A86: The WinSCAPE Multitasker
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A86: The WinSCAPE Multitasker
l have read the articles (TIB: Multitasking) and am considering a route to
create a Multitasker with Link capabilities for the TI-86 (and for the 85
without the Link options). It would be primarily in Basic (so that Basic
programs, which there are more of, can be easily incorporated with it), but l
know how to draw lines and text and stuff like that in assembly to make it a
little faster and smaller. l am thinking that, if l make a common program
that these Basic program can use often (like one that just waits for a key to
be pressed) then l could allow for that program to be paused, and another one
to be run from there. There are three things right now that l will need help
with:
Somebody is going to have to help me get my link connection to work (read
"link software with parallel port for the 86") on this list.
l will need to have a routine in assembly which can convert the name of a
particular program (stored as a string) into a program. (ex: if the program's
name is ABC, then l would want this to happen
PROGRAM:execute
:ABC
so that whatever the program's name is will be inside of a program named
execute .
And also, l need for somebody to tell me what is wrong with loading the hex
value 30 into any register b thru e and then calling lLine. My calculator
locks up when l do.
As far as l can tell, it will be easy to convert programs to work with this
Multitasker and be able to move to many programs at one time.
>>TurboSoft
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