Re: A86: Linking 85<-->86

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Subject: Re: A86: Linking 85<-->86
From: Jimmy =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rdell?= <yarin@acc.umu.se>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:11:07 +0200
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At 16:32 1998-04-13 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I was transfering some zshell games to my 86 from my friend's 85 (isn't
>emulation great?!) and I had a couple of questions:
>
>1) Why do the newer versions (I am running 1.0) of ASE corrupt zshell
>strings?  Well, not actually corrupt, but ZShell gives ***BAD CHECKSUM***
>error.  I think it has to do with how it stores which group it's in.  If
>that's all, could someone write an oncalc prog to fix the checksum?  (might
>be a nice project for me to learn z80...)

ZShell has a checksum byte. If the program changes itself (all program
having hiscores etc does that), ZShell updates the checksum. Obviously
ASE skips that part.

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A86: Linking 85<-->86

From: David Phillips <electrum@tfs.net>