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   Rob Prouse (rprouse@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 14:21:48 JST Rob Prouse

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️
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   @RenewedRebecca @thomasfuchs I loved my TI-99 4A, but I was young and couldn't afford the extended Basic cartridge so never had access to PEEK/POKE and memory so I was very limited. It was also such a closed system compared to the C64. I think it is that walled garden mentality that led to its failure.

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 14:21:44 JST Mike McCue

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     @rprouse @RenewedRebecca @thomasfuchs I loved the ti-99 4A too! I wrote a couple of games when I was in high school which made it into 99 er mag and then wrote Night Mission which was distributed as open source by Millers Graphics along with a book that Craig Miller wrote about how to write video games. The key was sprites as well as the 3 voice sound generator. Such an awesome computer.

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 14:23:00 JST Mike McCue

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     @rprouse @RenewedRebecca @thomasfuchs BTW have you seen the TI emulator written in javascript? It's amazing! Check it out at https://js99er.net/