Casey Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 (edited) The 99/8 fascinates me because it was almost done and then not released. I see lots of fascinating things being done with the 99/4A - is there any interest in exploring what the 99/8 could have done, since we have the emulation available in MAME? The discussion about CALL LINK and floating point numbers made me remember that Extended BASIC II has an integer data type available, and it would just be much faster anyway because of the 9995. I haven't seen much being done with the 99/8 emulation since it has been made available. Is there any interest, either in BASIC, or assembly, in tapping into the potential of the 99/8? Edited July 29, 2017 by Casey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 What would be awesome would be a TI 99/4A Next (like the Spectrum Next) that included the 99/8 for development.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Is there any interest in exploring what the 99/8 could have done, since we have the emulation available in MAME? There is still a problem, and arguably a major one: We do not yet have a working floppy support for the 99/8. I am currently working on the Hexbus floppy emulation; once this is available, we can start with writing programs for it. The PEB with the standard TI controller works with the 99/8 in Editor/Assembler, but not with Extended Basic II. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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