Re: A85: 86 emulation on 85

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Subject: Re: A85: 86 emulation on 85
From: TGaArdvark@aol.com
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:05:55 EDT
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> Actually, that shouldn't be much of a problem.  90% (or more)
> of what's out there doesn't use paging at all.  Even the interrupts
> and var routines could be emulated pretty well using Usgard.
> All the 86 ports of Usgard programs I've done went _very_
> smoothly (mostly just new .equ's and changed the & calls to
> standard ones), and I've succesfully ported _everything_ I've
> written for the 86 to Usgard (I haven't posted any because they're
> pretty useless).  Maybe someone should try.  The hardest part
> would be interpreting the in-program calls, which are fixed for
> $D748 rather than relocatable.

Well, the ROM calls that the TI-85 lacks would also be a little
hard to overcome.

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