Re: A86: YOU CAN NOT PROGRAM ASSEMBLY DIRECTLY ON THE 86!!!!
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Re: A86: YOU CAN NOT PROGRAM ASSEMBLY DIRECTLY ON THE 86!!!!
what you typed in on the calc was not ASM. it was a hex representation of
the machine code.
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> From: ariwsi@juno.com
> To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: A86: YOU CAN NOT PROGRAM ASSEMBLY DIRECTLY ON THE 86!!!!
> Date: Monday, August 25, 1997 8:26 PM
>
> On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 20:02:55 -0400 (EDT) rwk@peganet.com writes:
>
> >I am tired of everyone asking "how do you type the asm in on the
> >calc"...YOU CAN'T. You have to type it in on the computer, compile
> >it, and then copy it to the calc via a link. Unless someone writes
> >a compiler that runs on the calc you can't do it.
>
> Wrong! I don't even own a TI-86 of my own, but I managed to type an
> ASM program on a TI-86 calculator that I borrowed while at school.
>
> Just type in this as program "REVERSE"
>
> :AsmPrgm
> :0600
> :2100FC
> :7E
> :2F
> :77
> :23
> :10FA
> :010000
> :0B
> :78
> :B1
> :000000000000
> :0000000000
> :20F0
> :C9
>
> And then type on the home screen
>
> ASM(REVERSE)
>
> And there you have it! An assembler program that you typed in to
> the calculator, and it works! When I made it, it worked the very
> first time! Of course, doing anything complex in this way is not
> feasible, but typing in ASM is possible!
>
> Remember that this program will run much faster than a TI-BASIC program
> which does the same thing! If you assemble a program on the computer
> and specify the -h parameter to TASM, TASM will generate a hex table
> of the code at the bottom of the listing file. You can then type in
> these hex codes as your program. Of course, you need to type over
> 6,000 characters to enter ZTetris in this way...