>I wrote several computer games in 1985 - 1987 on my TI-99, one to replicate the "Track & Field" game that was in the arcades back then. I'd love to have a copy of that code today.
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>Did you have one of those?

Nope, I had 2 PCs and an IBM-AT by then I was doing a ton of media conversion from CPM machines and main frames onto PCs. I had a 9-Track tape drive (the big real to real tapes) on my original PC 8-) I still do the main frame work but the volume is way lower these days.

My dad had a TI-99 but he was in Wisconsin and I was on the West Coast so I never really got a chance to play with it.

>>Do you remember "Sprites"? An animated graphic bitmap you could set in motion and it would keep going.

Yep sprites were high tech animations in those days.

>Cassette data storage and I had the Voice Synthesizer.
>I was 16 years old at that time.

Cool a Voice Synthesizer was a pretty high tech device back then.