My first was a TI99/4. My dad worked for a company that was a distributor for TI components so we got one of the first ones for a whopping $1100!
Besides playing games and fiddling with the speech emulator I programmed a lot of songs from my collection of sheet music -- Chariots of Fire, Brick House, Stairway... I remember my main hurdle being long pieces that didn't repeat much and thus would not fit into memory! I seem to remember a time where I was trying to figure out how to load data from the cassette data storage(!) as a song was playing. I think it was La Villa Strangiato I was working on...:-)
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Yes, all of the previous is based on old or bogus. Here is the actual release from about 30 minutes ago: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_ Ames_Google.html
My first was a TI99/4. My dad worked for a company that was a distributor for TI components so we got one of the first ones for a whopping $1100!
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Besides playing games and fiddling with the speech emulator I programmed a lot of songs from my collection of sheet music -- Chariots of Fire, Brick House, Stairway... I remember my main hurdle being long pieces that didn't repeat much and thus would not fit into memory! I seem to remember a time where I was trying to figure out how to load data from the cassette data storage(!) as a song was playing. I think it was La Villa Strangiato I was working on...