RE: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5

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RE: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5

Hey, why don't we just make ZShell 4.5 fill up all 32k and make all the games 
run at 1/10 the speed under ZShell 4.0? Don't forget size and speed 
constraints.
--MZB


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From: 	owner-list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org on behalf of greg
Sent: 	Friday, August 30, 1996 2:26 PM
To: 	list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: 	Re: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5


Well hey, Zshell 4.5 could just include a whole little control panel. Could
have auto shut off options, startup options, font, turbo or unturbo calc
option, all sorts of stuff... -greg


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> From: Peter Cordes <pcomp@ntsource.com>
> To: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: LZ: Startup and ZS4.5
> Date: Thursday, August 29, 1996 10:06 PM
> 
> Min Idzelis wrote:
> > 
> > Can i recommend something to the Zshell 4.5 authors... this stuff may
> > be unnessessary, but it would be useful...
> > 
> > on [CUSTOM] [F1] a password prompt would appear. This way, a teacher
> > couldn't see what is in Zshell if s/he found out how to access it
> > 
> > each program could have a password. I don't know if this would be
> > useful, but sometimes you only want certain things to be private.
> > 
> > auto-power off in Zshell, and in programs... if auto-off occurs in
> > while running a program, on [ON] it would automatically resume... I
> > have a fairly vague idea on how to impliment this. Make Zshell aware
> > of every time a key is pressed during a program (i don't know how to
> > do this, maybe a rom call????) If Zshell detects that more than 5 min
> > passed w/o pressing a key, it would turn off
> > 
> > All of this could have toggles... like, sometimes, auto-resume might
> > not be a good idea (teacher takes calc... calc turns off... teacher
> > turns on, and still has evidence)
> > 
> > Can you hide strings from the [MEM] command??? So it's still in the
> > calc, but not visible??? Maybe store all the program strings inside a
> > big ZSHELL variable????
> > 
> 
> if the first character of a VAT entry is changed for a zshell string the
> program can still be run under zshell but will be invisible to the
> calculators functions. i know this is true because i wrote bad code
> before :( and it messed with the vat entries so that some of them had _
> or other symbols that are not allowed in varible names and the files
> were invisible to the MEM DELETE SRTING menu. after i get some time i
> will work on a program to do this.
> PCoMP
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