[A83] Re: squish-like inc for other calculators

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: squish-like inc for other calculators
From: "SUCKER from the old days" <sucker_pvn@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:19:49 +0000
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org


>On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, SUCKER from the old days wrote:
>
> >
> > At first TI gave us only ti83asm.inc and tokens.inc,
> > but later Pat Milheron (lead programmer of the 83)
> > gave the assembly community squish.inc. With the
> > other Ti calculators, did ti give immediately much
> > more romcalls to work with??
>
>No, they didn't.
>
>For the TI-85 (the first calculator users programmed in assembly) as well
>as the TI-82 and TI-92, absolutely no information was ever given.  But
>this wasn't a huge problem for the community once the method to start a
>program running was figured out.
>
>For the others, even though I was in the so-called "community" at the time
>I don't really remember the details.  For the TI-86, I believe what was
>initially given was an include file (ti86asm.inc) that only had the
>fundamental functions (like displaying a string) and some basic RAM
>equates, and it did not document how the functions worked.  Later on, they
>released a few more includes with functions to help with accessing its
>memory arrangement, math functions, etc. along with limited documentation.
>
>For the TI-89, I think the sitatuion was about the same, with only a list
>of equates (and the calling method) released at first, with real
>documentation only released once everyone had already figured it out
>themselves.
>
>Of course in both of these situations users had the benefit of the
>information already existing (for TI-85 and TI-92) that had of course been
>figured out without any input from TI.

Then we are the lucky bastards after all...


       SUCKER

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