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TI-99/4
- Hey, Ken. I was just wondering what you do with your TI-99/4. It sais on your website that you still have it. Do your program or play games on it anymore, or do you let it just sit there in a dusty closet in your house? As for me, I'm still addicted to TI Invaders even after all these years. :wink:
- No, I don't program on it anymore! It sits in the corner of the other room collecting dust. Every few years, I turn it on just to see if it still works. I tried it just now - and everything works except for a few of the keys on right half of the keyboard. Due to the fact that the 'I' key is blown, it's impossible to type commands such as 'PRINT' or 'LIST'. Fortunately, most cartridge games don't require those keys. My favorite cartridges are: Pole Position, A-Maze-Ing, Blasto, and of course TI Invaders. I still play in "merely aggressive" mode because I'm more interested in seeing the higher level aliens than having bragging rights.
- I actually used to have one, but it broke and I threw it out. A few weeks ago I found an emulator for it and have been playing on it. Right now I'm bidding on one at ebay and I'm still the highest bidder. I really hope I get it. It would surely bring back the memories. I used to sit in my room for hours playing that thing! Well atleast untill I got my Nintendo! Then I let it rot under the bed in my room. Hey ken, did you ever program on it? I remember programming on it a lot. I had the Basic Extended cartridge.
Hey ken, did you ever program on it?
Yes, of course! I never had the TI Extended Basic cartridge though. You might enjoy reading this old newspaper article from 1984. It mentions how my brother and I were working on a pacman game at the time.
Many years ago, I converted that game to PC. Here's a compiled QuickBasic executable of it: http://www.advsys.net/ken/pacman.exe If you try it, you'll notice the monsters don't move. That's not a bug : P- Nice game! I made a little math game on there a long time ago. I could easily port it to pc using c++.
My TI-99 /4A had joysticks. Does yours? And do you have that cool little thing that lets you record programs on to cassette?
The only old computer that I like better than a TI-99 /4A is a commadore 64. Ever use one of those? I still have mine in perfect codition.
And one last question. Did you hear about the TI-99 /8. I don't know much about it but I heard they had it all done but they never started to sell it. There really rare. My TI-99 /4A had joysticks. Does yours?
Yes, it came with 2, but the original joysticks don't really work anymore. A long time ago, my dad (and older brother) managed to wire up a different set of joysticks - and it works fine with them.And do you have that cool little thing that lets you record programs on to cassette?
Yes, that's how I saved all my programs.commadore 64. Ever use one of those?
Yes, but I never owned one.Did you hear about the TI-99 /8.
There were some rare versions before the /4A as well. It's interesting stuff, but I forget the details.- Cool. I have another question for ou. Did you ever use that one cassette (I forgot what it was called) that let you basically go online? It let you view things like the weather and stocks.
- No. I never heard of such a thing.
Munch Man
The silver panelling on my Ti99/4A is bent back on one corner. I guess that's what happens when you dump it in a closet for 20 years. I'm really pretty annoyed with myself for that.
Still, despite the aesthetics, it still works OK.
I only ever had Munch Man and Video Chess. I led a boring childhood! I really used it more for programming TI Basic than anything, and used the Amstrad CPC 6128 I got a few years later for games.