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TI-99/4A. It
was a Christmas present from my parents in 1981 (or was
that 1982? ... off by one again). My dad wanted to prevent
me from installing games on his Apple ][+ (he used it
for accounting purposes). The TI-99/4A hooked up to a
conventional TV set and had a cartridge slot as well as
a cassette tape connection (i still have the original
portable cassette tape player that i used). I remember
playing a lot of games like Hunt the Wumpus and
Parsec,
but eventually i learned how to create and animate sprites
and wrote my first game - Money Bags. Simple. You control a
cursor (an arrow) and move around the screen. There are
two bags: one is a gold coin and the other is a bomb ... i
think you see where this is going ;)
Even though the TI-99/4A was my first computer, it just couldn't compare to that "monster" Apple ][+ that was in the other room. Anyone remember Temple Of Apshai? Bard's Tale? Wizardry? Escape From Rungistan? Zork! Lot's of oldies ... but as well as playing games, i did manage to learn some BASIC programming. I had no troubles with loops and conditional branching, but i couldn't grasp the concept of peeks and pokes (i had no understanding of RAM, address space, and memory allocation), so eventually i lost interest in programming (which i wouldn't gain back until 1996). I (ab)used that Apple until about 1988 and it still works ... i have no idea what happened to the TI-99/4A however. jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat) In reply to (jeffa) Re: My first computer was...
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