[A83] Re: Aurora for 83+?

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Subject: [A83] Re: Aurora for 83+?
From: Ronald Teune <RTWolf@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:53:20 +0200 (MEST)
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> > Van: Peter-Martijn Kuipers <hyper@hysoft-automation.com>
> > 
> > Sounds interesting, but I don't quite get it. Can you explain it in more
> 
> > detail?
> 
> Let me first explain what Aurora did for BASIC programs, I haven't found a
> good explanation/docs of the Aurora assembly API:

"The Aurora API","api.txt", TiCalc.org

> When you loaded the coordinates in the corresponding REALs, and then did a
> "prgmZAPI" (which was basicaly a ""ZAURAGFX:send(9prgmZASMLOAD", I guess)

that's right

> it would plot some things, depending on what you had set in the real REAL
> V, it would use REAL A,B,C and D to plot/erase certain things, like
> (filled) squares.
> 
> This way of 'destroying valuable REALs' is a bit redundant I think/hope.
> You could also addapt some pointers to let the TIOS jump over the
> data-part
> needed by your assembly program.
> 
> The parsing of the input-data is a little bit of a problem, but maybe
> somebody already has found the call to let the TIOS parse the string for
> you till a comma or whatever, and put the result in OP1.

Maybe a list is useful.

> Yuo could also be a little confused about the "prgmBLAH" being assembly?
> Well, I've worked to much with Venus lately. Oh, to speak about Venus,
> does
> anybody know if the Ti83+ can execute BASIC programs in Flash from RAM?

No, it can't, and imho that's extremely stupid, because basic isn't
selfmodding

>  	Henk Poley <><

  Ronald

> > > When someone takes a better look at how the TIOS execute BASIC (there
> just
> > > needs to be some sort of 'bookmark' for the parser to know where it
> left)
> > > 
> > > A more Ti89 style of programming can then be done:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > prgmBLAH:(9,2,20,40)
> > > [..rest of BASIC prog..]
> > > 
> > > Would let BLAH read the numbers, parse it, updates the 'bookmark' (if
> you
> > > don't then the error message you can generate will point right to the
> > > faulty entry). And then do whatever it needs to do.
> > > 
> > > 	Henk Poley <><
> 
> 

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[A83] Re: Aurora for 83+?

From: "Henk Poley" <HPoley@DDS.nl>