TI-99/4A Cassette Fun: TI BASIC Tutorials and Games

It's cassette time on the TI-99/4A! We look at a donation from viewer Kevin of a GE tape deck and cable, along with a tutorial cassette. We learn about OLD and some other TI BASIC oddities, create some kind of pixel guy, and revisit the so-called optimized BASIC program from a previous episode. Finally, I put out a call for information about MAXXAM:KARATE and then finally try a car battling game I've owned for years but have been unable to play. And somewhere along the way, tragedy strikes when the Function key is misused. To support 8-Bit Show And Tell: Become a patron: https://patreon.com/8BitShowAndTell One-time donation: https://paypal.me/8BitShowAndTell 2nd channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCAgWzEh5c8391eJnELDy9OA Links: My Previous TI episode: https://youtu.be/isLZEswOmP8 Pixel Pedant: "Let’s Talk About TI BASIC on the TI-99/4A": https://youtu.be/ls-PxqRQ35Q A disk version of "Beginner's BASIC Tutor" appears to be part of this collection: https://archive.org/details/Texas_Instruments_TI-99_4a_TOSEC_2012_04_23 MAXXAM in Analog Computing magazine, Issue 11, page 44: https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-11/page/n43/mode/2up MAXXAM Dataware Cartridge Simulator: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/292537-maxxam-dataware-cartridge-simulator/ End credits music is "Steps Creaked (World 2)", recorded on a real NES, from the Super Splatform OST by P1XL Games: https://p1xlgames.bandcamp.com/ Index 0:00 Computer Program Data Recorder 4:00 Hooking up the TI-99/4a 6:35 Loading BASIC Tutor: Lesson One cassette 9:47 LISTing 10:52 RUNning Lesson One 23:05 Loading and RUNning Lesson Five 27:14 Pixel Time: Auto Character Definition 29:35 Revisiting that Sketch program: Edits, Optimization 35:43 A Terrible Mistake 37:56 Help wanted: MAXXAM:KARATE 39:28 Cars & Carcasses II: Run Down Monsters! 46:27 A good run: finally getting the hang of it 49:08 Thanks!