![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the one game that really got me interested in programming is Kevin Kenney’s Tunnels of Doom, one of the very first graphic dungeon crawler games. In addition to being my first programmable computer, the TI-99/4A sported truly nice graphics and a relatively advanced sound chip-for the era-and a number of games were developed for it. Even the popular TRS-80 Color Computer, Radio Shack’s 6809-based computer, ran at a mere 0.895MHz, or, if the gods were good to you, you could tweak the clock divisor and crank it up to 1.79MHz. Its CPU, a true 16 bits processor, the TMS 9900, ran at 3MHz. A truly incredible machine, especially considering the era. Æons ago, that is, in September 1982, I got my first true computer, the Texas Instrument TI-99/4A. ![]()
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