Re: A86: Re: system variables

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: system variables
From: "David Phillips" <electrum@tfs.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:22:10 -0600
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Wow, really?  I'd like to see the source code for that.  ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Curtis <acurti1@umbc.edu>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, November 23, 1998 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Re: system variables


>
>It's for a ZShell emulator, so you won't have the size limit.  So far I
>have gotten large things to run (ex/ Daedalus), but they crash on exit.
>
>David Phillips wrote:
>>
>> Why would you want to do this?  I don't know for sure, but you pretty
much
>> need to keep all of that data intact.  If you really need a contiguous
32k
>> of ram (including ram page 1, $8000-$ffff), then you should create a new
>> string and copy them there.  That would be easier and smaller than
picking
>> around, because they are all important.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aaron Curtis <acurti1@umbc.edu>
>> To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
>> Date: Monday, November 23, 1998 6:39 PM
>> Subject: A86: system variables
>>
>> >
>> >If I were going to overwrite all the system vars ($c000-$d747), which
>> >ones would I absolutely need to save?  That is, what is the mimimum I
>> >need to do to keep the calc from crashing when I exit the program?
>> >
>> >Aaron Curtis