Many kids in the United States grew up leaning to program BASIC on a TI-99/4A and used it to experience video games for the first time, which they could do through plug-in program cartridges.

His friend gave him a TI-99/4A a few years ago with a few cartridges. Cracking those cartridges open revealed one PCB that would hold an EEPROM. Writing his Java byte-code-derived assembly to a ...

The TI-99/4A wasn’t the easiest machine to develop ... The group had to resort to a cartridge-based assembler to get the job done. In the machine’s favour, it has a great sound chip put ...