RE: A86: Re: Ztetris magic

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Subject: RE: A86: Re: Ztetris magic
From: "Nathan Haines" <stuntman@jps.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:01:21 -0700
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ZTetris does set a 'saved game' byte--I did a bit of hacking to the Usgard
source code once.  I had to get around a bit of optimized source code (heh),
but I put in a pause screen that /warned/ you when you restarted a saved
game.  It was a game-saver (pun intended)!

Nathan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Dux Gregis
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 1998 6:43 PM
> To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: A86: Re: Ztetris magic
>
>
>
> I'm sure it also sets a flag somewhere that tells whether the program was
> exitted using del or not.
>
>
> >
> >What Ztetris does, is, when the del key is pressed, it jumps to an exit
> >routine, which basically copies the program from $d748 back to wherever
> >it was (this works because all data is stored within the program
> >itself.)  If you want more details, the Ztetris source is readily
> >available.
> >
> >--Bill Barksdale
>
>

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A86: Re: Ztetris magic

From: "Dux Gregis" <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>