Re: A82: Same Game Suggestions (a.k.a. SGS)


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Re: A82: Same Game Suggestions (a.k.a. SGS)



oh well  wish full thinking =)

On Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:21:42 +0200 (METDST) Dines Christy Justesen
<c958362@student.dtu.dk> writes:
>Unfortunatly it is not possible to make asm programs using your idea. 
>The
>reason for this is very simpel, not all values are used by TI. This 
>makes
>it impossible to make some values (for exampel 00), and therefore it 
>is
>not possibleto make an asm program. (00 is used in the header of ash
>programs). It ahould be possible to make an assembler on the ti82, i 
>have
>seen a z80 asmsembler taking up app 4k. However i do not think it is a
>good idea to make one anyway.
>
>Dines
>
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>On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Matt Maurano wrote:
>
>> You can use the ti program editor to make an assembly program,. I 
>think.
>> However, it is not feasible for this reason: if you make 1 mistake, 
>your calc
>> will crash, and you will need a new backup of ash. Have fun doing 
>this
>> without a graphlink.
>> 
>> But, if you want to, here is how it should work:
>> 
>> 1) Find out what special id bytes need to be in an ash program.
>> 2) Find out the TI tokenizing system. Yopu will need a conversion 
>table. For
>> example, 00110011 may be displayed as ZStandard inside the program 
>editor.
>> 3) Get a list of the binary form of each instruction.
>> 4) Type in your program, adding the ash header, and then each 
>instruction as
>> it should be (Convert the mnemonic to the binary to the tokenized 
>form).
>> 
>> An assembly compiler basically substitutes the binary form of the 
>instruction
>> for the mnemonic, and deals with labels, macros, includes, addresses 
>etc.
>> 82prog adds the ash header info, and makes it into a .82p file.
>> 
>> Sure, you could write a compiler for ash, but it would be a poor 
>idea (see
>> above)
>> 
>> Bennie R Copeland wrote:
>> 
>> > ok thanx =) that will help when I learn to program =) oh is it 
>feasible
>> > to make a program to where you can write the assembly code right 
>there on
>> > the calc? that is if you had enough mem for it
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>


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