Re: A83: a funky bug ...

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Subject: Re: A83: a funky bug ...
From: "James Vernon" <jimbob_v@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:52:03 EST
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:49:52 PDT, the homonerdicus wrote:

>Hallo
>
>thanks for all the help on the ix offsets.
>
>This is the strangest thing I have ever seen....
>
>I have an ASM prog that uses >clear< as an exit key...
>
>So when I press >clear< the prog exits to the home screen but it is kind of
>frozen .... no key works except >on< which then put's it to a new mode 
>where
>the cursor instead of the full box (ACSI 224) is the no space character 
>(fig
>1) (ACSI 241) ...
>
>XOXOX
>OXOXO
>XOXOX          x=full
>OXOXO         o=empty
>XOXOX
>OXOXO
>
>
>You can't type anything but the menu's work. When I chooze something from
>the menu it says "memory full"....
>So I delete something and then it goes back to the normal mode ... But
>crashes if I run a program..
>
>Has anybody seen anything like this ?
>My theory is that it screws with some part of the OS which may be useful if
>we want to change something in it... of cource if we can control the 
>bug....
>
>What might be causing it ?
>I'm not using anything special in the prog only
>op1, ix, iy, some romcalls .... nothing unusual
>
>comments sugjestions ....
>
>homonerdicus

  Perhaps you could send the source as an attachment to the mailing list so 
everyone could have a bit of a geezer.. this sounds interesting.

James Vernon
jimbob_v@hotmail.com


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