Re: A86: very very odd

To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: A86: very very odd
From: "Trey Jazz" <joemama@minot.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:04:00 -0600
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

yeah i understood him to mean that you didnt need to any of the interactions
between the rom and the system. afterall port functions are a major part of
the rom

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirk Meyer <_@IBM.net>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, February 16, 1998 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: A86: very very odd


>
>that's true actually, no offense.  all an emulator (example for the TI86)
>must do is emulate the Z80 chip, the memory, the ports and other hardware.
>If you had documentation on the Z80 chip and the TI ports you could easily
>write an emulator (the catch being documentation from TI on the ports
>doesn't exist).
>
>===
>
>Kirk Meyer
>_@ibm.net
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Trey Jazz <joemama@minot.com>
>To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Monday, February 16, 1998 8:17 PM
>Subject: Re: A86: very very odd
>
>
>|
>|thats so false. you need to know how the key routines, screen routines,
>etc.
>|work in order to make an emulator and you cant just put a rom in a
>directory
>|and tell your so-called-emulator there it is work with it and dont ask me
>|what to do.
>|
>|-----Original Message-----
>|From: Trent Lillehaugen <tllilleh@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu>
>|To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
>|Date: Monday, February 16, 1998 9:19 PM
>|Subject: Re: A86: very very odd
>|
>|
>|>
>|>> was that sarcasm or were u being serious? i think its very important
>that
>|>> you know how exactly to work with the rom when you make an emulator so
>|you
>|>> know how to put in keyboard routines in,etc.
>|>
>|>    All an emulator does is emulate the HARDWARE.  You take a rom dump
and
>|use
>|>that, you don't need to know how ANY of the software works.
>|>
>|>--
>|>Trent Lillehaugen
>|>Computer Engineering Major
>|>California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
>|><http://www.calpoly.edu/~tllilleh/a86/a86.html>
>|><mailto:tllilleh@polymail.calpoly.edu>
>|>
>|>
>|
>|
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