Texas Instruments TI-99

[dsheinem]

I recently discovered there was an emulator and lots of roms available for the first real gaming system I ever had as a kid (before I got my Atari). I used to play Parsec, Hopper, MunchMan, Car Wars, and Connect Four for hours. I also used to do some BASIC programming with it. I fondly remember typing for hours - often copying BASIC code from the back of a magazine (like the 3-2-1 Contact Magazine) and ending up with a few dots moving around the screen and beeping. I thought it was awesome. Anyway, here's some good stuff I found:

The Classic99 Emulator with 10 or so built in games:
http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/sho ... =Classic99

Lots of additional ROMS:
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/public/psp/psp ... 9-roms.rar

More info:
http://www.99er.net/ti.shtml

Any other former (or current?!) TI-99 users?

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I recently discovered there was an emulator and lots of roms available for the first real gaming system I ever had as a kid (before I got my Atari). I used to play Parsec, Hopper, MunchMan, Car Wars, and Connect Four for hours. I also used to do some BASIC programming with it. I fondly remember typing for hours - often copying BASIC code from the back of a magazine (like the 3-2-1 Contact Magazine) and ending up with a few dots moving around the screen and beeping. I thought it was awesome. Anyway, here's some good stuff I found:

The Classic99 Emulator with 10 or so built in games:
http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/sho ... =Classic99

Lots of additional ROMS:
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/public/psp/psp ... 9-roms.rar

More info:
http://www.99er.net/ti.shtml

Any other former (or current?!) TI-99 users?

I had a broken one in my closet for a while.

[Dakinggamer87]

I'm a former TI-98 and TI-99 user.. good times....

Thanks for the links for ROMs

[the7k]

Latest I had was TI-89 (I believe). I remember playing Street Fighter, Dope Wars and Dragon Quest in high school.

Edit: Oh wait, TI-99 is a completely different beast from the TI-89. Oh well.

[Ivo]

Latest I had was TI-89 (I believe). I remember playing Street Fighter, Dope Wars and Dragon Quest in high school.

Edit: Oh wait, TI-99 is a completely different beast from the TI-89. Oh well.

There is an emulator for one of the TI calculators for DS Although this is not what the thread is about it seems.

Ivo.

[J T]

Back in highschool I used to program on the TI-85 calculator. I made a black jack game that had graphics and everything. I made a sexy card dealer woman. I even made a cheat code where you could start with one million dollars and there would be a graphic of a smiley face with dollar signs for eyes. It spread around the highschool reasonably quickly because I had people offer to give me a copy of the game, not knowing that I was the one that made it.

I also made some nice mathematical function programs like one that would if you gave it any 3 pieces of a triangle (side lengths or angles) it could calculate all of the other side lengths and angles for you autimatically, along with the area.

I haven't done any programming in years though, unless you count the syntax code in statistics programs like SPSS.

[dsheinem]

This thread is being hijacked by calculator aficionados!

Here's what I am referring to:

[shallowgamer]

I'm with you dsheinem. Munch man and Parsec ruled. I wasn't lucky enough to have a disk drive, so I saved my programs with a good ol tape recorder. And we had that beautiful modem, where you actually took your phone and shoved it into the coupler. You can't imagine how I crapped my pants when I upgraded to a commodore 64.

I feel like going into a "you kids don't appreciate what you've got!" speech right about now.

[General Chaos]

Ugh--brings back bittersweet memories. Back in what I believe was the 7h or 8th grade I remade Quest for Glory on a TI-89, complete with painstakingly created graphics interface and all, only to have the calculator stolen.

I think that was my last attempt at game development.

[shallowgamer]

And now we're back to the damn calculators... dammit, doesn't anyone want to talk about listening to your computer read code through your TV speaker? Good times, I swear!!