Well, seems I can die just as easily on the IIgs version 😬

Yeah so that probably wasn’t the correct thing to do then… 😱 💀

@[email protected] yikes! Though now you’ve made me want to try the ST version, I have the 1040 set up for a Halloween thing so it’s right there… 🤔

@Twig thank you so much for this, I’ve been wanting a keyboard IC alternative for a *very* long time!

Thanks also to @batteman for the boost that made this visible to me 😎👍

@[email protected] oh yeah those are terrible! I’d forgotten that, mine were broken anyway so I made an adapter for Atari style controllers instead.

@[email protected] yeah it’s 16-bit but using 8-bit interfacing chips most likely for cost reasons, similiar to what Sinclair would later do with the QL - and with similar speed tradeoffs.

I think of TI as a reliable chip company so it’s curious to me they couldn’t make this system more successful. A bunch of strangely insular decisions on software seems to be the main issue, and why it probably didn’t come close to the others in popularity.

@[email protected] until I got this one and repaired it, I’d never seen or used one before. I’m not even sure I knew it existed at the time. It’s an unusual design internally, ahead of its time in some ways. I’m now trying to find all the fun stuff for it!