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I had a similar setup eventually with Wycove Forth -- can't remember even the existence of TI Forth. Anyway playing with that was my foot in the door to a summer job at FORTH, Inc. as a teen.

Lost all of that code because my 99 system got stolen a few years later.

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Oh man!

I still booted my system up occasionally when I had it to remind myself that you didn't have to write HUGE programs to do stuff.

Now, I want to write a text adventure game again. Where are my Turbo Pascal disks?

Didn't TI-Forth have a mode where it would use a 3x7 font so you could get 64 characters per line? I still have nightmares. But... you have to appreciate the work that went into it.

Really if I ever knew it existed, I've forgotten. But https://oratronik.de/atariage/TI_FORTH_Manual-2ndEd(LES).pdf says yes on page 14. General discussion at https://99er.net/tifaq2.html#TIFAQ011

(I used Wycove Forth in 40-column mode, though I have a dim memory of trying something like your 3x7 font...)

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