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TI-99/4A BASIC Performance, Games and Comparison to Other 8 Bit Systems

Noel's Retro Lab 71,705 4 years ago
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Support Noel's Retro Lab on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NoelsRetroLab Today we're changing gears. As a reward for finally getting this machine up and running and with gorgeous video out, today we're going to chill out with the TI-99/4A while learning about it. We're going to write a BASIC program; will it be as slow as people say? Then we'll explore some of the games catalog that the TI-99 has to offer, both classic and new, homebrew games. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Keyboard 01:19 BASIC overview 03:23 Where do BASIC programs go? 05:18 BASIC benchmarks 11:51 Why so slow? 13:47 Extended BASIC 15:29 Cartridges 16:56 Classic games 22:10 Music 23:43 Homebrew games 24:42 Conclusion Guest appearances and help by: Neil (RMC) - https://www.youtube.com/RetroManCave Adrian (Digital Basement) - https://www.youtube.com/AdriansDigitalBasement Erik Piehl - https://hackaday.io/projects/hacker/160422 Links: FinalGROM99 https://endlos99.github.io/finalgrom99/ Buy FinalGROM99 https://hobbyretro.com/texas-instruments/finalgrom99-para-texas-instruments-ti-99-4a TI-99 homebrew games http://tigameshelf.net/asm.htm More awesome music by McKlain: https://www.mcklain.com You can also support Noel's Retro Lab on YouTube by joining this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-SP1bYi3ueKlVU7I75wFw/join Connect with Noel's Retro Lab: Discord ➤ https://discord.gg/ETcCh6J Facebook ➤ https://www.facebook.com/NoelsRetroLab Twitter ➤ https://twitter.com/NoelsRetroLab Instagram ➤ https://www.instagram.com/NoelsRetroLab

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