Re: A86: check keyboard

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Subject: Re: A86: check keyboard
From: Pat Milheron <pmilheron@ti.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:48:04 -0800
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If they were not calls then no bank info is pushed
onto the stack, and when the routine called exectutes a
return, page 0Dh would not be paged in when control returns
to the ASM program.

Later,
Pat

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From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com, on 12/1/98 3:38 PM:

In a message dated 11/30/98 22:57:10 Eastern Standard Time, rabidcow@juno.com
writes:

> probably, but i doubt anyone has every rom version to say.  they look to
>  be the same in 1.2 and 1.3 at least (no guarantee)
>  
>  there's no reason why $4064 shouldn't work, here's the code there:
>   call $01a1
>   ret
>  maybe you've got the wrong page d address?
>  
>  -josh
>  

does anybody have any idea why the rom page d addresses are "call xx \ ret"
when they could just be "jp xx"??

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Re: A86: check keyboard

From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com