Re: A83: Unsquish
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Re: A83: Unsquish
Unless I'm going bannans for a third time, I think that there's a routine in
83/asm/misc or ticalc that converts bin -> hex for display...this could of
course be easily modified to convert it for storing, then then store it...
-Dan
><sigh> No graphlink? Damn...the "unsquish" task would be _so_ easy if you
did.
>(I mean, Microsloth's Visual Basic could do it!)
>
>Well, you could make a program that used LDIR in some _very_ creative
>ways...for example, create a byte equivlaency chart (e.g. byte C9 = ASCII
>characters "C" and "9"...anybody care to help me optimize this?), and then
>loop through the program to be unsquished, reading in the bytes, and then
>writing to a seperate program that contained the unsquished ASCII
characters.
>Obviously I won't be the one making this--unless somebody is willing to
help
>:-)
>
>This program would require maybe about 1.5K-2.5K of memory (if you're
lucky),
>not to mention the space you would need to hold the unsquished program
(let's
>say you're unsquishing Diamonds 1.9...you would need, I would estimate,
4500+
>bytes of free RAM to hold the unsquished version.)
>
>But I repeat Dan's sentiments...
>Why would somebody want to unsquish a program?
>
>
>--David
>