A82: Program Idea

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Subject: A82: Program Idea
From: "Kevin Kibbe" <a_s_d_f@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:55:07 PST
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    Awhile back, I was browsing throught the TI-85 assembly archive and 
came across a program that supposedly allowsed you to reset your 
calculator and then unreset it.  If I recall correctly the only 
requirement (other than an assembly shell) was that you must have 
approximately half of your memory free.  I was wondering if someone 
might be willing to at least consider porting it.

    I realize that some of the people on the list might consider this a 
little excessive, but it does have some big advantages.  One of the 
major differences between it and programs like MemClear is that it allow 
you to actually "reset" your calc.  I was thinking that the program 
might be even more believable if it used CRash's inter handlers, so that 
it could be used while running the calculator in "normal" mode, instead 
of running it from the assembly shell.

    I believe that this program would be beneficial to the TI-82 
community because most, if not all of us, use our calcs on exams in 
school.  And, a large portion of our teachers and professors like to 
reset our calcs before tests, so we don't cheat (Ha! Like we would ever 
do such a thing. NOT!)  Anyways, this program would allow us to run the 
program ahead of time, so that when the teacher goes to reset the calc,  
we don't have to fumble around trying to run the program really quick 
before they get a hold of it.  Then the teacher would procede as usual 
and finish resetting the calc.  Then once you get it back, you do 
somthing to unreset it (perhaps something like a multiple key press).  I 
don't have an 85 some I don't know exactly how it works, byt mabey some 
with an 85 could check it out.

    Please don't disregard this my ideas, not that I'm accusing the list 
of doing so.  It's just that I realize that I'm not nearly as involved 
in the list as much as some of you other guys, and there my ideas might 
not stand out as much as the more frequent an widely respected posters 
on the list.

Thanks,
Kevin

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