Re: A82: Re: not to be mean, but...
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Re: A82: Re: not to be mean, but...
At 10:21 AM 7/30/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Yes, Ash is defiently a better shell. It was *very* well thought out
>and programmed. Oshell is good but using the letter Q is very risky.
>At least with Ash you don't have to worry about screwing up your calc
>with a change of a variable ;-)
>
Actually, Ash uses the same method OShell-82 uses (the only method known so
far) to start an assembly language shell. It's just that Ash uses a
different variable in the format of 6th and 7th matrices which look like
lists. You'll see in your DELETE menu L1 and L2, and one of them appears
to take up about 9K. If you delete either one of them, your calculator
will screw up either immediately or the next time you run Ash, depending on
which one you delete. I still prefer Q, because 1) it's only one variable,
2) it doesn't look inflated in the DELETE menu (always 15 bytes), and 3)
it's not used by very many BASIC programs (the ones which do use it can be
easily modified to use something else). Also, I made OShell-82 to hold
true to the normal TI-82 operation. That is, [2nd] [QUIT] will exit, not
[MODE]. To see your next screen of programs, you press the right arrow,
not the delete key. OShell-82 supports contrast changing and has a
built-in power down feature. And... as of yesterday, OShell-82 has
MarioMan ;) hehe...
Well, that's it for my little advertisement. Just a few things to think
about.
Jason Todd
Alphasoft
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