I didn’t see you enter the room. Welcome bud.
Thank you…
And a huge
to @Tallytony & @anon72228237 for tracking me down ITRW and inviting me here.
Truly this is an amazing thing that @Pepper_Thine_Angus, @papy, @VTR have done after the Amazon Seller Forums disaster.
I appreciate you all.
Glad you made it, hope it feels homey!
Note: there are ton of vids on youtube on how to bypass the TPM check.
I know, and I can just enable TPM 2.0. My computer is capable.
I’m just not convinced I want to.
They are 4As, but they have two different keyboards (I know this because I bought one hoping to poach the keycaps but bzzt- they don’t fit).
My brother managed to find a bunch of cartridges with their OG manuals intact, so we have a little antique PC setup for when people whine about graphics in modern games.
Munch Man (which is totally not pacman, I swear), Parsec, and Microsurgeon are some of my favorites.
Let me guess one is shiny metal the original and the other is a white plastic housing?
The white housing was an effort to reduce costs and to prevent copying of ROMs. The white TI-99/4As won’t work with certain hardware or ROMs.
I love the TI-99/4A’s graphics and speech synthesis. Parsec is just a fantastic, under appreciated game as is Alpiner both are incredible with or without the speech synthesizer expansion side car. Milton Bradley produced for a brief period an MBX expansion that supported speech recognition. My TI-99/4A software collection contains over 150 titles (cassettes, floppies, command module ROMs, most with the original boxes and manuals).
Munch Man is such a classic! Did you know that Atari actually sold Pac-Man & Ms Pac-Man for the TI-99/4A?
Munch Man TI-99/4A
Pac-Man TI-99/4A
Exactly! Totally different!
Both of them are shiny metal, actually!
I heard awhile back that some of the old Homebrew guys were working on a PS/2 keyboard adapter. If you can find their forum, you could look and see how that project is coming along. And if you just need the keys for a Mylar Mitsumi keyboard I seem to recall ArcadeShopper mentioning that they had an entire box of junk Mitsumi keyboards.