[13of40]

It was my family's first computer and the one I wrote my first programs on. Three things that stuck in my craw about it were:

1. BASIC supported PEEK but there was no POKE.

2. You could save files to a disk but you had to remember the file names because there was no way to list them.

3. Lower case letters were just small versions of uppercase.

For the last one, a year or so ago I actually found a dump of the Apple IIe font and hacked an emulated TI-99 to use it, and it worked and looked great, so I have no idea what they were thinking.

Anyway, it's awesome to see them be able to squeeze so much out of it in this demo.

[nsxwolf]

If you plugged in the Mini Memory cartridge, it added a POKE command to TI BASIC.

There was a common cartridge, "Disk Manager 2", which gave you common DOS-like disk management utilities.

The lowercase font really was absurd. A few programs redefined them with much more pleasant fonts. The "Adventure" module for running the Scott Adams text adventures comes to mind.

[ams6110]

The Editor/Assembler program gave you a better font as well as 40 colummns instead of the normal 32.

[nsxwolf]

That text mode is a lot nicer, but you give up sprite support to use it.