TI-99/4A Floppies

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Mon Oct 1 20:51:15 CDT 2007


At 6:21 PM -0700 10/1/07, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>On Monday 01 October 2007 15:19, Mark Meiss wrote:
>>  Preservation for TI-99/4A software on floppies seems to be pretty poor
>>  right now, because of (as Jim mentioned) the rarity of the expansion box
>>  and third-party software that used it.
>
>Does there exist an emulator that can make use of the disk images?

Yes, but then I would have thought you'd know that. :^)  Your 
software seems to be used as the disk format for at least one.

http://www.mrousseau.org/programs/ti99sim/

>It strikes me that you're probably not going to find a COBOL compiler
>or heavy-duty productivity software in the collection, but the games
>might be interesting to some.

Actually I think there might be some productivity software in there. 
I don't know about a COBOL compiler, but I believe there is at least 
one language disk.  I'm hope to find time in the next couple months 
to do some inventorying of the floppies.

		Zane



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