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I was wondering if someone could make a z80 interpreter(83+) for DEVELOPMENT purposes so it will tell you if something would crash your cac if you entered it wrong

You could use VTI.

no i would want like an error menu like this

error:invalid instruction
>goto error
ignore and continue
quit

how come it deleetes th spaces on the left of text with no text before(example:" blah,blah,blah") as this is NOT a trailing space[there waso nly one space]

Urgh... I suppose my post in the most recent news item was off topic, but I do have a TI-83 Plus Assembly question! (not a program idea)...

How can you measure a certain number of seconds or milliseconds in a program, thus creating a kind of timer?

Thanks for your help!

Heh, one more question...

Can anyone tell me where I should go to learn about using keyhooks (in TI-83+ Assembly) ?

Thanks!

Use an electronic timer along with trig functions. Loop the program so that its execution time will be measurable and make a clock based on dividing the total time by the number of loops. Then see how far off it is by making a clock using that and letting it execute for a few hours or days. You'll eat batteries, but the result will be a fairly accurate clock.

I did this for a science project once.

Does anyone know how to archive desktop settings? The ID databases are maintained but not the rest-I keep it all very organized for ~2 days, then it crashes, which drives me up the wall and I was wondering whether AMS 2.07++ has been around long enough for people to figure out the addresses for the desktop settings.

Would it be easier just to code my own desktop and use autorun() to bypass TIOS entirely?

Does there exist a program for TI-89 that allows typing from calc directly to PC using the USB cable? If not, I recommend someone to try to make this. Can the USB cable be detected at bootup of the PC, so you can type in the PC BIOS?

There is a keyboard sold by TI for the 89...

To my knowledge this has not been done. But why would you want it?

In order to use such a thing, you'd need a PC and TI-calc program each to communicate with each other. This could be done, but would not have the kind of yield to merit the work.

And this method wouldn't work with PC BIOS. First of all, you need a motherboard that supports using USB keyboards at boot time. Second, you would have to make an adapter of some kind because the signals sent through the SilverLink would not be the ones you want. Third, you'd need to make a TI-calc program to send the right signals when you press the right keys.

Too much work. Just buy a keyboard. ;)

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Sombody should rewrite the operating system and make it into a unix-like system. They'd have to be really careful though, because they have to put working link cable drivers in the very first version because there's no other way to get a new operating system on them that i know of.

Firstly, ViralX and my group are working on parts of an OS.

Second, in TI-Connect 1.3, there is a "Dumb OS [:)=TIOS] Transfer" in which there need be no OS on the system.

I am starting a new Progect called windows server 2003, and i need some ideas on what to put in it!
Any one got any!
When i am finished with this in basic and made everything perfet i will turn it to asm, and then maybe a app like mirageOs! SO i need to get ideas!
Thanks in advance

P.s I have a website and if you would like to be a beta tester or want to become a member jsut emial me at Jackson14715@epals.com

Server? Really, acually, *server*?

YES actually a server!

Define 'server'.

how does it work?(the dumbos thingy)
is there actually real rom on the calc, stuff that cant change?

There's a key combo to do that, found in Appendix D of the AMS manual.

Actually, what was said about needing perfect drivers in the first release is completely true if you wanted to be able to upgrade the OS. There is a way around this, though.

SITUATION 1: You have a calc with TIOS and TIB reciever. You then send the new OS. The OS has an option (password protected, of course) to startup the boot code (same one as in the TIOS, so there's no conflicts). You then send TIOS again with TIB reciever and send the new, better OS.

SITUATION 2: You have a calc with TIOS and TIB reciever. You then send the new OS. The OS has perfectly working TIOS link protocol drivers and can accept keycoded and non-keycoded OSes. Now when you need to upgrade or switch OSes, just send the new one.

Either way you go, making sure you preserve the TIOS boot code is an essential factor.

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that's dumb, what we really need is MEMORY! (Not FLASH, but RAM)

OK...

AMS calc connected to SilverLink connected to female A to female A adapter connected to USB memory (with a driver on the calc to archive/unarchive and get/send.

Check the link to find USB memory.

Sorry about the last link. This one works.

JHCIACB!!!

This works. Apparently it doesn't like http://.

no, it just doesn't like https://...http:// is fine...

Just delete the first http://.