Re: A86: Customizable Stuff

To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: A86: Customizable Stuff
From: "Trey Jazz" <joemama@minot.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:08:37 -0600
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org


actually im pretty sure pat released the flush menus call, wonder if he had
to look hard (sarcasm definately intended)

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirk Meyer <_@IBM.net>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, February 16, 1998 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Customizable Stuff


>
>Wow. I did not realize that I could have sparked so much controversy.
>Here's how I see it: If you're writing a game you certainly have enough rom
>calls. If you're writing a utility, maybe not, but that's what makes
writing
>stuff like that fun - searching for new calls in the ROM that you need.  a
>lot of us have I'm sure used _flush_all_menus, thanks to somebody who
looked
>for it.  if we had all the ROM calls, then all the programs would be
written
>and what would there be left to write? Take ZShell. It only had about 10
>useful calls, but everyone was happy with them. I don't see why not with
the
>86. I just now found the address for the call for ">frac", previously not
>known. How long did it take? about 10 minutes. Give TI a break!
>===
>Kirk Meyer
>_@ibm.net
>
>