Re: A83: Re: Fresh News


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Re: A83: Re: Fresh News




David Phillips wrote:

> Sorry, this idea has already been done.  And if you are going to copy the
> rom, it would not run any faster.  You need to compile programs to use
> integer operations.  Then you might as well use a C compiler, which would
> make code huge.
>
> (You don't want to start this...been argued way to much on A86 :)
>
> > Are you as tired of the "New Company" string as I? Well here's something
> > new, a new string, a new idea. Here it is, the TI-BASIC compiler! My
> > idea is to go into the ROM of any calc you please, and find the internal
> > code for translating the BASIC to essentially ASM to be run. If you
> > could find this code and recreate it in either ASM or a comp. language,
> > you could assemble a BASIC program into ASM, really helping out those
> > BASIC writers out there. I know no one on this list will use it, but
> > it's till a good idea. I know nearly nothing about the ROM file, so I
> > myself can not do this. Is anyone interested?

I'll take your advice, but one thing first, does the calc convert as it reads,
or convert and then run?


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