[A83] Re: just two simple questions


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[A83] Re: just two simple questions




At 01:38 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote:

>Is there really not one who can help me with these problems (both for the
>TI-83)?
>
>1. I know that with the romcall "_Formerealtok" or "_formreal" I can convert
>a floating point number to a string, but I haven't been able to find a
>romcall  or any other way to turn this operation around, so instaed of making
>a string out of a floating point number, I want to make a floating point
>number out of a string. Please help.

this could be written by hand.  Just find out the length of the string and 
go through it backwards.  multiply it by 10^position and add it to the 
total until you reach the end of the string.


>2. I am a frequent user of SOS and Ashell, because the programms I create are
>always rather large. But I recently came upon a program with its own loader
>that must have done the same as one of those shells, because the programm was
>too large for zasmload. I am really interrested in creating a loader like
>that myself. Please help.

if your program is this large, i would suggest you optimize and trim the 
fat.  Take out the title picture, and unneccesary additions to the program 
(graphics waste alot).  See if you can use temporary memory instead of your 
program.  Find code that is repeated often and consolidate it into a 
call.  use compression with maps/graphics/etc.  Unless you have already 
done all of this, you should never have to deal with using a loader.

-harper





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