Tex

the tex logo

tex is a technology company based in [name pending major city, [name pending magenta]] created by Beak Fence, their most popular product is a software by the same name as the company: tex. they have also made two pieces of hardware: the texphone and the textop (not available in-game). the company also has an annual festival in which they announce their next product, it consistantly has the highest turnout of any festival. Their design room's name is "California". I LOVE TEX!

## history

### 1990s

tex was founded on the 1st of November 1997 by Beak Fence after he awoke from a dream about kittens, after this revelation he decided to make the first ever version of tex, this version of tex uses three physical light switches which turn off and on three lights with labels next to the to signify their meaning, the first ever unit of this original model of can be found hanging on the wall in the texHQ. this model was first sold on the 23rd of December 1998 this amazing piece of technology amazed the people of [name pending magenta] who bought the product in droves.

### 2000s

the home appliance version of tex had been selling so well that they didn't produce or develop any other products untill 02/02/2000 when Beak Fence hired apl boi who could "fly so far so far so far". apl boi and Beak Fence designed the texphone on the 13th of May 2000, and the textop on the 21st of July 2000, both of which were released on the 1st of November 2001, three years after the company was founded. the products were again a hit success with the textop being sold in most major cities and the texphone being sold in almost every temsco store. for the next 15 years they released one app for the texphone per year at their annual texfestival every 1st of november.

### 2010s

In 2012 they were awarded a rune by The Astral Rune Association. Up until 2016 the company was releasing 1 app per year, however for the 20th annual textival in 2017, the company announced that instead of a new app, that a new employee would be hired, and the announcement of who was chosen would be announced live at the textival21. in 2018 the employee was announced to be Wüd Skwaer famed for his ability to "strat". in 2019 they unavailed the texboard, a tex company keyboard.

### 2020s

for textival23 the map (introduced at textival19) was upgraded to now be able to show the whole world instead of just a map of [name pending magenta], this update popularised it outside the region to the point where 87% of all people had a texphone (97% in [name pending magenta]). at textival24 the soundtrack app was released. at textival25 luna was announced as the 4th employee of tex.

## products

### tex (software)

tex is a piece of software that allows the user to utilise various toggles. these toggles are: on/off, yes/no, and ok/not ok. tex is available for textopOS, texphoneOS, and a physical home appliance version. it will be sold for 3€ at any major Temsco and every Temsco in [name pending magenta].

### texphone

the texphone is a mobile phone that runs texphoneOS, it will be available from the start of Astrorune Neon. all 3 main characters of Astrorune Neon have one.

#### texphoneOS

texphoneOS comes pre-installed with just the clock app and the player has to obtain the rest through various means. the apps available for texphoneOS are as follows:

* clock (shows your seed x3 instead of the time)
* coin
* memo
* tex
* counter
* calc
* pedometer
* stopwatch
* button
* boris (he likes to party)
* calendar
* pixel
* bno
* gambling

this list is subject to change as the feature is still being worked on

### textop

the textop is a laptop that runs textopOS, you cannot access it in any version of astrorune. out of the 3 main characters only luna has a textop.

#### textopOS

textopOS is the OS which the textop runs, it is not available in-game, however it is stated that that tex (the software) has been released for the OS.

## partnerships

### temsco

on the 1st of November 1998 tex and temsco entered a partnership together in which tex, instead of selling their products to the market directly, would sell it to temsco which in turn would sell it to the public. this worked well as it meant tex got more exposure and temsco got to gain a profit off of the ever increasing popularity of the tex product line-up.