Re: A82: CrASH Hacked!!!!

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Subject: Re: A82: CrASH Hacked!!!!
From: "Ahmed El-Helw" <ahmedre@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:11:15 -0400
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I agree with Adam - its all well and good that you hacked Crash, but keep it
for yourself on your hdrive, but don't throw give their [the Crash Teams]
hard work away for free..  Its just not fair, not to mention that 2 shells
are enough..
                                                                            
    -Ahmed

-----Original Message-----
From: ADAMMAN106@aol.com <ADAMMAN106@aol.com>
To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, June 06, 1998 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: A82: CrASH Hacked!!!!


>
>In a message dated 98-06-06 00:20:55 EDT, you write:
>
>> I wouldn't know this because I'm not a beta tester.  Making a shell takes
a
>>  lot of effort and knowledge of the 82 backup file.  I took the
initiative
>>  to take a shell apart to see what it looks like.  Once I've got the code
>>  commented, and I figure out how to create pointers in the VAT and put
those
>>  pointers/variables into TI-BASIC code, I'll be able to write MY OWN
shell
>>  from scratch (which will be based solely on a game engine...so the
current
>>  code won't be any good except for the VAT entries and TI-BASIC code to
>>  enter the shell).  Besides, Kouri and Evil Sam and anyone else, you want
to
>>  write your own shell too...why not start with a base and work up from
>>  there?  Beginner shell writers have no idea where to start or how to
code
>>  one, so they need some type of example.  I need the routines anyway for
>>  OShell-82 and OS-82 to make ASH/CrASH code easy to port to those shells.
>
>seriously, we don't need a situation similar or identical to the 85's
>overpopulation of shells.  Two competitive shells is fine.
>
>~Adamman
>