TI99/4A Speech Synthesizer + Power Mod
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Жыл бұрынWe play with the TI99/4A Speech Synthesizer and perform a mod allowing +5V power to pass through to a 32K RAM expansion.
#retrocomputers #retrogaming #ti994a
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@patkelley8293 Жыл бұрын
This is the kind of carefree banter you would expect if you were fighting for survival in the merciless vacuum of space.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
I mean, right??
@ColinGagnon Жыл бұрын
This is just friggin' delightful. I remember feeling so superior to my friends because while they were just using PRINT and GOTO to fill their screens with four-letter words, I was using Terminal Emulator II to turn my TI into a surrogate pottymouth.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
And then we go and summon Zuul.
@floydjohnson7888 Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD Nice cross-reference to an earlier vid of yours ("Ghostbusters" by David Crane)
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
@@floydjohnson7888 It's aaaaallllll interconnected.....
@djnak7856 Жыл бұрын
I've never seen Taylor crack up like this...priceless!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
This is a PATENTED Taylor giggle attack.
@NeverlandSystemZor 10 ай бұрын
I was laughing about 10% of that and was struggling to breathe... IDK how Amy held it together. lol
@CurtisBoyle Жыл бұрын
As somebody else said… Parsec with the speech is a must. That game alone showed me that TI’s speech chips were far ahead of any of the others at the time. And I especially like how the speech chip temporarily broke Taylor before it got possessed.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Her giggle box got knocked over for sure.
@geekwithsocialskills Жыл бұрын
Alpiner is another one. "Look out" 🙂
@MattPilz Жыл бұрын
If I had speech synth + parsec when I first picked up a TI99 from thrift store I would've been pretty amazed. I had nothing but TI Invaders and BASIC and it wound up binned for years. Happy to be rediscovering it now including with FinalGROM.
@NightWolfx03 Жыл бұрын
Parsec and Alpiner :D
@RSCuber 7 ай бұрын
I am absolutely in love with this channel. Glad I found it! There's something so wholesome about two friends just talking about old tech together.
@fractalMD 5 ай бұрын
And we love doing it!
@commodorechronicles Жыл бұрын
Parsec is a speech synth must!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Must acquire!
@jankoji8 4 ай бұрын
Totally!!! Best TI99 game ever!!!@@fractalMD
@NeverlandSystemZor 10 ай бұрын
I found your show through Veronica Explains and I LOVE IT! You ladies are so fun and entertaining. Been watching so many of your vids and LOVE them! Keep up the great work! I was almost crying I was laughing so hard at the end...
@TaylorAmyShow 10 ай бұрын
Welcome, friend!
@fractalMD 9 ай бұрын
We love Veronica!
@hotfightinghistory9224 Жыл бұрын
I was sitting here waiting patiently for it to say 'would you like to play a game?'...... instead, all I got was the sound of a rage filled demonic entity.... thanks for that!!! :)
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
"Greetings Professor Faulken, would you like to play a game?" was next up but we never made it due to the sudden demon infestation.
@TortureBot 11 ай бұрын
This comment is hilarious to me because I just got finished watching a KZfaq special about the making of War Games. Interesting fact, the TI-99/4A actually had a game called Global Thermonuclear War. I remember seeing it in a software magazine thinking it looked awesome.
@oldguy9051 Жыл бұрын
To tell the truth: I subscribed for the grimaces! Never got disappointed. ;-)
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@DevilsHandyman Жыл бұрын
The best laughs are when your stomach and face hurt at the same time!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
EVERYTHING hurt!
@GilMarr Жыл бұрын
My viewing of this episode was interrupted and I just got back to it to watch the last 7 minutes. So good. Thank you!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Hi Gil!!!
@CodeProfessor Жыл бұрын
I found your channel through the latest Action Retro episode. Looking forward to exploring your videos.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Oh cool, welcome!
@anjanettepetty-kountz3785 Жыл бұрын
Some awesome alien and horror sound FX … you should record them for future episodes when you need an interesting sound FX!! Taylor’s laughing had me rolling!!! 😂
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Halloween for next year is already locked in. Omg.
@8-bitSnow Жыл бұрын
Seems like this would go good with your title card. C64 screen: “The Taylor and Amy show” TI voice synth: “Welcome to the Taylor and Amy show.” A pretty neat tool.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Sooooo many possibilities
@jankoji8 4 ай бұрын
I loved this video...specifically because you guys (Amy and Taylor) couldn't figure out SPEECH with "Extended Basic"....I didn't even know that the Ti99 could even do speech with Ext-B. LoL!!! :-) And, ...I still think the "voice" of Ti99/4a's are a riot!!! 🙂
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Oh the humanity!
@xXxCobraCommanderxXx Жыл бұрын
So glad I found your channel. Reminds me of friends from the 80s.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Hey Zach. Welcome aboard!
@timothyp8947 Жыл бұрын
It’s impossible not to laugh along 😊 Back in the mists of time, I went to a demo of a prototype Commodore 'TED' machine that had speech… the guy showing it had done a word processor where the prompts were spoken… so, for example, if you were to save a document, and start to walk away to get a coffee, you’d here it say something like, 'file exists, overwrite Y/N' as you walked away, rather than come back to that 10mins later. If you didn’t do anything for a while, it’d say, 'if you are in need of assistance, press the help key.' I think the developer had wanted to make it snore in that situation, but that got frowned upon by 'the powers that be'. A computer that snores occasionally would appeal to me 😂
@timothyp8947 Жыл бұрын
Half expected the 'Like & Subscribe' at the end to be spoken by the TI too 😜
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
@@timothyp8947 We talked about it, but basically couldn't stop laughing long enough to continue being productive!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
I'm all in for a snoring computer.
@redhawk668 9 ай бұрын
I remember having a Currah Speech module for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It had a GI speech chip. It would speak out all the commands on the keyboard. For instance, if you pressed the “P” key it would say “PRINT”. Try typing a basic program when the computer is speaking out all the commands, really cracks you up. As my native language is Dutch, I had a lot of fun making it say Dutch cuss words. It would pronounce them with an English accent, which is quite funny.
@fractalMD 8 ай бұрын
Oooh, I know a few curse words in Nederlands.
@hotfightinghistory9224 Жыл бұрын
Im amazed the talking actually sounds THAT clear on a TI99.... I was impressed with 'RealSound' running on Leader Board Golf for DOS on my old 80286... the speech on the TI99 sounds about 10 times clearer!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
TI flexing that Speak and Spell knowledge.
@linux42069 5 ай бұрын
You two are so awesome! ❤❤❤
@fractalMD 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@inerlogic 10 ай бұрын
The TI99/4a was my first computer backnin '83 when i was 7, got one for Christmas that year. I still have it, and it still works! I bought it a few stu t doubles recently in case i need parts... the thing is, i never had any carts.... and no storage, i learned to touch type using that machine, and typing in games from books. For my 9th birthday i got an Apple IIe, lol I need to see if that star trek game is on my finalgrom.... if not, IT WILL BE....
@fractalMD 9 ай бұрын
That is really cool. Bust out that star trek!
@bretlinden8248 Жыл бұрын
The look on Amy's face when Taylor said "it's going to talk to us" make me lol
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
That's even before I knew what I was in for!
@bretlinden8248 Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD I see what you mean now. I comment as I'm watching the video. Then, I had to pause it for a few hours because work. Then I got back to it and saw what you were talking about :D
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
@@bretlinden8248 Things take a turn!
@Kehvarl Жыл бұрын
This was delightful, thank you for sharing your TI/99 experiments and progress with us! Just a few days after you posted this, PixelPedant did a video on TI Speech utilities and some of the modern tools that exist to help summon forth those dark spirits dwelling in the unknowable blackness of the 4a's GROM.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Séances all around!!!!!
@davidbunt Жыл бұрын
I, for one, will miss these shows. Robot uprising...
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Maybe they will let us carry on for their amusement? 😃
@stphinkle 7 ай бұрын
I used to have that computer when I was little about 38 years ago.
@fractalMD 5 ай бұрын
Cool!
@fourthdrawerdown6297 Жыл бұрын
I happened upon you guys purely by chance and loved every minute. Subscribed ✌️19:10: TI99 achieves sentience 😱
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
We are a unexpected channel to have documented Singularity, but here we are. I, for one, welcome our robot masters!
@davidkudrav7018 Жыл бұрын
“Greetings Professor Falken. Would you like to play a game?”
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@davidkudrav7018 Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD make it say that and compare it to the computer voice from the movie!!!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
@@davidkudrav7018 it's what I wanted to do next.... then the possession distracted us
@davidkudrav7018 Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD it can still be next!!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
@@davidkudrav7018 global thermonuclear war, baby
@RetrogamerGenX Жыл бұрын
Loved Star Trek. Such a fun game back in the day. I wonder if the TI99 is the inspiration for Sega's add on's. Genesis, CD, 32X, Power Base Converter.. lol That's pretty darn cool yall got the extended ram and everything else to work. Awesome job!!👍👍👍
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
We love it when a plan comes together.
@TortureBot 11 ай бұрын
I had the voice synthesizer for my TI-99/4A, but I mainly only used it when I played games enabled for it. I never programmed it to speak, but I did the Hearsay 1000, which was a model for the Commodore 64. I loved putting in lines of vowels and having the Commodore try to pronounce them. It will crack you up if you try it! It should work on the Texas Instruments voice synthesizer also! Just put in a long string of all types of vowels in no particular order and it will crack you up!
@fractalMD 11 ай бұрын
Oooh, we'll have to try it
@macrohard007 Жыл бұрын
Awesome! Y'all got the joystick adapter. I have my nintendo controller I converted to atari plug and use it with my TI/994a and Commodore 64. The speech synth and 32k RAM expansion is a must have with this computer. Also, Lwaxana Troi's voice on the Star Trek game would have been epic. LOL Matlab with Linear Algebra. Brings back memories of my junior year at the University of Texas.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Nothing like some Eigen vectors for a good time.
@Fredthefat Жыл бұрын
Loved seeing Taylor corpse. I work with computers all day and every day, how come I don't have as much fun as you two do?
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
We are just "lucky" I guess. 🤣
@Phantom8Bit Жыл бұрын
That was an awesome version of the Star Trek arcade game. Someone is having way too much fun and I love it!
@Phantom8Bit Жыл бұрын
Oh, and you need an exorcist
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
😃😃😃
@nickblackburn1903 Жыл бұрын
I wish I hadn't got rid of my ti99. It's so cool looking. Lovely video thank you. 😊
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@MatiasBaldanza Жыл бұрын
I learned to code using Extended Basic on a TI-99/4A!!!! I even used a (very heavy, double height) 5.25” floppy drive, but I never saw the speech synthesizer.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Nice!
@A2Central Жыл бұрын
Awesome channel
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Thanks! We are having so much fun with it.
@pitfalljerry 5 ай бұрын
You two are a hoot!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
We try..... 😂
@tron3entertainment Жыл бұрын
I played TONS of Star Trek. Once, I was so in the zone I broke 1,000,000. Possibly, 2,000,000. Everything moved so fast.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
You sound a wee bit better at it than I am!
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 6 ай бұрын
it was the first 16bit PC before 16bit machines ever came out you know before the IBM PC Junior.
@fractalMD 5 ай бұрын
Super cool
@jeffreyphipps1507 Жыл бұрын
Extended BASIC was a TI product requiring a GROM. If you get a cart - (readying the box toward the end of November - having my house reconstructed with new windows currently) called "The Final GROM) it will run any cart needing the GROM. It uses an SD card like the BackBit, but only runs ROM type carts.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
This has triggered "it's the final countdown" to play in my head!
@bobtherieau6086 Жыл бұрын
Best. Show. Ever.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
In the history of ALWAYS!
@8bitsinthebasement Жыл бұрын
Excellent...
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Sup, Peter!
@8bitsinthebasement Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD You two are the only ones I know who could make Darth Vader sound Irish!
@escgoogle3865 5 ай бұрын
My boomer mom thinks Golum is infesting your Ti-99. Why oh why did I show her your show on the smart TV, she is now binge watching.
@fractalMD 5 ай бұрын
Love this!
@wsmiii598 9 ай бұрын
Extended BASIC doesn't require 32K expansion for most functions, although it will utilize the 32K expansion if present. With the expansion more memory is available to XB programs and it can load and call assembly routines. It doesn't need the expansion to speak.
@fractalMD 9 ай бұрын
But it is required for possession.
@makerofthingsunique Жыл бұрын
I think you opened a portal to the dark side. Excellent episode 👍
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
The TI99/4A is more powerful than we thought!!!!
@TheREALJosephTurner Жыл бұрын
Taylor's program crashed at 16:34 and then she BSOD'ed at 16:48. This was the birthday present I didn't know I needed. 🤣 If only there was a "Make it stop" t-shirt... 😂 Have you tried the Currah Speech Modulator cartridge for the C64? It was a load of laughs when I was a teenager in the 80s!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Happy (belated) birthday!
@Miler97487 Жыл бұрын
In 1984 my father bought a joystick adapter from WICO (who also manufactured joysticks) because we went through three TI joysticks and they were plain awful. Being able to play Atari joysticks on the TI-99/4A was a great improvement. BTW, the Sega Genesis controller is Atari compatible so that means you can use a Genesis controller with the adapter, of course.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Good to know!
@AngryCalvin 3 ай бұрын
I had an Atari 7800 joystick when they first came out. Definitely an improvement.
@RetroWithMarco Жыл бұрын
I'm sure glad I watched this episode in the daytime! I think I reacted the same way as Taylor did at 19:10.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
We need to add a warning not to watch while drinking water or operating heavy machinery.
@SirReptitious Жыл бұрын
The TI-99/4A was my first computer. But I recall it having 16KB of ram, not 256bytes. IIRC the Atari 2600 had like 256bytes of ram. I also had the speech synthesizer of course, and extended basic. So the TI-99/4A is where I taught myself how to program in BASIC. Later I got the expansion box with the 32k ram expansion card, floppy disk controller, and 5.25" floppy disk drive.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
I mean, hats off to the TI-99/4A. Sounds like it served you well! 😊
@paulfalke6227 Жыл бұрын
The TI-99/4A had 128 times 16bit "full speed" RAM and 16KByte video RAM. The access time from the CPU to the video RAM was much slower than to the tiny real RAM. Then "mini memory module" has 4 KByte "full speed" RAM plus 10 KByte ROM. This module was necessary for assembler programming.
@greggeshelman 10 ай бұрын
It has 16K RAM for the Video Display Processor. TI BASIC stores program code in the VDP RAM. Then there's 256 bytes RAM directly accessible by the CPU. Without the 32K upgrade that tiny amount of RAM is mostly used for things like registers and stack pointers.
@GarthBeagle Жыл бұрын
I wanna hear it say FART or FARTS, or some other rude expletive 🤪
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
But what might that summon????!!?
@RockyBergen Жыл бұрын
That bit at the end reminds me of some of the text to sound AI stuff out there.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Terrifyingly so!
@WhatHoSnorkers Жыл бұрын
A late Halloween episode! Terrifying!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
An accidental one!
@johnbtiger 8 ай бұрын
You Two Are Sooooooo Funnnnnny :-))))))))
@fractalMD 8 ай бұрын
:))))))))
@61pwcc Жыл бұрын
Great video! 32K is not needed to utilize the Speech Synthesizer. Back in the 80s, l used the Terminal Emulator ll cartridge and was good to go. Never got the memory expansion.
@fractalMD 11 ай бұрын
Thx!
@Alex_Valentine Жыл бұрын
You opened the Gate! We're all doomed.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
DOOOOOOOM!
@spicehedge Жыл бұрын
What the last looping part sounded like to me "We have found your father" 👀
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
"Luke I am your faather" Since we spelled it wrong it made it that much crazier!
@douglasleany6091 Жыл бұрын
So first I heard Steven Hawking say, "The Taylor and Amy Show," and then apparently, the Dark Lord that lives inside all computers took over. I hope you escape his clutches so you can post another video. If not, it was great seeing you. And now I'm going to go hug my teddy bear. 😐
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
That would explain A LOT
@LanceHall Жыл бұрын
Y'all are having too much fun.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Impossible!
@bretlinden8248 Жыл бұрын
Taylor was laughing so hard I thought she may have peed her pants
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
I think it was touch and go for a second there.
@xenosaga1348 Жыл бұрын
I had a dream that I played strip Atari 2600 Warlords with Taylor and Amy. I'm sick I know.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
1. Invade dreams 2. World domination
@johanlaurasia Жыл бұрын
Lol, the Majel Barrett sound pak... WORKING....
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
WE NEED IT
@Tom-nt8km Жыл бұрын
Ninja door kicks are the only true way to close a door!
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 6 ай бұрын
it had the mul and umul and the div and udiv before any other CPUs had them except for the 6809 which had the mul instruction and no other advanced instruction.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Because MAGIC
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 6 ай бұрын
C for the TI-99 4A could have been brilliant.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
If only!
@bttmfrezzo Жыл бұрын
I think yal accidently soldered a jumper to enable "possessed mode" on that synthesizer and summoned some demons or something!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
That would explain A LOT.
@MatthewSuffidy 4 ай бұрын
I am not familiar with the TI expansion port, but I am guessing there was some power available on the pins for a small newer card to use. There are limits to the amount of amperage or milla amps usually for any given supply voltages on ports. So it may or may not work out just saying ok have some, but maybe ok.
@lsdowdle Жыл бұрын
New to your channel. I grew up in Memphis but have been in Montana (via the USAF) since 1986. So, have you gals hear of the MiSTer FPGA project? It has cores for a ton of retro computers, gaming consoles and handhelds, as well as arcade machines. You should really check it out. If you have any questions, let me know. It isn't a commercial product but a community project. I've had one for 2+ years and it is constantly coming out with new stuff.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Go grind city! Indeed we have heard of these things. We right now are more riding close to the original hardware, but it doesn't mean we may not dive into it, at some point. :)
@lsdowdle Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD - Not to be pushy, but just a little info about FPGAs if they are new-ish to you. An FPGA is basically a chip full of parts and pieces that can be dynamically organized to create CPUs, sound chips, video chips, RAM, a motherboard, etc. It is basically like a Transformer where one minute its a car and another minute it's an airplane... and it is doing it with hardware recreation, just at a microscopic level. The MiSTer FPGA Project is all about hardware preservation. So while I've seen a number of the full-size recreations (as well as original hardware) ya'll have featured in your videos... you can do the same thing in FPGA just by using an on-screen menu to switch between the hundreds of available cores. A "core" is a system implemented in the FPGA. Almost every piece of hardware ya'll have covered to date is included and way, way more... all in a fairly tiny piece of hardware that offers modern features like HDMI output, USB input, often with "cycle accurate" input/output latencies of the original hardware... with the sdcard disk adapters for all of the systems just built-in to the core. Sound complicated? Nowhere near as much as you might imagine. There are various curated software collections available for most of the cores MiSTer offers. If ya'll would be interested in borrowing a MiSTer from me for a few months, I'd be happy to mail my spare MiSTer to you. If this sounds like some creepy sales pitch, it isn't. Again, it's a community driven project, not a commercial product, and I'm just an enthusiast myself. When you get a minute, just take a look at all of the available cores on the MiSTer wiki in the long column on the lower right: github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki I have personally only used about a 10th of the available cores and haven't found time to get into many of the earlier retro computers ya'll have showcased thus far.
@jeffreyphipps1507 Жыл бұрын
RedRum! RedRum!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Oh the humanity
@greggv8 10 ай бұрын
Do you want a TI speech challenge? Try making it properly pronounce Taj Mahal. I did that many years ago and it took a lot of tries with creative spelling to get it to pronounce something close to how it's supposed to be. In contrast, getting it to correctly say the name of the capital city of Idaho, which is Boise, was easy. Tell it to say BOY C.
@fractalMD 10 ай бұрын
I mean, stuff you don't think about until you are trying to explain to a robot how to say something.
@the_leathermushroom Жыл бұрын
Taylor & Amy vs The Evil Dead....
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
And me without my chainsaw arm...
@the_leathermushroom Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD Don't worry, the TI99 can do it all!
@Alibm80 Жыл бұрын
Hilarious! 😂😂😂😂😂
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
😃😃😃
@bretlinden8248 Жыл бұрын
Am I correct when I say Taylor is wearing a Star Wars shirt while playing a Star Trek game?
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
She even called herself out on that! But we are huge hands of both, so it's aaaaaalllll good.
@mikelunsford7462 Жыл бұрын
Will the speech board plug in to the console upsidedown? Because it really looks like someone could put it together wrong.. just saying
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
I'm afraid that might upset it even more!
@coreyostman Жыл бұрын
I don't know about TI99 BASIC syntax, but have you tried moving the I outside the double quotes like: "//"+I+"... or "//",I,"... ? I know Applesoft Basic doesn't know how to include variables inside double quotes. This video was so fun to watch!!!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
We are afraid to mess around too much in case we get transported to the shadow realm or something.
@coreyostman Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD I just about died when you set it to //1 -- it definitely sounded like a droid! I think Taylor should make it her ringtone.
@elyuw Жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same Corey, at the moment it’s just using I all the time which appears to be the option to demonise the TI99 🤣
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
@@elyuw Such a "happy" accident. 😫
@darylmullins4369 Жыл бұрын
Can you tell us what contact points you actually connected together inside the speech synthesizer? I know it is to bridge the power through the synthesizer so the 32k module works, but I would like to verify.
@inerlogic 10 ай бұрын
You jumper pin 1 across
@jameschamplin1742 Жыл бұрын
BLAST THOSE K'T'INGAS!!! Wow that sounds weird without context! Also, what's the BASIC code that led to the laughter? I need to know!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Oh man, I think just typos for days. As usual!
@stefanbauch2981 Жыл бұрын
The "I" variable included in the FOR-NEXT loop is not recognized that way, it is just a fixed part of the string ... try using PRINT #1;"// "&STR$(I)&" 100" for a loop with different values.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Yeah. The way we did it is only recognized by demons, apparently.
@inerlogic 10 ай бұрын
Add a delay, tell it to print I, and then you can see which value sounds like what you're looking for
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 6 ай бұрын
Just think if they had a VGA graphics adapter in that machine how good would that be.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Nuts
@baladinbaladin2549 7 ай бұрын
Mon premier PC personnel en 1981 mes 20a
@fractalMD 5 ай бұрын
Super!
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 6 ай бұрын
If only they had used the TMS99110A CPU they could have had IEEE754 floating point capability not just integer.
@ianhanschen Жыл бұрын
@20:00 Sounds like the zombie dwarves in Phantasm
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Dear god, does it? Keep that away from me!
@DJTI99 Жыл бұрын
"Selling it way below cost..." Just like me!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
You are priceless!
@DJTI99 Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD Priceless, worthless... Tomato, tomahto. LOL
@Prime-1111X Жыл бұрын
I have both items for my TI/99 . I wonder if the same speech chip was used in my Vtech Talking Wiz Kid?
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
And if it is also possessed?
@Prime-1111X Жыл бұрын
@amy Only when I turn it on lol. My last TI caught on fire.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
@@Prime-1111X Dear lord!
@Prime-1111X Жыл бұрын
@amy It was probably me kept it plugged in without a surge protector. It was the early 90's, I didn't know any better.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
@@Prime-1111X Would be an invigorating way to start the day!
@fsimoesar 7 ай бұрын
did you know if you just type "15" ans then use FTN + up arrow, line 15 will come up and you will be able to edit it?
@fractalMD 5 ай бұрын
Black magic!
@pauldemelto6650 9 ай бұрын
Please do more TI 99 4A stuff!
@fractalMD 9 ай бұрын
Gotta keep the 99ers happy!
@pauldemelto6650 9 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD We are not normal nerds.
@fractalMD 9 ай бұрын
@@pauldemelto6650Perish the thought!
@chaoticsystem2211 Жыл бұрын
A fully upgraded ti99 is how long? 3 meters?
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Like 3 city blocks.
@floydjohnson7888 Жыл бұрын
I don't mean to be weird, but I get the impression you'd be great to meet in person.
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
That's not weird, that's just accurate!
@fsimoesar 7 ай бұрын
cute. Where can I find the memory upgrade mod ?
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
I'll see if I can get the info out of Taylor
@EricsEdgeVideos Жыл бұрын
Make sure you surround the TI with a ring of salt next time you try that. 😂
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
You are not even kidding.
@MQsto Жыл бұрын
I think it is safe to say that this show has now demonstrated to everyone how low can you get :-P
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
😎
@MiLLy_xz Жыл бұрын
hi me a game girl too ... and i subscribe here today perfect videos i like it 😍
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Welcome! 😃
@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs Жыл бұрын
Hey you can Play with that on Sundays stream I think it needs CPR
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
More like a exorcism!
@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD It was crazy Funny
@diehlr Жыл бұрын
Taylor malfunctioned at 17:15
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
It's all good, I rebooted her.
@davidseim3064 6 ай бұрын
Great episode! But - wearing a Star Wars t-shirt to play a Star Trek game, is that even legal?
@fractalMD 5 ай бұрын
Lol
@jeffreyphipps1507 Жыл бұрын
So... you want a Speak-and-Spell??? Did the PEB you got not have the card 32K?
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Looool. For sentimental reasons!
@geekwithsocialskills Жыл бұрын
The TI99/4A is way better than the Commodore VIC-20, however not as awesome as the Commodore 64.
@geekwithsocialskills Жыл бұрын
I played Star Trek on my C64 a lot back in the day. Fun game. Having the speech is really cool!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Main thing is to keep this particular TI99/4A away from Ouija boards.
@awilliams1701 9 ай бұрын
you should have made it say redum! LMAO
@fractalMD 9 ай бұрын
Already too scared!
@OGHUGO Жыл бұрын
TOYS !
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
Can never have too many...
@666Astrosmurf Жыл бұрын
You nerdy girls deserve more viewers!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
I mean, we don't disagree! 😃
@marissaperry6344 Жыл бұрын
that should be apart of your intro!
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
I'm afraid everyone would flee in terror!
@marissaperry6344 Жыл бұрын
@@fractalMD I was referring to the name of the channel.
@Inaflap Жыл бұрын
I want one of these fully-functional robots. I want a Japanese one, but I want it to sound like a 1970s cylon, when it nags me non-stop during my night flight to Venus. /watch?v=aJVqPWzunwM
@fractalMD Жыл бұрын
So say we all
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