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Re:Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code by cableshaft on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:37AM (#14004209)
I started development on Texas Instrument calculators. On most of those, you could only have one letter variables in its TI-BASIC programming. I lucked out and convinced my parents to spring a little extra for the TI-85, and it had a lot of extra goodies, including named variables.

I credit a lot of my initial understanding of how programming works to making various text-based games on those calculators while only half paying attention to class in high school.

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Re:Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code by kkoomi on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:12PM (#14010192)
The TI-85/6 is a magical device. A widespread built-in text editor, compiler and GUI library in one.

I was very sad when I realized the BASIC performance was like an order of magnitude worse than ASM performance.

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