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Do you think Boris can still be reached under pickledcherry668@yahoo.com ?
The Basic was SO BAD that I had to learn Z80 assembly to make anything good. Really. No sane Basic should leak stack memory just because you exited an "If-Then" block without reaching the corresponding "End". Yes that's a thing. If you use "If-Then" and the code never reaches the "End" because you used "Goto" to leave the block, a few bytes are leaked every time that happens, and eventually the program stops with "ER…
It's funny how many software developers got into it due to being bored in class with a TI-83 and randomly trying to create programs.
That’s me with a TI-85 in 7th grade in ‘95 or so. It was effectively a portable computer that I was allowed to use and play with in most classes. Started with TI-BASIC, then discovered ticalc.org and the shell and assembly programming hacks, games, and home brew transfer cables. It effectively started my electrical engineering and computer science career. I know I’m not alone.
Good times, indeed.
The Basic was SO BAD that I had to learn Z80 assembly to make anything good. Really. No sane Basic should leak stack memory just because you exited an "If-Then" block without reaching the corresponding "End". Yes that's a thing. If you use "If-Then" and the code never reaches the "End" because you used "Goto" to leave the block, a few bytes are leaked every time that happens, and eventually the program stops with "ER…
For me the bad part is that the official TI-83 manual has a code example for the GETKEY function that is using GOTO to jump out of a loop.
It's funny how many software developers got into it due to being bored in class with a TI-83 and randomly trying to create programs.
That’s me with a TI-85 in 7th grade in ‘95 or so. It was effectively a portable computer that I was allowed to use and play with in most classes. Started with TI-BASIC, then discovered ticalc.org and the shell and assembly programming hacks, games, and home brew transfer cables. It effectively started my electrical engineering and computer science career. I know I’m not alone.
The Basic was SO BAD that I had to learn Z80 assembly to make anything good. Really. No sane Basic should leak stack memory just because you exited an "If-Then" block without reaching the corresponding "End". Yes that's a thing. If you use "If-Then" and the code never reaches the "End" because you used "Goto" to leave the block, a few bytes are leaked every time that happens, and eventually the program stops with "ER…
But isn't that just how the world works? As kid I got ERR:MEMORY allot while trying to create games. It was until I started to read a C book which said "We will not use goto in this book. It is a dangerous function that can lead to memory leaks. For example if you jump out of a function, said function will stay in memory because it never finishes." That was the light bulb moment for my TI-Basic problems. For me the b…
In normal programming languages, If-Then-Else is made up of a conditional branch to get you into either the "If" part or the "else" part, and a jump to skip you past the "else" part to the "end if" part. There is no stack used for that.
We could have a quadratic equation solver on tests, but not the other functions. I put a splash screen that said my name and "Quadratic Equation Solver" which prompted a, b, and c if you pressed ENTER. If you pressed the right button on that splash screen (sin, naturally) it would unlock the full menu.