[A83] Re: Mario for ashell
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[A83] Re: Mario for ashell
It should be.
Michael Vincent
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From: "Dan Weiss" <dwedit@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:18 PM
Subject: [A83] Re: Mario for ashell
>
> ionFastCopy is STILL too fast on the later TI83's even the latest version.
>
> Anyway, would it be possible to slow down the fastcopy routine by
> disassembling it and replacing one pair of canceling instructions with a
> slower pair? (ie replace 'inc hl \ dec hl' with 'push hl \ pop hl'?)
>
>
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> > > Van: Gerald Wong <geraldsplanet@yahoo.com>
> > >
> > > I'm talking about the old Mario, not the Ion one.
> > > It works on TI-83 ROM version 1.07000 but not 1.10000,
> > > not just my calc, but on other people's as well.
> > > It's strange that it works on Virtual TI with the same
> > > ROM version - the one I ROM dumped.
> > > The graphics are stuffed up on v1.100000 and higher.
> > >
> > > There's a v1.100001. Does anyone know the difference?
> > >
> > > Penguin's graphics are stuffed up for v1.10001 as
> > > well. I'm not sure which version of penguin though.
> > >
> > > With Mario the graphics are like ghosts, or sort of a
> > > double image with the ghost screen 8 pixels off.
> > > Penguin just has interference-type graphics. I heard
> > > that an old version of ion had ionfastcopy being too
> > > fast.
> >
> ><Impressive_Voice>
> >In a time long ago, (in a galaxy far far away..) in the ages from before
we
> >used Ion, people had to put in a Fastcopy routine inside their programs
> >code. When Ion came, the Fastcopy routine was put into the Ion-library.
> >Then the ROM version 1.10 came out, and the Fastcopy seemed to work to
fast
> >in this new calculator version. So Joe Wingbermuehle (in his infinite
> >wisdom) slowed the routine down a bit. So now, all programs that use the
> >Ion-lib, work as well on the v1.10 ROM as the older ones.
> ></Impressive_Voice>
> >
> >Mario doesn't use the Ion-lib (since it's an ashell-program..), so it
> >*could* be that it uses the older version of Fastcopy (and it does)...
One
> >way to overcome this is to run it with "nearly-dead" batteries, around
> >contrast 6 the blurring stops.
> >
> > Henk Poley
> >
> >
> >
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