The most annoying problem with the TI99/4a (apart from loading from tape) was that it hated running out of memory - and when it did would just crash.
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Wrote a flight simulator (dials only) and something that I really loved - an almost perfect copy of Frogger including music! I eventually got a TI99/4a a few years later (as it was selling for $99(AUD). I remember my first program was a copy of a game called something like 'Wild Gunmen' where one or two players tried to get into a situation to shoot each other. Graeme wasn't what I would call a great teacher - but he gave me the opportunity. I then spent the rest of the year - (two afternoons a week) learning programming - and have been doing it ever since. after the lesson, I went up to him (Graeme) and asked if he would tutor me after school. He brought in a TI99 and we spent the afternoon learning about programming, graphics and 'sprites'(yes he had the expansion) In my last year of primary school a teacher brought in a mate he had to give the class a lesson on computers for an hour or two. Another area that I would improve upon would be sound generation, since the sounds of these machines aren't too easy on the ears. But I haven't really started on that yet (and not yet sure I will, since there's other stuff I work on as well). And after finishing the interpreter, my goal would be to modernise the language for my purposes. If I'm not mistaken the screen resolution seems lower than what the TI had, causing the graphics to become quite ugly (imo).Īctually I've been contemplating on creating my own TI-BASIC interpreter as well. Yes, I find the PICO-8 charming, perhaps that's kinda what I'm looking for. The resolution of the TI-99/4A made this stuff more manageable as well I guess. For games I guess it's kinda nicer to work with PNGs these days then to figure out what HEX codes to use to draw a sprite, but with tooling that could be eased a bit. The language was quite limited which made it easy to learn. It was pretty easy to get some nice results quickly.
The simplicity of the TI-99/4A stuff was kinda nice.
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Recently I was discussing with my brother that I got kinda annoyed that software got so complex these days. But somewhat improved for the modern age. I kinda like to see the same kind of environment I guess.