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The State of the TI Community (1999)
Posted on 14 April 1999 The following text was written by Justin Karneges: Please excuse any bad writing and/or excessive commas. I'm a programmer, not an English major.
However, it was simple and fun to do and most importantly, it got me familiar enough with the basics of asm to move on to more difficult programming. By writing simple programs, rather games or not, you feel like you're accomplishing something and are learning in the process. People can't differentiate between these programs that you write to teach yourself something and a great game like Sqrxz or Vertigo.
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