As an aside, I never really tried it, but I wondered back then if one could take a program written in TI-BASIC and port it over to run
under BASIC on a PC. Some of the ones I typed in used sprites and
│All the "little computers" used basic when I started. The mainframes
ran cobol
│or fortran, but because the wee little computers and early PCs were so limited,
│that the Basic Interpreter was what you used.
└─[K=>M]
They often used a proprietary basic, too.
As an aside, I never really tried it, but I wondered back then if one could take a program written in TI-BASIC and port it over to run under BASIC on a PC. Some of the ones I typed in used sprites and some other things I suspect were unique to TI-BASIC and/or Extended BASIC that
might not have a direct function to translate to.
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