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Tell me you had Extended Basic, the Editor / Assembler, the speech synthesizer, and the expansion box for the TI. :) I didn't have E / A or the expansion box,
by pmiller2 6y ago
Tell me you had Extended Basic, the Editor / Assembler, the speech synthesizer, and the expansion box for the TI. :) I didn't have E / A or the expansion box, but I did have Extended Basic and the speech synthesizer, and just those were a lot of fun. Using a cassette tape as a storage device was kind of clunky, but it worked; I would have much rather had a floppy drive or 2. OTOH, I don't miss the primitive editing mechanisms. Line numbers suck.
- stan_rogers 6y agoTwo cartridges were compulsory: Extended Basic and Tunnels of Doom. I also had the E/A and expansion box with floppies - which came in handy for loading subs on the fly in Extended Basic, as well as being a better setup than tape for ToD. It was a little awkward with the only "namespace" being line numbers, but it worked.
- pmiller2 6y agoHell yeah, I forgot about ToD for a minute there. I was obsessed with that game for a while in middle school. I tended to play with a friend of mine who also had a TI-99/4A, and we very quickly figured out the optimal party was 2 fighters, 1 wizard, and 1 rogue. I'm not sure how many times we finished that game. It's amazing how many people love ToD. There's even a Youtube video of a guy playing the theme music on a music box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euMH2fCERAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euMH2fCERAc I'm currently working on trying to get it to run in MAME. I have a TI-99/4A successfully booting to BASIC, but I haven't got ToD itself to boot yet.
- wsc981 6y agoI never played ToD, but recently I looked at some movies of this game on YouTube and it's really quite impressive how comprehensive this game is on the low-end hardware of the day [0] --- [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa7MYYmB4XQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa7MYYmB4XQ