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The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A
It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at an architecture that’s completely new to me, and I haven’t done any since creating my new scheme for dedicated platform guides. I’…
Entering when it did, it ended up in a price war that ultimately locked TI into a strategy of selling the base unit at a loss, then making it up on margins on their software. I’ll be using Harmless Lion’s Classic99 emulator for this tour; it’s got licensed versions of TI’s console ROMs as well as much of the rest of their library, and it’s also got good support for disk drives and debugging. The sprites also are presented column major (so, read the screen it would like like “ac” over “bd” instead of “ab” over “cd” like we did in our original case) so we also need to juggle the characters around a bit alongside making space for the handles.
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