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All the TIs, Amiga, Amstrad, etc... Work ootb. You can find those converters for a few bucks on ebay. If you want to get fancy buy yourself an OSSC to get a really good image quality.
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Not to denigrate the post, but the TI-99/4A did color out of the box; this post is talking about a modern adapter board to work with a modern display instead of TI's proprietary monitor or a TV. I know because I first programmed on a TI-99/4A and we didn't have the space nor free connection to hook it to the living room TV, so I used a 13" B&W TV in my room for years before ever seeing the color that it was capable o…
It was years into my computing journey before I saw such a crisp display. It always throws me for a little bit of dissonance whenever I see a TI-99/4A on an emulator or here with a VGA output going to a LCD display.
Not to denigrate the post, but the TI-99/4A did color out of the box; this post is talking about a modern adapter board to work with a modern display instead of TI's proprietary monitor or a TV. I know because I first programmed on a TI-99/4A and we didn't have the space nor free connection to hook it to the living room TV, so I used a 13" B&W TV in my room for years before ever seeing the color that it was capable o…
It's still amazing to see an image coming out of the TI-99/4A without any ghosting or other analog artifacts. It was years into my computing journey before I saw such a crisp display. It always throws me for a little bit of dissonance whenever I see a TI-99/4A on an emulator or here with a VGA output going to a LCD display.
Props to you. The TI-99/4A was my second -- and longest childhood -- computer. Getting one working again so perfectly warms my heart. Fun fact about the TI-99/4A: It was actually fast , sporting a 16-bit CPU in an 8-bit era. The BASIC interpreter was slow because it, like many TI-99/4A programs, was written in a sort of interpreted bytecode that could live in video RAM/ROM. The CPU itself had access to only 256 bytes…
Not to denigrate the post, but the TI-99/4A did color out of the box; this post is talking about a modern adapter board to work with a modern display instead of TI's proprietary monitor or a TV. I know because I first programmed on a TI-99/4A and we didn't have the space nor free connection to hook it to the living room TV, so I used a 13" B&W TV in my room for years before ever seeing the color that it was capable o…
Not to denigrate the post, but the TI-99/4A did color out of the box; this post is talking about a modern adapter board to work with a modern display instead of TI's proprietary monitor or a TV. I know because I first programmed on a TI-99/4A and we didn't have the space nor free connection to hook it to the living room TV, so I used a 13" B&W TV in my room for years before ever seeing the color that it was capable o…
Props to you. The TI-99/4A was my second -- and longest childhood -- computer. Getting one working again so perfectly warms my heart. Fun fact about the TI-99/4A: It was actually fast , sporting a 16-bit CPU in an 8-bit era. The BASIC interpreter was slow because it, like many TI-99/4A programs, was written in a sort of interpreted bytecode that could live in video RAM/ROM. The CPU itself had access to only 256 bytes…
That brings back memories. Parsec was a great game.