JAN 2007:

FEB 2007: Munchmates is released on the www.dreamcodex.comwww.dreamcodex.com website. The program is a remake of the TI-99/4A game Munchman. Guide one of the MunchMates through the maze, making links and avoiding the Hoonos is a quest to forge the chains of love. MunchMates is a release celebrating the 25th anniversary of Munchman, one of the most beloved titles on the TI-99/4A home computer. It recreates the original game maze with Munch Matey, offers a new level with Munch Missy, and even lets you play the unreleased original prototype maze as Munch Proto. This game is suitable for players of all ages, and I hope you find it enjoyable!

MAR 2007:

APR 2007:

MAY 2007: Cartridge collector Jim Fetzner reports in a post on the TI-99 On-Line User Group that beside the Mini Memory module, the never released BASIC SUPPORT MODULE is only other module that TI made that had RAM (2K).

JUN 2007: An article entitled “The 10 Worst PCs of All Time” by Dan Tynan appears in PC World magazine. The article lists the TI-99/4 as number 6 on the list of 10. "Texas Instruments' foray into the home computer market didn't last long, and the TI-99/4 offers a few clues as to why. At a time when all other home machines connected to your television, the 99/4 worked only with its own display--which was in fact a bulky 13-inch Zenith TV. Its keyboard came with Chiclet-sized keys more appropriate to one of TI's hand calculators, and like your computer-illiterate mother-in-law, the machine could type only in SCREAMING CAPITAL LETTERS. Two years later the company released the TI-99/4A, which featured more powerful processors, a better keyboard, the ability to plug in your own monitor, uppercase and lowercase letters, and a price tag less than half the TI-99/4's $1150. But it wasn't enough. TI exited the home PC biz a few years later, focusing exclusively on laptops.”

• The complete list includes:
1. Packard Bell
2. Mattel Barbie PC (1999-2000)
3. Coleco ADAM (1983)
4. Apple III (1980-1984)
5. IBM PS/1 (1990-1994)
6. Texas Instruments 99/4
7. Commodore VIC-20
8. eMachines
9. New Internet Computer
10. Dell Dimension 4600


• Information about the creation of the MOOG SL-8 Music Synthesizer and its use of the TI-99/4 and TMS 9900 microchip surfaces on the Internet at Moog Archives. It is excerpted here for the TI-99/4 information.  “The SL-8 was based upon the TI 99/4 16 bit microcomputer and the SW development was done on the TMS 9900 development system. One of the really cool attributes of the TMS 9900 MCU was it had a considerably faster 3.3 MHz clock than the 8051/8031 MCU used in the Roland and the 8085 in the Korg units at the time. It ran rings around a Z80 because of the 16 bit data path and the unique ability of the 9900 to store all user registers in RAM and update the "RAM Registers" in a single instruction cycle.” - Craig

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SEP 2007:

OCT 2007: The 25th Chicago TI International World Faire is held at the Evanston American Legion Post 42 in Evanston, Illinois on Saturday October 20, 2007. During the Faire Richard Bell receives the John Birdwell Memorial Award, Walid Maalouli receives the Rob Tempelman Plat Award award for the TI-99/4A Game Shelf website, it is announced that John Birdwell has been inducted into the TI99'ers Hall of Fame .Compliments of Hal Shanafield and his son Tom, the Chicago TI Faire is broadcast on live Web Cam video over the Internet for the first time ever, allowing 99ers around the world to share in the event at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ti994a-chicago-user-group-faire.

• Marc Hull of Oklahoma City, OK releases TI99 CLICKEY, a rendition of the popular KLICKETY game most notable to the Linux Community.

• Apple Inc., which had dropped the “Computer” from it’s official name because of the success of the iPOD and iPHONE products, begins shipping the Macintosh computer with Mac OS/X Leopard.

NOV 2007: Harold Mayo of Sperry, OK dies on November 7th. Harold was the SysOp of the Orphanage BBS, probably the last true BBS in the TI community.

• Bruce Harrison of Hyattsville, Maryland dies unexpectedly on November 10th. Bruce was the Assembly language guru of the TI community. Bruce was inducted into the TI99'ers Hall of Fame on March 26, 2006. Bruce is survived by his ex-Wife, Lory Werths, daughter Karen and his infamous cat, the "Rotten Cat".

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