Re: A86: Re: Miscellaneous questions
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Re: A86: Re: Miscellaneous questions
Trey Jazz wrote:
> 1. edit out the disp graph call and compiled it
That won't do anything. You have to check the calc state and also somehow
check if a program is running (they're run from the home screen). It would be
nice if this was built into a shell...
> 2. you can make flags at the end of your programs...all it is is a byte for
> system use that controls up to 8 on/off conditions that are checked by the
> os and it uses them accordingly.
>
> 3. not sure on this one. you can use graph buffer, graph mem, text mem but
> thats all i know
>
> > 1. Would anyone be interested (anyone = Bill Nagel) in modifying
> >GreyBG so that it only displays on the homescreen? Or, if not, can I at
> >least get some info on how it works?
> >
> > 2. The ti-83 has flags that can be accessed off of IY like the
> >86, but it includes some that are for asm programming use (ASM_FLAG1
> >etc). Are there similar ones for the 86?
> >
> > 3. Ram page 1 has the floating point stack and other boring
> >stuff. Is there any part of this page that my asm program *can't*
> >overwrite (it's not using any OP registers or anything?) I need a LOT of
> >contiguous space for a game I'm making. I could back up the entire page
> >into a string, but that would use 16k of memory while the program is
> >running, so I don't want to do that.
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