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> People should really get retro crazy about the TI-99/4A As someone who grew up with one, I'd advise against it. It's not that they're bad, it's just that eve
by justin66 6y ago
> People should really get retro crazy about the TI-99/4A
As someone who grew up with one, I'd advise against it. It's not that they're bad, it's just that everything else from the same era was a lot better.
There's some real perversity about the hardware, and that sounds fun, but I wonder if there's anything about it that would actually be fun to program today in C or assembly. It seems more like needless difficulty than adventure. And if you're feeling nostalgic about TI BASIC or Extended BASIC you're suffering from a head injury and should seek medical attention immediately.
On the other hand... it would be amusing to use one of the modern embedded SOCs that people are recommending here and set it up to talk to one of the TI's wacky peripherals, like the speech synthesizer. Some amount of bit banging would probably result in something interesting happening.