Texas instruments speech synthesizer emulator mac

#Texas instruments speech synthesizer emulator mac full#

I was quite disappointed with the fact that it was ascii, the character was a > or < sign, and the trees were asterisks. I was expecting something like one of the cartridge games to pop out. I remember typing in a program on the 99/4A (a game called downhill ski or something like that) from BYTE magazine, or some such magazine. Although I didn't get into programming until I got an Apple //e a few years later. This demo is definitely not representative of the applications and games available on the machine at the time. It is fun to finally get to see what could have been, and super impressive for someone who grew up programming the machine. I believe it required an extra expansion card to unlock assembler - but I really wanted to see what the machine was capable of unconstrained by the Basic Interpreter. I was only about 7 years when I started programming on the TI, and I always wanted to try to write assembler on it, but (happily) moved on to more powerful computers before I got around to it a few years later. Especially, considering that the TI has decent capabilities on paper. Possibly because they wanted you to buy their expansion cards, which I always thought was a dumb mistake from TIs side.

#Texas instruments speech synthesizer emulator mac full#

On the other hand the TIs basic and extended basic didn't allow you to access the full capabilities of the machine. 'Call Color', 'Call Char', 'Call hchar', etc.), and I always found Commodores peek/poke mess very primitive and a bit more inaccessible in comparison. In TI Basic, you accessed the more interesting parts of the machine 'Call' functions (e.g.

but TI Basic was so incredibly slow.ДЄt least Extended Basic allowed you to use sprites and overall felt a bit faster. I grew up and learned basic on a TI-99/4a.