My Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Home Computer Page

My Early Experiences with the TI-99/4A:

The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Home Computer is my first and truest retrocomputing love. We had a TI-99/4A in the house when I was very young in the early 1980s, and I have many fond memories of the TI-99/4A from those days:

Educational games (i.e., cartridges or "command modules") for the TI-99/4A such as Early Learning Fun, Beginning Grammar, Alien Addition, Dragon Mix, etc.
Learning to program in TI BASIC using various resources such as the Beginner's BASIC and User's Reference Guide manuals included with the TI-99/4A, and the 10-part Teach Yourself BASIC series of programs on cassette. I recently completed video/emulation run-throughs of these resources, which you can see in the following YouTube playlists:
A cute little asterisk-shooting program, Shooting Star, that my dad wrote for me in TI BASIC and saved on cassette. Sadly the cassette that this program was stored on has been lost, but I have slowly been working on my own recreation (and improved version) of Shooting Star in TI Extended BASIC. I'll post the completed program here after I've completed it; stay tuned!
Having great fun playing various games for the TI-99/4A, such as Alpiner, Car Wars, Centipede, Hangman, Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position, TI Invaders, Video Chess, ZeroZap, etc.
Messing around with the TI-99/4A Speech Synthesizer and getting it to say all kinds of crazy things!
Composing music on the TI-99/4A via the Music Maker cartridge / command module.
Typing in various TI BASIC type-in programs from computer books such as 101 Programming Tips & Tricks for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Home Computer by Len Turner. I recently completed a video/emulation run-through of all 101 programs from this book, which you can see in the follolwing YouTube playlist:
- 101 Programming Tips & Tricks for the texas Instruments TI-99/4A Home Computer (YouTube Playlist)

My List of Essential TI-99/4A Links:

The following are some essential links to information about the TI-99/4A with emphases on the TI-99/4A as a viable retrocomputing platform, TI BASIC and TI Extended BASIC software development, and TI-99/4A emulation:

Classic99 Emulator—Perhaps the best TI-99/4A emulator out there, gracefully bestowed upon the world by Tursi.
TI-99/4A Collection on Archive.org—The Internet Archive hosts a large collection of TI-99/4A books, magazines, newsletters, and documents.
AtariAge TI-99/4A Computers Forum—A popular TI-99/4A community, forum, and message board.
ftp.whtech.com—A popular TI-99/4A FTP site hosting an archive of downloadable TI-99/4A materials, files, and resources.
TI-99/4A Cartridge / Command Module ROMs—An archive of TI-99/4A cartridge / command module ROMs compatible with various TI-99/4A emulators.
TI-99/4A-Pedia—A TI-99/4A wiki site with loads of historical information on the TI-99/4A.

This page was last updated on 11/6/2025.