Re: A85: RAM FAIL

To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A85: RAM FAIL
From: 82nd Deer <eviljim@megsinet.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 17:43:17 -0500
In-Reply-To: <3419afdf.138630366@mail.anet-dfw.com>
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Reply-To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org

Actually, it can be a problem if you have ROM 8.0, unless you send
PATCHROM.85S to your calculator before running Usgard.  The one in the
backups is not the one you need.

At 09:12 PM 9/12/97 GMT, you wrote:
>Certainly it was programmer error; no fault of the shell at all.  But
>does anyone have a reason as to what may cause this event to occur
>(how to specifically get to this error message)?
>
>-mike
>
>On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:49:52 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
>
>>yeah, I got that a week ago for the first time. hehehe. I was also using
>>Usgard but in defence of this new lovely shell, other people have
>>experienced this WAY BEFORE Usgard was ever dreamed up. Also, on my calc
>>the RAM FAIL message sat there for a sec or two, then the calc reset
>>itself. How nice. See even TI built a calc. better then a mac. When a mac
>>crashes you have to click "ok" to restart, same in Win95, but TI obviously
>>made a much wiser system =) Hehe. anyway, any non-buggy program will not
>>have this RAM FAIL problem in Usgard, ZShell, etc. This message only
>>occurs when something REALLY wrong occurs in the asm program. There are,
>>as any ASM programmer knows, MANY reasons as to why exactly this occured.
>>
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References:

Re: A85: RAM FAIL

From: Will Stokes <wstokes@vertex.ucls.uchicago.edu>

Re: A85: RAM FAIL

From: mikep@anet-dfw.com (Michael Pearce)