Re: A86: Re: Closing menus
[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: A86: Re: Closing menus
Thanks. I checked the equates, the memory is not the same. What is the
difference?
One more question: How do you create local and global variables that are not
stored in the program?
David Phillips
electrum@tfs.net
Trey Jazz wrote:
> use this call to close the menus so you can write to the bottom 1 or 2 lines
>
> _flushallmenus equ 49DCh
>
> the _penRow and _penCol are the same as the _curRow and _curCol but for the
> small font and the _vputs is the same as _puts but small and they can both
> be displayed on the screen at the same time not like on diff screens a la
> QBasic.
>
> I wrote this little tic-tac-toe game to teach myself 86asm and had one
> problem (well, once I had it working...): I only ran it from ASM(, but when
> pasting the name from the prog menu, the bottom two lines were cut off, like
> the menus stayed open. It worked fine when typing tictac from a blank
> screen.
> It uses _puts to output text, so it looks like a TI-BASIC program. Do you
> have to do anything to close menus when using the text-mode? BTW, how does
> that work? Is there a screen-mode change, or just call a separate function
> for the multi-width small font?
Follow-Ups:
References: