This is just friggin' delightful. I remember feeling so superior to my friends because while they were just using PRINT and GOTO to fill their screens with four-letter words, I was using Terminal Emulator II to turn my TI into a surrogate pottymouth.
I found your show through Veronica Explains and I LOVE IT! You ladies are so fun and entertaining. Been watching so many of your vids and LOVE them! Keep up the great work! I was almost crying I was laughing so hard at the end...
I was sitting here waiting patiently for it to say 'would you like to play a game?'...... instead, all I got was the sound of a rage filled demonic entity.... thanks for that!!! :)
This comment is hilarious to me because I just got finished watching a UA-cam special about the making of War Games. Interesting fact, the TI-99/4A actually had a game called Global Thermonuclear War. I remember seeing it in a software magazine thinking it looked awesome.
As somebody else said… Parsec with the speech is a must. That game alone showed me that TI’s speech chips were far ahead of any of the others at the time. And I especially like how the speech chip temporarily broke Taylor before it got possessed.
If I had speech synth + parsec when I first picked up a TI99 from thrift store I would've been pretty amazed. I had nothing but TI Invaders and BASIC and it wound up binned for years. Happy to be rediscovering it now including with FinalGROM.
I loved this video...specifically because you guys (Amy and Taylor) couldn't figure out SPEECH with "Extended Basic"....I didn't even know that the Ti99 could even do speech with Ext-B. LoL!!! :-) And, ...I still think the "voice" of Ti99/4a's are a riot!!! 🙂
It’s impossible not to laugh along 😊 Back in the mists of time, I went to a demo of a prototype Commodore 'TED' machine that had speech… the guy showing it had done a word processor where the prompts were spoken… so, for example, if you were to save a document, and start to walk away to get a coffee, you’d here it say something like, 'file exists, overwrite Y/N' as you walked away, rather than come back to that 10mins later. If you didn’t do anything for a while, it’d say, 'if you are in need of assistance, press the help key.' I think the developer had wanted to make it snore in that situation, but that got frowned upon by 'the powers that be'. A computer that snores occasionally would appeal to me 😂
This was delightful, thank you for sharing your TI/99 experiments and progress with us! Just a few days after you posted this, PixelPedant did a video on TI Speech utilities and some of the modern tools that exist to help summon forth those dark spirits dwelling in the unknowable blackness of the 4a's GROM.
Some awesome alien and horror sound FX … you should record them for future episodes when you need an interesting sound FX!! Taylor’s laughing had me rolling!!! 😂
Awesome! Y'all got the joystick adapter. I have my nintendo controller I converted to atari plug and use it with my TI/994a and Commodore 64. The speech synth and 32k RAM expansion is a must have with this computer. Also, Lwaxana Troi's voice on the Star Trek game would have been epic. LOL Matlab with Linear Algebra. Brings back memories of my junior year at the University of Texas.
Loved Star Trek. Such a fun game back in the day. I wonder if the TI99 is the inspiration for Sega's add on's. Genesis, CD, 32X, Power Base Converter.. lol That's pretty darn cool yall got the extended ram and everything else to work. Awesome job!!👍👍👍
@@fractalMD I see what you mean now. I comment as I'm watching the video. Then, I had to pause it for a few hours because work. Then I got back to it and saw what you were talking about :D
Im amazed the talking actually sounds THAT clear on a TI99.... I was impressed with 'RealSound' running on Leader Board Golf for DOS on my old 80286... the speech on the TI99 sounds about 10 times clearer!
Seems like this would go good with your title card. C64 screen: “The Taylor and Amy show” TI voice synth: “Welcome to the Taylor and Amy show.” A pretty neat tool.
The TI99/4a was my first computer backnin '83 when i was 7, got one for Christmas that year. I still have it, and it still works! I bought it a few stu t doubles recently in case i need parts... the thing is, i never had any carts.... and no storage, i learned to touch type using that machine, and typing in games from books. For my 9th birthday i got an Apple IIe, lol I need to see if that star trek game is on my finalgrom.... if not, IT WILL BE....
I remember having a Currah Speech module for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It had a GI speech chip. It would speak out all the commands on the keyboard. For instance, if you pressed the “P” key it would say “PRINT”. Try typing a basic program when the computer is speaking out all the commands, really cracks you up. As my native language is Dutch, I had a lot of fun making it say Dutch cuss words. It would pronounce them with an English accent, which is quite funny.
I learned to code using Extended Basic on a TI-99/4A!!!! I even used a (very heavy, double height) 5.25” floppy drive, but I never saw the speech synthesizer.
Extended BASIC was a TI product requiring a GROM. If you get a cart - (readying the box toward the end of November - having my house reconstructed with new windows currently) called "The Final GROM) it will run any cart needing the GROM. It uses an SD card like the BackBit, but only runs ROM type carts.
I had the voice synthesizer for my TI-99/4A, but I mainly only used it when I played games enabled for it. I never programmed it to speak, but I did the Hearsay 1000, which was a model for the Commodore 64. I loved putting in lines of vowels and having the Commodore try to pronounce them. It will crack you up if you try it! It should work on the Texas Instruments voice synthesizer also! Just put in a long string of all types of vowels in no particular order and it will crack you up!
In 1984 my father bought a joystick adapter from WICO (who also manufactured joysticks) because we went through three TI joysticks and they were plain awful. Being able to play Atari joysticks on the TI-99/4A was a great improvement. BTW, the Sega Genesis controller is Atari compatible so that means you can use a Genesis controller with the adapter, of course.
The TI-99/4A was my first computer. But I recall it having 16KB of ram, not 256bytes. IIRC the Atari 2600 had like 256bytes of ram. I also had the speech synthesizer of course, and extended basic. So the TI-99/4A is where I taught myself how to program in BASIC. Later I got the expansion box with the 32k ram expansion card, floppy disk controller, and 5.25" floppy disk drive.
The TI-99/4A had 128 times 16bit "full speed" RAM and 16KByte video RAM. The access time from the CPU to the video RAM was much slower than to the tiny real RAM. Then "mini memory module" has 4 KByte "full speed" RAM plus 10 KByte ROM. This module was necessary for assembler programming.
It has 16K RAM for the Video Display Processor. TI BASIC stores program code in the VDP RAM. Then there's 256 bytes RAM directly accessible by the CPU. Without the 32K upgrade that tiny amount of RAM is mostly used for things like registers and stack pointers.
Great video! 32K is not needed to utilize the Speech Synthesizer. Back in the 80s, l used the Terminal Emulator ll cartridge and was good to go. Never got the memory expansion.
Extended BASIC doesn't require 32K expansion for most functions, although it will utilize the 32K expansion if present. With the expansion more memory is available to XB programs and it can load and call assembly routines. It doesn't need the expansion to speak.
Taylor's program crashed at 16:34 and then she BSOD'ed at 16:48. This was the birthday present I didn't know I needed. 🤣 If only there was a "Make it stop" t-shirt... 😂 Have you tried the Currah Speech Modulator cartridge for the C64? It was a load of laughs when I was a teenager in the 80s!
So first I heard Steven Hawking say, "The Taylor and Amy Show," and then apparently, the Dark Lord that lives inside all computers took over. I hope you escape his clutches so you can post another video. If not, it was great seeing you. And now I'm going to go hug my teddy bear. 😐
it had the mul and umul and the div and udiv before any other CPUs had them except for the 6809 which had the mul instruction and no other advanced instruction.
New to your channel. I grew up in Memphis but have been in Montana (via the USAF) since 1986. So, have you gals hear of the MiSTer FPGA project? It has cores for a ton of retro computers, gaming consoles and handhelds, as well as arcade machines. You should really check it out. If you have any questions, let me know. It isn't a commercial product but a community project. I've had one for 2+ years and it is constantly coming out with new stuff.
Go grind city! Indeed we have heard of these things. We right now are more riding close to the original hardware, but it doesn't mean we may not dive into it, at some point. :)
@@fractalMD - Not to be pushy, but just a little info about FPGAs if they are new-ish to you. An FPGA is basically a chip full of parts and pieces that can be dynamically organized to create CPUs, sound chips, video chips, RAM, a motherboard, etc. It is basically like a Transformer where one minute its a car and another minute it's an airplane... and it is doing it with hardware recreation, just at a microscopic level. The MiSTer FPGA Project is all about hardware preservation. So while I've seen a number of the full-size recreations (as well as original hardware) ya'll have featured in your videos... you can do the same thing in FPGA just by using an on-screen menu to switch between the hundreds of available cores. A "core" is a system implemented in the FPGA. Almost every piece of hardware ya'll have covered to date is included and way, way more... all in a fairly tiny piece of hardware that offers modern features like HDMI output, USB input, often with "cycle accurate" input/output latencies of the original hardware... with the sdcard disk adapters for all of the systems just built-in to the core. Sound complicated? Nowhere near as much as you might imagine. There are various curated software collections available for most of the cores MiSTer offers. If ya'll would be interested in borrowing a MiSTer from me for a few months, I'd be happy to mail my spare MiSTer to you. If this sounds like some creepy sales pitch, it isn't. Again, it's a community driven project, not a commercial product, and I'm just an enthusiast myself. When you get a minute, just take a look at all of the available cores on the MiSTer wiki in the long column on the lower right: github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki I have personally only used about a 10th of the available cores and haven't found time to get into many of the earlier retro computers ya'll have showcased thus far.
I don't know about TI99 BASIC syntax, but have you tried moving the I outside the double quotes like: "//"+I+"... or "//",I,"... ? I know Applesoft Basic doesn't know how to include variables inside double quotes. This video was so fun to watch!!!
Do you want a TI speech challenge? Try making it properly pronounce Taj Mahal. I did that many years ago and it took a lot of tries with creative spelling to get it to pronounce something close to how it's supposed to be. In contrast, getting it to correctly say the name of the capital city of Idaho, which is Boise, was easy. Tell it to say BOY C.
The "I" variable included in the FOR-NEXT loop is not recognized that way, it is just a fixed part of the string ... try using PRINT #1;"// "&STR$(I)&" 100" for a loop with different values.
I am not familiar with the TI expansion port, but I am guessing there was some power available on the pins for a small newer card to use. There are limits to the amount of amperage or milla amps usually for any given supply voltages on ports. So it may or may not work out just saying ok have some, but maybe ok.
Can you tell us what contact points you actually connected together inside the speech synthesizer? I know it is to bridge the power through the synthesizer so the 32k module works, but I would like to verify.
I want one of these fully-functional robots. I want a Japanese one, but I want it to sound like a 1970s cylon, when it nags me non-stop during my night flight to Venus. /watch?v=aJVqPWzunwM
This is the kind of carefree banter you would expect if you were fighting for survival in the merciless vacuum of space.
I mean, right??
This is just friggin' delightful. I remember feeling so superior to my friends because while they were just using PRINT and GOTO to fill their screens with four-letter words, I was using Terminal Emulator II to turn my TI into a surrogate pottymouth.
And then we go and summon Zuul.
@@fractalMD Nice cross-reference to an earlier vid of yours ("Ghostbusters" by David Crane)
@@floydjohnson7888 It's aaaaallllll interconnected.....
I am absolutely in love with this channel. Glad I found it! There's something so wholesome about two friends just talking about old tech together.
And we love doing it!
I found your show through Veronica Explains and I LOVE IT! You ladies are so fun and entertaining. Been watching so many of your vids and LOVE them! Keep up the great work!
I was almost crying I was laughing so hard at the end...
Welcome, friend!
We love Veronica!
My viewing of this episode was interrupted and I just got back to it to watch the last 7 minutes. So good. Thank you!
Hi Gil!!!
I've never seen Taylor crack up like this...priceless!
This is a PATENTED Taylor giggle attack.
I was laughing about 10% of that and was struggling to breathe... IDK how Amy held it together. lol
So glad I found your channel. Reminds me of friends from the 80s.
Hey Zach. Welcome aboard!
I was sitting here waiting patiently for it to say 'would you like to play a game?'...... instead, all I got was the sound of a rage filled demonic entity.... thanks for that!!! :)
"Greetings Professor Faulken, would you like to play a game?" was next up but we never made it due to the sudden demon infestation.
This comment is hilarious to me because I just got finished watching a UA-cam special about the making of War Games. Interesting fact, the TI-99/4A actually had a game called Global Thermonuclear War. I remember seeing it in a software magazine thinking it looked awesome.
Parsec is a speech synth must!
Must acquire!
Totally!!! Best TI99 game ever!!!@@fractalMD
To tell the truth: I subscribed for the grimaces!
Never got disappointed. ;-)
🤣🤣🤣
As somebody else said… Parsec with the speech is a must. That game alone showed me that TI’s speech chips were far ahead of any of the others at the time. And I especially like how the speech chip temporarily broke Taylor before it got possessed.
Her giggle box got knocked over for sure.
Alpiner is another one. "Look out" 🙂
If I had speech synth + parsec when I first picked up a TI99 from thrift store I would've been pretty amazed. I had nothing but TI Invaders and BASIC and it wound up binned for years. Happy to be rediscovering it now including with FinalGROM.
Parsec and Alpiner :D
I found your channel through the latest Action Retro episode. Looking forward to exploring your videos.
Oh cool, welcome!
I loved this video...specifically because you guys (Amy and Taylor) couldn't figure out SPEECH with "Extended Basic"....I didn't even know that the Ti99 could even do speech with Ext-B. LoL!!! :-) And, ...I still think the "voice" of Ti99/4a's are a riot!!! 🙂
Oh the humanity!
It’s impossible not to laugh along 😊
Back in the mists of time, I went to a demo of a prototype Commodore 'TED' machine that had speech… the guy showing it had done a word processor where the prompts were spoken… so, for example, if you were to save a document, and start to walk away to get a coffee, you’d here it say something like, 'file exists, overwrite Y/N' as you walked away, rather than come back to that 10mins later. If you didn’t do anything for a while, it’d say, 'if you are in need of assistance, press the help key.' I think the developer had wanted to make it snore in that situation, but that got frowned upon by 'the powers that be'.
A computer that snores occasionally would appeal to me 😂
Half expected the 'Like & Subscribe' at the end to be spoken by the TI too 😜
@@timothyp8947 We talked about it, but basically couldn't stop laughing long enough to continue being productive!
I'm all in for a snoring computer.
I wanna hear it say FART or FARTS, or some other rude expletive 🤪
But what might that summon????!!?
The best laughs are when your stomach and face hurt at the same time!
EVERYTHING hurt!
This was delightful, thank you for sharing your TI/99 experiments and progress with us!
Just a few days after you posted this, PixelPedant did a video on TI Speech utilities and some of the modern tools that exist to help summon forth those dark spirits dwelling in the unknowable blackness of the 4a's GROM.
Séances all around!!!!!
You two are so awesome! ❤❤❤
Thank you!
Some awesome alien and horror sound FX … you should record them for future episodes when you need an interesting sound FX!! Taylor’s laughing had me rolling!!! 😂
Halloween for next year is already locked in. Omg.
I wish I hadn't got rid of my ti99. It's so cool looking. Lovely video thank you. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome! Y'all got the joystick adapter. I have my nintendo controller I converted to atari plug and use it with my TI/994a and Commodore 64. The speech synth and 32k RAM expansion is a must have with this computer. Also, Lwaxana Troi's voice on the Star Trek game would have been epic. LOL Matlab with Linear Algebra. Brings back memories of my junior year at the University of Texas.
Nothing like some Eigen vectors for a good time.
Loved Star Trek. Such a fun game back in the day. I wonder if the TI99 is the inspiration for Sega's add on's. Genesis, CD, 32X, Power Base Converter.. lol That's pretty darn cool yall got the extended ram and everything else to work. Awesome job!!👍👍👍
We love it when a plan comes together.
The look on Amy's face when Taylor said "it's going to talk to us" make me lol
That's even before I knew what I was in for!
@@fractalMD I see what you mean now. I comment as I'm watching the video. Then, I had to pause it for a few hours because work. Then I got back to it and saw what you were talking about :D
@@bretlinden8248 Things take a turn!
Im amazed the talking actually sounds THAT clear on a TI99.... I was impressed with 'RealSound' running on Leader Board Golf for DOS on my old 80286... the speech on the TI99 sounds about 10 times clearer!
TI flexing that Speak and Spell knowledge.
That was an awesome version of the Star Trek arcade game.
Someone is having way too much fun and I love it!
Oh, and you need an exorcist
😃😃😃
I happened upon you guys purely by chance and loved every minute. Subscribed ✌️19:10: TI99 achieves sentience 😱
We are a unexpected channel to have documented Singularity, but here we are. I, for one, welcome our robot masters!
Seems like this would go good with your title card.
C64 screen: “The Taylor and Amy show”
TI voice synth: “Welcome to the Taylor and Amy show.”
A pretty neat tool.
Sooooo many possibilities
The TI99/4a was my first computer backnin '83 when i was 7, got one for Christmas that year. I still have it, and it still works!
I bought it a few stu t doubles recently in case i need parts... the thing is, i never had any carts.... and no storage, i learned to touch type using that machine, and typing in games from books.
For my 9th birthday i got an Apple IIe, lol
I need to see if that star trek game is on my finalgrom.... if not, IT WILL BE....
That is really cool. Bust out that star trek!
I remember having a Currah Speech module for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It had a GI speech chip. It would speak out all the commands on the keyboard. For instance, if you pressed the “P” key it would say “PRINT”. Try typing a basic program when the computer is speaking out all the commands, really cracks you up. As my native language is Dutch, I had a lot of fun making it say Dutch cuss words. It would pronounce them with an English accent, which is quite funny.
Oooh, I know a few curse words in Nederlands.
I used to have that computer when I was little about 38 years ago.
Cool!
I, for one, will miss these shows. Robot uprising...
Maybe they will let us carry on for their amusement? 😃
I learned to code using Extended Basic on a TI-99/4A!!!! I even used a (very heavy, double height) 5.25” floppy drive, but I never saw the speech synthesizer.
Nice!
Extended BASIC was a TI product requiring a GROM. If you get a cart - (readying the box toward the end of November - having my house reconstructed with new windows currently) called "The Final GROM) it will run any cart needing the GROM. It uses an SD card like the BackBit, but only runs ROM type carts.
This has triggered "it's the final countdown" to play in my head!
I played TONS of Star Trek. Once, I was so in the zone I broke 1,000,000. Possibly, 2,000,000. Everything moved so fast.
You sound a wee bit better at it than I am!
I had the voice synthesizer for my TI-99/4A, but I mainly only used it when I played games enabled for it. I never programmed it to speak, but I did the Hearsay 1000, which was a model for the Commodore 64. I loved putting in lines of vowels and having the Commodore try to pronounce them. It will crack you up if you try it!
It should work on the Texas Instruments voice synthesizer also! Just put in a long string of all types of vowels in no particular order and it will crack you up!
Oooh, we'll have to try it
“Greetings Professor Falken. Would you like to play a game?”
Exactly!
@@fractalMD make it say that and compare it to the computer voice from the movie!!!
@@davidkudrav7018 it's what I wanted to do next.... then the possession distracted us
@@fractalMD it can still be next!!
@@davidkudrav7018 global thermonuclear war, baby
Loved seeing Taylor corpse. I work with computers all day and every day, how come I don't have as much fun as you two do?
We are just "lucky" I guess. 🤣
You two are a hoot!
We try..... 😂
I think you opened a portal to the dark side. Excellent episode 👍
The TI99/4A is more powerful than we thought!!!!
In 1984 my father bought a joystick adapter from WICO (who also manufactured joysticks) because we went through three TI joysticks and they were plain awful. Being able to play Atari joysticks on the TI-99/4A was a great improvement. BTW, the Sega Genesis controller is Atari compatible so that means you can use a Genesis controller with the adapter, of course.
Good to know!
I had an Atari 7800 joystick when they first came out. Definitely an improvement.
I had a dream that I played strip Atari 2600 Warlords with Taylor and Amy. I'm sick I know.
1. Invade dreams
2. World domination
it was the first 16bit PC before 16bit machines ever came out you know before the IBM PC Junior.
Super cool
I'm sure glad I watched this episode in the daytime! I think I reacted the same way as Taylor did at 19:10.
We need to add a warning not to watch while drinking water or operating heavy machinery.
Lol, the Majel Barrett sound pak... WORKING....
WE NEED IT
The TI-99/4A was my first computer. But I recall it having 16KB of ram, not 256bytes. IIRC the Atari 2600 had like 256bytes of ram. I also had the speech synthesizer of course, and extended basic. So the TI-99/4A is where I taught myself how to program in BASIC. Later I got the expansion box with the 32k ram expansion card, floppy disk controller, and 5.25" floppy disk drive.
I mean, hats off to the TI-99/4A. Sounds like it served you well! 😊
The TI-99/4A had 128 times 16bit "full speed" RAM and 16KByte video RAM. The access time from the CPU to the video RAM was much slower than to the tiny real RAM. Then "mini memory module" has 4 KByte "full speed" RAM plus 10 KByte ROM. This module was necessary for assembler programming.
It has 16K RAM for the Video Display Processor. TI BASIC stores program code in the VDP RAM. Then there's 256 bytes RAM directly accessible by the CPU. Without the 32K upgrade that tiny amount of RAM is mostly used for things like registers and stack pointers.
Great video! 32K is not needed to utilize the Speech Synthesizer. Back in the 80s, l used the Terminal Emulator ll cartridge and was good to go. Never got the memory expansion.
Thx!
Awesome channel
Thanks! We are having so much fun with it.
Best. Show. Ever.
In the history of ALWAYS!
A late Halloween episode! Terrifying!
An accidental one!
Excellent...
Sup, Peter!
@@fractalMD You two are the only ones I know who could make Darth Vader sound Irish!
Taylor was laughing so hard I thought she may have peed her pants
I think it was touch and go for a second there.
Extended BASIC doesn't require 32K expansion for most functions, although it will utilize the 32K expansion if present. With the expansion more memory is available to XB programs and it can load and call assembly routines. It doesn't need the expansion to speak.
But it is required for possession.
That bit at the end reminds me of some of the text to sound AI stuff out there.
Terrifyingly so!
What the last looping part sounded like to me "We have found your father" 👀
"Luke I am your faather"
Since we spelled it wrong it made it that much crazier!
My boomer mom thinks Golum is infesting your Ti-99. Why oh why did I show her your show on the smart TV, she is now binge watching.
Love this!
Y'all are having too much fun.
Impossible!
You Two Are Sooooooo Funnnnnny :-))))))))
:))))))))
Taylor's program crashed at 16:34 and then she BSOD'ed at 16:48. This was the birthday present I didn't know I needed. 🤣
If only there was a "Make it stop" t-shirt... 😂
Have you tried the Currah Speech Modulator cartridge for the C64? It was a load of laughs when I was a teenager in the 80s!
Happy (belated) birthday!
So first I heard Steven Hawking say, "The Taylor and Amy Show," and then apparently, the Dark Lord that lives inside all computers took over. I hope you escape his clutches so you can post another video. If not, it was great seeing you. And now I'm going to go hug my teddy bear. 😐
That would explain A LOT
Ninja door kicks are the only true way to close a door!
You opened the Gate! We're all doomed.
DOOOOOOOM!
C for the TI-99 4A could have been brilliant.
If only!
Taylor & Amy vs The Evil Dead....
And me without my chainsaw arm...
@@fractalMD Don't worry, the TI99 can do it all!
it had the mul and umul and the div and udiv before any other CPUs had them except for the 6809 which had the mul instruction and no other advanced instruction.
Because MAGIC
I think yal accidently soldered a jumper to enable "possessed mode" on that synthesizer and summoned some demons or something!
That would explain A LOT.
Surprised no-one connected a TI99 to a C64 to give the C64 speech & the TI99 better graphics.
New to your channel. I grew up in Memphis but have been in Montana (via the USAF) since 1986. So, have you gals hear of the MiSTer FPGA project? It has cores for a ton of retro computers, gaming consoles and handhelds, as well as arcade machines. You should really check it out. If you have any questions, let me know. It isn't a commercial product but a community project. I've had one for 2+ years and it is constantly coming out with new stuff.
Go grind city! Indeed we have heard of these things. We right now are more riding close to the original hardware, but it doesn't mean we may not dive into it, at some point. :)
@@fractalMD - Not to be pushy, but just a little info about FPGAs if they are new-ish to you. An FPGA is basically a chip full of parts and pieces that can be dynamically organized to create CPUs, sound chips, video chips, RAM, a motherboard, etc. It is basically like a Transformer where one minute its a car and another minute it's an airplane... and it is doing it with hardware recreation, just at a microscopic level.
The MiSTer FPGA Project is all about hardware preservation. So while I've seen a number of the full-size recreations (as well as original hardware) ya'll have featured in your videos... you can do the same thing in FPGA just by using an on-screen menu to switch between the hundreds of available cores. A "core" is a system implemented in the FPGA. Almost every piece of hardware ya'll have covered to date is included and way, way more... all in a fairly tiny piece of hardware that offers modern features like HDMI output, USB input, often with "cycle accurate" input/output latencies of the original hardware... with the sdcard disk adapters for all of the systems just built-in to the core. Sound complicated? Nowhere near as much as you might imagine. There are various curated software collections available for most of the cores MiSTer offers.
If ya'll would be interested in borrowing a MiSTer from me for a few months, I'd be happy to mail my spare MiSTer to you. If this sounds like some creepy sales pitch, it isn't. Again, it's a community driven project, not a commercial product, and I'm just an enthusiast myself.
When you get a minute, just take a look at all of the available cores on the MiSTer wiki in the long column on the lower right:
github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
I have personally only used about a 10th of the available cores and haven't found time to get into many of the earlier retro computers ya'll have showcased thus far.
@20:00 Sounds like the zombie dwarves in Phantasm
Dear god, does it? Keep that away from me!
"Selling it way below cost..." Just like me!
You are priceless!
@@fractalMD Priceless, worthless... Tomato, tomahto. LOL
I don't know about TI99 BASIC syntax, but have you tried moving the I outside the double quotes like: "//"+I+"... or "//",I,"... ? I know Applesoft Basic doesn't know how to include variables inside double quotes. This video was so fun to watch!!!
We are afraid to mess around too much in case we get transported to the shadow realm or something.
@@fractalMD I just about died when you set it to //1 -- it definitely sounded like a droid! I think Taylor should make it her ringtone.
I was thinking the same Corey, at the moment it’s just using I all the time which appears to be the option to demonise the TI99 🤣
@@elyuw Such a "happy" accident. 😫
BLAST THOSE K'T'INGAS!!! Wow that sounds weird without context!
Also, what's the BASIC code that led to the laughter? I need to know!
Oh man, I think just typos for days. As usual!
Do you want a TI speech challenge? Try making it properly pronounce Taj Mahal. I did that many years ago and it took a lot of tries with creative spelling to get it to pronounce something close to how it's supposed to be. In contrast, getting it to correctly say the name of the capital city of Idaho, which is Boise, was easy. Tell it to say BOY C.
I mean, stuff you don't think about until you are trying to explain to a robot how to say something.
The "I" variable included in the FOR-NEXT loop is not recognized that way, it is just a fixed part of the string ... try using PRINT #1;"// "&STR$(I)&" 100" for a loop with different values.
Yeah. The way we did it is only recognized by demons, apparently.
Add a delay, tell it to print I, and then you can see which value sounds like what you're looking for
I am not familiar with the TI expansion port, but I am guessing there was some power available on the pins for a small newer card to use. There are limits to the amount of amperage or milla amps usually for any given supply voltages on ports. So it may or may not work out just saying ok have some, but maybe ok.
RedRum! RedRum!
Oh the humanity
If only they had used the TMS99110A CPU they could have had IEEE754 floating point capability not just integer.
Am I correct when I say Taylor is wearing a Star Wars shirt while playing a Star Trek game?
She even called herself out on that! But we are huge hands of both, so it's aaaaaalllll good.
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Super!
Please do more TI 99 4A stuff!
Gotta keep the 99ers happy!
@@fractalMD We are not normal nerds.
@@pauldemelto6650Perish the thought!
Hey you can Play with that on Sundays stream I think it needs CPR
More like a exorcism!
@@fractalMD It was crazy Funny
I don't mean to be weird, but I get the impression you'd be great to meet in person.
That's not weird, that's just accurate!
Make sure you surround the TI with a ring of salt next time you try that. 😂
You are not even kidding.
Hilarious! 😂😂😂😂😂
😃😃😃
I think it is safe to say that this show has now demonstrated to everyone how low can you get :-P
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Just think if they had a VGA graphics adapter in that machine how good would that be.
Nuts
The TI99/4A is way better than the Commodore VIC-20, however not as awesome as the Commodore 64.
I played Star Trek on my C64 a lot back in the day. Fun game. Having the speech is really cool!
Main thing is to keep this particular TI99/4A away from Ouija boards.
You nerdy girls deserve more viewers!
I mean, we don't disagree! 😃
that should be apart of your intro!
I'm afraid everyone would flee in terror!
@@fractalMD I was referring to the name of the channel.
Great episode! But - wearing a Star Wars t-shirt to play a Star Trek game, is that even legal?
Lol
Taylor malfunctioned at 17:15
It's all good, I rebooted her.
I have both items for my TI/99 . I wonder if the same speech chip was used in my Vtech Talking Wiz Kid?
And if it is also possessed?
@amy Only when I turn it on lol. My last TI caught on fire.
@@Prime-1111X Dear lord!
@amy It was probably me kept it plugged in without a surge protector. It was the early 90's, I didn't know any better.
@@Prime-1111X Would be an invigorating way to start the day!
cute. Where can I find the memory upgrade mod ?
I'll see if I can get the info out of Taylor
Can you tell us what contact points you actually connected together inside the speech synthesizer? I know it is to bridge the power through the synthesizer so the 32k module works, but I would like to verify.
You jumper pin 1 across
So... you want a Speak-and-Spell??? Did the PEB you got not have the card 32K?
Looool. For sentimental reasons!
did you know if you just type "15" ans then use FTN + up arrow, line 15 will come up and you will be able to edit it?
Black magic!
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Welcome! 😃
I want one of these fully-functional robots. I want a Japanese one, but I want it to sound like a 1970s cylon, when it nags me non-stop during my night flight to Venus. /watch?v=aJVqPWzunwM
So say we all
A fully upgraded ti99 is how long? 3 meters?
Like 3 city blocks.
you should have made it say redum! LMAO
Already too scared!
Will the speech board plug in to the console upsidedown? Because it really looks like someone could put it together wrong.. just saying
I'm afraid that might upset it even more!