After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
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Re: After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
#2Interesting how the connotations of parent guidance have changed over the years. It’s pretty rare these days to see “no parental guidance necessary.”
Re: After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
#3Cool! I just wrote my first assembly program for the TI-99/4A, and am working on a TMS9900 assembler.
Re: After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
#4Cool! I just wrote my first assembly program for the TI-99/4A, and am working on a TMS9900 assembler.
(author) I thought AS worked pretty well. The syntax is a little idiosyncratic but it "just worked" once I learned its pet peeves, and it seems to have specific support for the added 9995 instructions.
Re: After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
#5I believe my first "computer" could have been the toy version of the Tomy Tutor:
Re: After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
#6The title alone speaks to me.
Thank you for the article.
Re: After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
#7The backstory of the Tomy Tutor is interesting. This seems like it was a tremendous longshot, financially. It’s hard to imagine how this would be greenlit in today’s age. There are so many weird architectures of the 1980s — I appreciate the quirkiness and diversity.
Re: After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
#8Cool! I just wrote my first assembly program for the TI-99/4A, and am working on a TMS9900 assembler.
(author) I thought AS worked pretty well. The syntax is a little idiosyncratic but it "just worked" once I learned its pet peeves, and it seems to have specific support for the added 9995 instructions.
I used AS to write the program, and it is my "reference assembler" for the one I am writing. I just wanted to see if I could write a working retro assembler.
Re: After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
#9Oh wow, I remember these, barely. I never used one though.
Re: After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
#10Cool! I just wrote my first assembly program for the TI-99/4A, and am working on a TMS9900 assembler.
(author) I thought AS worked pretty well. The syntax is a little idiosyncratic but it "just worked" once I learned its pet peeves, and it seems to have specific support for the added 9995 instructions.
Have you found your way to Stuart Conner's page? http://www.stuartconner.me.uk/
Lots of resources on the original TI dev boards and tools for TMS99Xx.