Re: A85: Have you noticed...

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Subject: Re: A85: Have you noticed...
From: Jimmy =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rdell?= <yarin@acc.umu.se>
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 00:43:13 +0200
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At 15:08 1998-05-24 EDT, you wrote:
>Can't someone make a shell like Usgard or ZShell?  It would make it a lot
>easier.  Is it true also that 83 and 86 asm programs take twice as much
>memory than 85 games because they're stored in ASCII hex?  (ie,
>%11111111, one byte, becomes "FF," two bytes)  Wouldn'tthis also slow it
>down, as each set of hex bytes becomes one byte of machine code?

Ah... on the 86, asm programs are only stored in ASCII if you type
them in on the calc. Then you can "compile" them, so they become
binary files. Of course, programs created on the computer already
are in binary form.

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Re: A85: Have you noticed...

From: Jimmy =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rdell?= <yarin@acc.umu.se>

Re: A85: Have you noticed...

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Re: A85: Have you noticed...

From: justin-b@juno.com (Justin M Bosch)