I decided I wanted more control over how my products were packaged and marketsĪnd of course there was only one way to do that… form your own company. Release through Asgard was “Disk of Pyrates”. Music, educational text materials and in later volumes, a game. They were theme-based packages which consisted of images/clipart, In many ways was a forerunner to what companies would eventually called Of Dinosaurs” which started the “Disk of” series. My first solo commercial release was “Disk Asgard ended up marketing some of these as well Typefaces now with the huge array of TTF and PFM fonts, but back then thereĭoom Editor being released I started creating hybrid adventures on my “still”įavorite TI-99 game.
Software contacted me about making clipart for the popular TI-Artist program. Music but I soon discovered that it was the graphics and animation that Things, I always assume my shareware music disks were popular for their
I take full responsibility for that horror, too. I cringeĪt the thought of hearing the TI sing through Patsy Cline’s hits, but yes, Musicals such as South Pacific, the Music Man and Wizard of OZ. Started my series of “singing” disks which included musical and song from The TI’s musical octave range and added voice to my music programs.
To Jim Peterson, after studying many of his programs I learned how to expand Of these was the text graphic images of my BBS's monthly "Girlie Calendar" Programs I had written and started to create shareware disks. I began assembling the many music-graphic Online games ranged from a Beatles trivia multiple choice quiz to a role-playingīBS, I was introduced to TI-99 user groups and started a membership in the Well as text graphics, online games and a message forum for all users. The "KBGB BBS" ran forĪbout 3 years and featured TE-2 16-color for TI systems that logged on as System) world long before the days of the internet (I want to say aroundġ984) with a Cal-Tex BBS system. I also ventured into the BBS (bulletin board For those who don't know, the "Source"Įventually merged into CompuServe which eventually turned into AOL with Graphical music program "Siegfried's Funeral Music" (by composer Source" and I won first prize in a programming contest on it for my
Years I did music programs with graphics. Programs and showed him, thus starting my computing life as a programmer. I returned days later with my cassette tape of Rep remembered me but seemed unconvinced that within a week I could haveĪlready mastered TI-Basic. After a week of playing around, programmingĪnd composing digital music, I returned to the store and purchased the tapeĬassette recorder so I could actually save my programs on tape. Of machinery back then- I think I paid $350-400 for the console and another Me on the TI-99/4a was the speech synthesizer which a TI Representative Life with a TI-99/4a in 1981, the year it was introduced. The TI-99/4a, Ken Gilliland and Notung Software