Re: A82: CrASH bug solved...

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A82: CrASH bug solved...
From: "Evil Sam" <evil_sam@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 08:37:54 PDT
Delivered-To: assembly-82-outgoing@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se
Reply-To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org


>you've stated that you've found the crash bug many times, sam.  perhaps
>this time you did, but all for naught.

  I really have this time. In order to make a program work for CrASH, 
you normally need to put set/res 1,(iy+13) at the beginning and end of 
the program so TEXT_MEM does get changed. I took that a step further and 
put set/res 2,(iy+13), and the problem was fixed. I guess in ASH all of 
this is done from within the shell before and after the program is run.


>  the crash team has discontinued
>their shell development, and there won't be any more versions of crash. 
>perhaps the source to crash should be passed on to someone else so 
Dines
>has competition and will finish his ash versions more quickly.

    That's too bad. Did I miss an announcement or something?


> besides... all you had to do
>is press CLEAR and then raise the contrast. if you pressed on, then it
>would crash.  the contrast dimmed, it never turned off, possibly 
because
>there was an unprintable character in the text memory.
>
>-Greg
>

 Not true. The bug also caused all availible memory to drop to zero, 
which can only be fixed by resetting the calc. If it was only a contrast 
issue, then I wouldn't care about whether or not the bug is fixed.
   Sam

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