Re: A82: CalcEm

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Subject: Re: A82: CalcEm
From: David Eriksson/2GooD Productions <david@2goodsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:32:50 +0200
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>Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:09:05 -0400
>From: "Ahmed El-Helw" <ahmedre@bellsouth.net>
>Subject: A82: CalcEm
>
>Hello,
>	I thought to write this to start up a discussion, everyone is pretty
>quiet.. anyways, I've noticed the following with CalcEm, and I hope if
>David, you are reading this, that you fix it, it is a great emulator.  I
>only found 3 things actually:
>
>- -> When you link to the 82/3, and have the program on your calculator, if
>you choose quit or omit, it crashes your CalcEm software.

This works in version 0.6

>- -> The Ti-83 has silent link, you should be able to send w/o going to the
>link menu.

Yes, but I haven't had time to find out the protocol differences.

>- -> The only programming problem I noticed: when using GET_KEY, and a routine
>like this, the keys don't respond:
>
> call GET_KEY
> cp $01
> jp z,Down			;It'll detect this..
> inc a
> jp z,Left			;It won't get this
> inc a
> jp z,Right			;Nor this
> inc a
> jp z,Up			;Nor this..

I see no reason why this should work... you'd probably want to write like this instead (assuming [down, left, right, up] is [1 to 4]:

 call GET_KEY
 dec a
 jp z,Down
 dec a
 jp z,Left
 dec a
 jp z,Right
 dec a
 jp z,Up


Sincerely,
                       -/- David Eriksson -/-

CalcEm - The Calculator Emulator  ->  http://www.2goodsoft.com/calcem/

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