This looks neat. Tooo bad I no longer have an 86. I am stuck with my crappy 89. j/k

-W-

I was scared for a moment, then I saw the j/k.

This sounds cool. Any news of a port to other calcs, esp. 68k? (unlikely)

Wow! This is neat... so, is this going to be like C is to the TI-89? Will it push away the ASM language for the TI-86?

I doubt it will be ported... stuff rarely is :(

That would be nice if you could program in C for the 86 & 83+ & v400 (j/k)

Dude, you don't need to program the V400... it's so advanced that it reads your mind.

So, that's how it knew about my imaginary girlfriend...

Well, if it can read my mind then it'll know that I am VERY close to having enough money to buy it.

Well, how much do they cost, then?

V200's range between $160 (US) and $210

lol that's funny!

That's what this allows you to do! I've looked over the language reference, and it's pretty C-like.

The basic usage of it is similar to C (it doesn't look too difficult to learn), but it's not as expressive as C, and it has several problems in the way it does things, such as with passing arguments to functions.

C pushes arguments onto the processor's stack, making functions re-entrant (unless the programmer does something nonre-entrant). TIPower passes arguments through static variables, which means that functions calling another function (or itself, e.g., recursion) that uses the same variable(s) won't necessarily work as expected.

Just my 2 cents.

It says object oriented. Does that mean it's a bit like Visual Basic?

Ooh! Like C++! OOP!

no, C++ is too inefficient for even the 68K calcs.

I guess you're right...

This is neat. And by the way, I port most of my programs, can't help if anyone is lazy at that

You don't know all of those programming languages, do you?

Check his bio.
All will be revealed!

I don't think that there would be any reason for a port to the 68k's. There is already the C programming language for them.

Also, this was made to translate into z80 ASM. the M68k processor uses a completle different language. The only reason that this would be ported to the 83(+), is because they both have the z80, so the it would be easy to say compile for the 83(+).

-W-

Well, i can see that my rush to post was unneeded. Can this be made to work with the 83(+)? Seeing that they are both z80's, could this work?

Hopefully this is easier than ASM.

-W-

That's probably why it was made- so people wouldn't have to program in ASM, of course, z80 is a nice language... (it's just frustrating when it doesn't work)

*falls to knees and starts cries of joy and anguish*
All of that time of learning assembly to the point of UNDERSTANDING it but falling short of completion due to the inability to figure out how to apply it to a system. Gaaa!!! I know what everything does but i vaguely know why it works. Sigh... time to see if this really works and if it does then there went my entire summer.

Poor you...

I guess C for a z80 calc would be nice... z80 is hard, after all, but I think I'd almost rather program in z80 than in C. Maybe it's because I'm used to z80... but oh well, none of this applies to my lovely TI-82, so it doesn't matter... I'll have to keep working on z80 :)

>>I think I'd almost rather program in z80 than in C

Yes, if anyone knew both, for sure use z80. It's faster, cleaner, and better. This program is for people who don't know z80.

>>none of this applies to my lovely TI-82

Yes, it does. If people can make this program work with the 83 (+(SE)) then it'll be only one step farther to port it to the 82.

I write and prefer Z80 assembly myself, but TIpower isn't such a high-level language that it makes inefficient code. I've read the language reference, and it's more of a calculator-oriented C.

I know some asm for the 86, if you want some help go ahead and ask.

It says in the readme that he's going to make it work with the 83(+) and the 85. Maybe we could make more ZShell progs once it does. ;-)