{"id":127,"date":"2016-12-06T04:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T09:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintage.excited-geek.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2016-12-06T06:08:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T10:38:37","slug":"ti-994a-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vintage.excited-geek.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/ti-994a-and-games\/","title":{"rendered":"TI 99\/4A and Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I now have a fairly complete working TI 99\/4A, I wanted to play with it.\u00a0 The strangest thing\u00a0I found,\u00a0was I didn&#8217;t have any memories of using this machine back in the 80&#8217;s.\u00a0 I have four cartridges for it, which are Home Financial Decisions, Music Maker, Othello and Adventure.<\/p>\n<p>I have no musical ability and Financial Decisions is not a game, which leaves the last two.<\/p>\n<p>I fired up Othello and played that for a couple of hours while watching TV.\u00a0 Playing on the easiest settings I managed to win both games, but it was no a walk away.\u00a0 My Othello skills were quite rusty.<\/p>\n<p>I few nights after I got my program recorders worked out, I started up the TI and put in the adventure cartridge.\u00a0 After choosing 2 for Adventure I get a startup screen of:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_138\" style=\"width: 662px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintage.excited-geek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Scott-Adams-Splash-Screen-02-DEC-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138\" class=\"wp-image-138 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintage.excited-geek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Scott-Adams-Splash-Screen-02-DEC-16-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Adam's Adventure Splash Screen\" width=\"652\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vintage.excited-geek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Scott-Adams-Splash-Screen-02-DEC-16-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vintage.excited-geek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Scott-Adams-Splash-Screen-02-DEC-16-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vintage.excited-geek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Scott-Adams-Splash-Screen-02-DEC-16-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vintage.excited-geek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Scott-Adams-Splash-Screen-02-DEC-16.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Adam&#8217;s Adventure Splash Screen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once that was running, the game wanted me to load the data off the cassette tape, which I set up.\u00a0 It tells you step by step to rewind the tape, stop and press play.<\/p>\n<p>How did I not remember that when you load the data off the tape it sounds like a dialup connection?\u00a0 It is also not very fast, taking a little over 2 minutes and 33 seconds.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t seem bad until you listen to that noise for over 2 1\/2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The resolution of the text on the TI is not nearly as fine as most modern users are familiar with.\u00a0 &#8220;Forty characters per line\u00a0using 24 lines&#8221; (40 characters in quotes)\u00a0is not much to work with.\u00a0 This can make the game a little less descriptive than more modern games of this type.<\/p>\n<p>I made a video of loading this adventure to show what it was like.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Loading Scott Adams Adventure 2016 12 06\" width=\"652\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_nv4mgprLM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I now have a fairly complete working TI 99\/4A, I wanted to play with it.\u00a0 The strangest thing\u00a0I found,\u00a0was I didn&#8217;t have any memories of using this machine back in the 80&#8217;s.\u00a0 I have four cartridges for it, which are Home Financial Decisions, Music Maker, Othello and Adventure. 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