You were right to push back on this earlier — the original ask was SDL2,
same as RetroPie, and I substituted a different thing (SDL1-compat) without
checking what RetroPie actually does first.
Checked RetroPie's own ti99sim.sh scriptmodule directly: it doesn't build
from billzajac/ti99sim (the GitHub fork the last two attempts used) at
all. It fetches upstream v0.16.0 straight from the original author's own
site (mrousseau.org), applies exactly one trivial patch (a missing
#include <cstring> for modern g++), and builds against libsdl2-dev +
libssl-dev directly — no SDL1 compatibility layer, because that source
genuinely supports SDL2 natively. The GitHub fork used previously was
just a stale, pre-SDL2-port copy under a different account.
Verified the download URL actually serves the real tarball (fetched real
binary content, confirmed the 7zXZ header) and the patch's exact content
before using either — same real-source-first standard as the wolf.sh
fixes earlier this session. Tested the sed insertion that replaces
applying the .diff against a stand-in file matching the patch's real
context before trusting it.
Also documents the exact BIOS-equivalent filename RetroPie's own docs
give for this emulator: TI-994A.ctg (case-sensitive) — a real, useful
detail that was missing before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VLX1yYKJExGSXmgUhxKQG6
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