³ MP> As an aside, I never really tried it, but I wondered back then if one
³ MP> could take a program written in TI-BASIC and port it over to run
³ MP> under BASIC on a PC. Some of the ones I typed in used sprites and
³
³ You probably could, we messed around with some and Applesoft. But things can ³ get out of hand pretty quickly, unless they're only using common BASIC
³ commands/functions. Otherwise you end up having to figure out what it does, ³ and then how you're going to do it, on whatever version you're working in.
³ Sometimes it becomes easier to use the original as a template and rewrite for ³ the new version of BASIC.
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Back then, as a young teenager, things like that would not have occurred to
me. I would have figured "it just doesn't work." Having worked in IT for
30 or so years now, I can confirm that last sentence is correct. Sometimes
it is just better to rewrite something.

Mike

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³ MP> As an aside, I never really tried it, but I wondered back then if one
³ MP> could take a program written in TI-BASIC and port it over to run under
³ MP> BASIC on a PC. Some of the ones I typed in used sprites and some other
³ MP> things I suspect were unique to TI-BASIC and/or Extended BASIC that
³ MP> might not have a direct function to translate to.
³
³ There was a reference back in the day that mapped the various versions.
³
³ I think it listed some 150+ majopr varieties.
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That probably would have been something that young teenage me would have
spent many hours lost in. ;)

³ It was annoying when subsequent releases depreciated some function or feature ³ that your programs depended upon.
³
³ Downside of an interpreted enviornment, compared to a compiled environment
³ where once compiled there was less issues, that is until something machine
³ level was changed....
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Ran into that in a COBOL shop. Everything was just fine until you had to
make changes to a program that hadn't been recompiled in years. ;)

Mike

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