Re: A86: Standards

To: 86 Assembly list <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: A86: Standards
From: Dan Eble <eble@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:59:43 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <01IM1W7C1AN2000F30@WIZARD.FIRN.EDU>
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, James Yopp wrote:

>                Another Standard:
> Specific flags must be used for specific purposes, like determining OS 
> Type for programs running under a Shell. (I.E. shells might use IY+$23 to 
> store a version number, with the upper four bits defining the shell 

Yeah, but why is that useful?  Who cares what shell is running?


> itself, and the lower four defining a version.) Anybody got a token map 
> for the 86 yet?
> 

It's the same as the 85 except that the PrtScrn function ($8E) is taken
out, and the following put in:

8E00 PxOn
8E01 PxOff
8E02 PxChg
8E03 Get
8E04 Send
8E05 SinR
8E06 LgstR
8E07 TwoVar
8E08 GrStl
8E09 DrEqu
8E0A LCust
8E0B Form
8E0C Select
8E0D PlOn
8E0E PlOff
8E0F ClrEnt
8E10 StReg
8E11 IAsk
8E12 IAuto
8E13 Text
8E14 Horiz
8E15 DispT
8E16 ClTbl
8E17 Delvar
8E18 Box
8E19 MBox
8E1A ClrLsts
8E1B FldOff
8E1C DirFld
8E1D SlpFld
8E1E SetLEdit
8E1F Plot1
8E20 Plot2
8E21 Plot3
8E22 RK
8E23 Euler
8E24 ZData
8E25 Asm
8E26 AsmComp
8E27 AsmPrgm (ASCII)    (useful as first two bytes in program)
8E28 AsmPrgm (binary)   (useful as first two bytes in program)
8E29 (edit lock)        (useful as first two bytes in program)
8E2A PxTest
8E2B randInt
8E2C randBin
8E2D randNorm
8E2E median (undocumented function) (doesn't do anything)
8E2F cSum   (causes various errors)
8E30 cSum   (the *real* cSum)
8E31 Deltalst
8E32 (causes ERROR 14 UNDEFINED when run, ERROR 15 MEMORY when recalled)
8E33 PrtScrn (causes ERROR 14 UNDEFINED)


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Dan Eble (mailto:eble@cis.ohio-state.edu)
         (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~eble)

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Re: A86: Standards

From: James Yopp <jyopp@pobox.com>