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by exDM69 3701 days ago
> pretty much the only thing it lacks is pointers, but it's a very capable...

You can PEEK and POKE arbitrary memory addresses and use CALL ABSOLUTE to call assembly shell code at any address.

I remember typing out a mouse driver shell code in hexadecimal from a magazine. QBasic does not have built in mouse routines and the young me was baffled when you could make that happen with a long string of digits.