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I hope you are well and haven't forgotten about us! More TI 99/4a videos, please. 😄

Thanks for doing this. Never could figure this one out. Loved all the Scott Adams adventures, had to have the adventure cartridge then load them with cassettes if i remember right. This was the only one that was a stand alone adventure cartridge and with images.

1979 was the best...great video..p system

Just got my cassette delivered today!!! Can't wait to load it up and play it, thanks!!

Wow, I had totally forgotten about this game! When I was a kid I found what I thought was a bug and called the support number. I was connected to one of the authors and we talked for a long time! Later I wrote a level editor for TI-Runner after reverse engineering the save format, and then after college I worked for a while in video games, including writing the MMORPG Meridian 59 (which I still run). So cool that this is still around.

Hi PixelPendant (and anyone else reading this). I can see from your channel that you are an avid gamer on the TI99/4a and it was by watching one of your videos that I became aware of Harry Wilhelm's XB256. I wanted to write a game taking the opportunity for parallax scrolling and I couldn't think of any game that did it better than MOON PATROL. I used to love Moon Patrol in the arcades but I felt that Atarisoft had under-used the capabilities of the TI99/4a. for example , the sprites were not only blocky (like magnify,4) but also monochrome. so I thought I would have a go at writing a Moon Patrol clone primarily for classic 99 in extended basic Plus XB256. the result is LUNA EXPLORER, if you would like to have a look at it I have posted the files on AtariAge Forum. here is the link forums.atariage.com/topic/366553-luna-explorer-a-better-moon-patrol-in-xb256/

Rewatching this and enjoying it all over again. Thanks again for all the excellent videos.

I need to get an AI Avatar as well. I'm not a big camera guy either.

40 years later Space Bandits gets ported to the Intellivision by the same guy who ported Parsec to Intellivision. ua-cam.com/video/EfWDoACSyso/v-deo.htmlsi=ISyZm7dJRXXh3S3R

I tried it and I couldnt get it to work. ❤

can the peb actually work stading up like a tower, or will the weight of the cards damage the slots unless they are stacked together

Watch the video at 240p for a more CRT-like experience.

Do you recall, or own, a Space Invaders-like game that was included with the Editor Assembler package in addition to Tombstone City? It ran in both Extended Basic and Assembler and obviously the latter was much faster. The aliens trickled down from the top of the screen, I think falling off a ledge to start. As you shot them they turned into "bricks," blocking their path down. I think they also sped up as you eliminated more of them. You would win by trapping the aliens above the wall you created as you shot them. I cannot find any mention of this game anywhere and I cannot remember the name. I played it endlessly in the summer of '84 or '85. Sadly, I sold my whole TI setup when I bought a Compaq 286 to replace it around '88. I had the PEB and a third party RAM Disk. Tunnels of Doom, Car Wars, and a snake game like Hustle that I can't remember the name were my other favorites. Did all of my college papers on TI-Writer, learning to use escape codes for fonts and special formatting.

I just bought one of these from my local goodwill, couldn't pass up the opportunity to own a computer twice as old as me. That being said, I have no idea if it works since I don't have an ac adapter for it and finding one is proving to be a challenge. Hopefully it works!

Just came back to this as it's such an interesting one. Am I the inly one that wishes there could be a crowdfunded full cart/box release of Shnozola seeing as it got so far as even having full packaged prototype etc. I think that would be so great to see and the game looks great to me, Q*Bert meets Pacman🙂

But you need extra RAM as a lot of the games require more RAM that available on the TI99/4A.

Why can't an adapter card be used to let you use a TMS9900 in place of a 8086 as the Data/Address lines are multiplexed as on the TMS9900 except for the last 8 bits and replace the BIOS chips with the ROM chips out of the TI99/4A if not why not.

could they not use the hardware multiply and divide instructions to speed things up.

What about using Code::Blocks plus the Toolchain for the gcc toolchain for the TMS9900

I wrote my first TI Basic games back in 1984.Never forget this computer.Unfortunately they were not so quit common here in Germany.But as I got Mechatronic Extended Basic the fun started.Call Sprite etc.

i also heard that scott adams really enjoyed programming on the TI 99/4

seems like TI released alot of home management and personal finance command modules for the 99, along with some educational command modules, most of which were unique to the TI 99/4

like the new look. keep up good work. hope you have a new vid soon. maybe a tier list.

i love your videos. my first computer was a ti. i'm programming tonight. looking forward to more content. maybe a tier ranking of games.

Awesome demo. I love that you show using the joysticks while playing. Are there any other TI-99 games that use dual joysticks?

Thanks for this! Grew up playing this game. Sadly, the MBX hardware is not yet emulated in MAME.

This is just crazy, I wouldn't have thought this possible.

Zaxxon on C64 war auch cool 🤫

Damn, that's cool. Greetings from Finland!

I was lucky enough to get one of these from eBay, 'new in box' with the protective film still attached to the screen.

Does anyone have a copy of "TEXAS INSTRUMENTS PROGRAMMABLE TI-74 Learn Basic Guidebook"? Looking for a copy or good PDF scan. If you were willing to lend, I could get it scanned for the community.

Nice video, thanks. I had one of these as a kid. I tried some programming of text based adventure games. I don't remember much, but they're good memories.

The TI-99/4A was my very first computer. I had gotten it after some friends had gotten the original TI-99/4 (without the "A") which had the chiclet keyboard. I got it mostly because I wanted to write scripts but was also interested in the programming aspects of it. I never got that far with that although I did eventually get ambitious enough to write a metronome program which I hoped might be useful for those playing music. It might even still exist in someone's collection. I was more interested in trying to do something productive with it while my youngest brother only cared about playing games. As far as writing scripts I'm sure you could still use it for that purpose although you'd have to come up with a way of getting your files to other computers for proper formatting. Most of the peripherals were out of reach for me although I might have finally gotten the peripheral expansion box toward the end along with the RS-232 card and disk controller. The closest to this do it yourself experience today is desktop Linux. I found this video quite enjoyable.

The VIC-20 versions of the Scott Adams text adventures had speech synth support, via a speech synthesizer with TTS that connected via serial. It's too bad the TI99 versions didn't support speech synthesis--although, understandable, as it would have taken a lot more effort and expense to develop and include a TTS in the cartridge. I wonder if anyone has hacked speech synth support into the TI99 Scott Adams text adventure engine.

The TI 99, my very first own computer. Yes it was slow. But the TI still is charming for me.

Yes, the TI99(/a) is an example of how you can ruin a design. 1. Take a 16-bit CPU that even allows multitasking, just by changing the workplace register. All other registers were in RAM!!! And connect it to an 8Bit video chip and transfer all data through it. To make it worse, don't write the basic interpreter directly in machine code, but develop a VM that can execute bytecode. What the computer can do becomes visible when you install the 32k RAM expansion and start a reasonable basic. Well, a fast Z80 or 6502 could still outpace him. But when it came to multiprogram execution, the TMS was superior. The CPU is actually a smaller version of a MINI computer (no, not a very small computer, but the performance was above the micro. )

Parsec was one of my favorite games as a kid. But as soon as I got one of these, all my friends had graduated to Kingdom of Kroz on the PC. It would be kinda funny if you wrote kingdom of Kroz on a BASIC like this. For the time, it would be like running supermario on your PC.

Okay, but how many voices does python have built-in??? But thats the language everyone wants to talk about

but haya oh has the best music

I have the pleasure to learn to program in it at school, I created the school computer club to use them on vacations, my game was rescuing parachuters falling to the sea, with a boat, and underwater cannons to make it harder. Speed was a big disappointment but I love that I was able to do it.

"GPL more compact than assembler." Hmmm... That statement depends on pedantry to be true.

Cool! Thanks for the memories.

I've just acquired a TI99/4A and it's been exciting to watch a few of your videos and get familiar with it, so thanks for the great information! Also, I love your outfit and makeup!!

I worked on several versions using John Benke's TOD editor. Where the versions ended up I don't know but I hope folks found them entertaining...

I've recently rejoined the Chicago TI Users Group and wanted to thank you for your kind words about my TOD Editor. A short time after writing it, I moved away from the TI community, got a full time job, got married and had a few kids. I had no idea that the editor became so popular. Sure I received some royalties from Asgard but the checks were small and came over many months. They never reported to me the sales numbers so I just moved on with my life. It was many years later that I discovered that so many people enjoyed it and made so many excellent games with it, many far superior than my own. Thank you for covering this but I also wanted to let you know that I have restarted the once famous monthly Chicago TImes Newsletter as well as recreated a more up to date web page for the group. I hope you don't mind but I have featured more than a few of your excellent videos links in the newsletter as well as the web page. I'd love to be able to publish either an interview with you or a short article about your experiences with the TI and your amazing UA-cam page. If this may be of interest to you, please contact me at chicago.ti994a.usersgroup@gmail.com and btw the Chicago TI User Group web page is www.chicagotiug.org Thanks!

This game looks wonderful. I still have 2 complete, by 1980's standards, systems packed up in storage. Time and ambition permitting this might be enough reason to unpack one. If I get to that stage would it be okay to check with you as to the necessary hardware needed to run this?

Mrs. PixPedant. I also added a vid with TI99/4A modification. Someone made two of them to simulate an accordion. 🪗🎹

sadly my nan and grandad have died now but 1 day they saw me fight haya oh and yes i did kill him

i dont know which is the better theme for haya oh the master system or the game gear theme

Parsec was an awesome game. And the speech synth just made it better. I think that was the only game we had that made use of the speech synthesizer (though I think you could control it through BASIC, and that was fun to play with)