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Though at least part of the slowness was TI's decision to write BASIC in GPL (an interpreted middle-level language, for those unfamiliar) instead of directly in
by classichasclass 2y ago
Though at least part of the slowness was TI's decision to write BASIC in GPL (an interpreted middle-level language, for those unfamiliar) instead of directly in 9900 assembly, which made it even worse.
- bitwize 2y agoAnd another part was due to the fact that the CPU couldn't access video memory during scanout -- it went into a wait state -- so your program only actually ran during hblank and vblank!
- shakna 2y agoGraphic Programming Language [0] for the curious. FMT Enter sub-interpreter HTEX 'Hello, world' Displays horizontal text FEND Exits sub-interpreter [0] http://unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/gpl.htm http://unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/gpl.htm