Re: A82: VAT problems (help me)


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Re: A82: VAT problems (help me)




In a message dated 98-03-09 18:26:20 EST, you write:

> Ok, here is the story. I have ported Joe W.'s Breakout game to the 
>  TI-82. It works perfectly except for the EXTERNAL LEVEL selector 
>  routine. You know, searches the vat for stuff and loads the level, kind 
>  of like penguins. Well, I can't get it to work. After I play a game, 
>  then quit, the next button I press crashes the calc, your typical VAT 
>  crash. If you can help me fix it, then porting this and Diamonds v1.5 
>  will be a snap. Both of those games use the same external level routine. 
>  And I bet more games made by Joe will, so I would love to get this 
>  ported!
>  
>  Here is the code below, with comments:
>  
<snip code>  
>  
>  There is all the suff. All the variables you see are stored in TEXT_MEM 
>  (in case your wondering) Please, Crash_Man, Dines, Thomas, Adamman, Evil 
>  Same, anyone who has any knowledge of the VAT please tell me why this 
>  doesn't work. Thanks a lot. If you need more info please email me. I 
>  will release Breakout, even if I can never get this level selection to 
>  work, all the levels then will just have to be in the game.
>  ~Ilya

As far as I can see, your only problem is with the FAT thing.  Of course I
didn't really examine the code in-depth...

~Adamman