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The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A

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buildsjets ◴[] No.43109525[source]
I still have my TI-99/4A! I received it Christmas morning of 1983, although a Timex/Sinclair had been on my wish list. Sears had them marked down to $50 during the 8-bit wars. Mom had been up all night hand-typing in a BASIC demo so it would be running in the morning. Many Wumpuses were hunted that day.

Today, it has a F17A video processor that enables VGA output: https://dnotq.io/f18a/intro.html

And a FinalGROM99 cartridge, so I can have an SD card with all the program cartridges loaded. https://endlos99.github.io/finalgrom99/

There's still a community of fairly active development for retrogames, and some of them are quite good given capabilities of the hardware. My niece particularly enjoys a marble game called Skyway, try it on the online emulator at https://ti99ers.com

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1. seemaze ◴[] No.43117537[source]
>Many Wumpuses were hunted that day

Oh man! I remember playing 'Hunt the Wumpus'[0] with my cousins on my grandfathers TI-99 in the mid 80's. Probably the first computer I ever touched!

In the spirit of HN pedantry, should the plural be Wumpi? I will concede that wumpuses is way more fun to say..

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus