
msbuild /p:Configuration=Release runtipi.sln

Step 4: Test Tipi

Now that you have installed Tipi, you can test it by running the following command:

./bin/Release/tipi.exe

You should see the Tipi command line interface:

Tipi version 3.3.0
(c) 2013-2021 by Reto Koenig and Manuel Meienberger
http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/TI-99/Tipi
tipi>

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Tipi on your Windows 10 PC.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we walked you through the steps to install Tipi on Windows 10. Now you can run TIPS software on your modern hardware.