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Re:A collection of modern games for the TI-99/4A by chasil on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:11PM (#28578126)
TI Basic lacked peek and poke, so no access to assembler was available with the base unit, unlike every other competitor.

I would much rather have had something with a 6502.

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Re:A collection of modern games for the TI-99/4A by wsc981 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:43PM (#28578321)
TI Extended Basic had CALL PEEK and CALL LOAD that could be used for similar purposes, from what I’ve read:

https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/Programming#Useful_CALL_LOAD...

But you are correct, the base unit didn’t have access to these functions. You did need to get the TI Extended Basic cartridge.

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Re:A collection of modern games for the TI-99/4A by dnotq on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:10PM (#28579338)
The TI-BASIC SandBox was broken:

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/218904-playground/

It was possible BITD too, but no one thought hard enough about how to do it. There has been a lot of "pushing the hardware" over the last decade. Lots of things that were thought of as "not possible" have been done now. The 99/4A community is very active, and there is a lot more going on than just new games (although that is also a big part of the activity).

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