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No idea if this is true, but the meme was that you could only write BASIC for the TI99, assembly was forbidden somehow. For the most part, hackers avoided this
by flomo 9y ago
No idea if this is true, but the meme was that you could only write BASIC for the TI99, assembly was forbidden somehow. For the most part, hackers avoided this system like the plague, despite all the advertisements starring Bill Cosby.
- pmiller2 9y ago100% not true. There was an editor/assembler cartridge that let you program in ASM.
- T-hawk 9y agoIt had very little adoption and mindshare, though. All the assembly hackers were on the C-64, Apple II, and a bit later the PC.
- nsxwolf 9y agoYour other option was the Mini Memory cartridge, which added a scaled down version of Editor/Assembler as well as 8K of RAM and a battery backup. It was an economical way to dabble in assembly without springing for the 32K RAM expansion and disk system.