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This was my first computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A You had to use Hex to make sprites. It didn't have p
by sharemywin 5y ago
This was my first computer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A
You had to use Hex to make sprites. It didn't have peek or poke so I was so jealous of the Vic-20 and Commodore 64. I recorded my programs on a tape player.
This is the computer I rented time at the library on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe
They had a TSR-80 Model III at school I got to play:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(series)
- PaulHoule 5y agoThe TI-99/4A had an advanced graphics system and an advanced 16 bit CPU but it had only 256 bytes of RAM directly tied to the CPU, to access the rest of the RAM (directly coupled to the video system) you had to do it through an I/O port. Something odd about it had a tile system like the NES. It had no framebuffer modes like its competitors but there were applications (like a Logo implementation) that faked a framebuffer by using tiles appropriately. My first computer was the Color Computer, first with 4K of RAM, then upgraded to 64K of RAM and running the multitasking OS-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9