Re: A86: Re: Re: Ztetris magic

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: Re: Ztetris magic
From: "David Phillips" <electrum@tfs.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:53:59 -0500
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_textShadow is a 168 byte memory area that "shadows" the text on the
homescreen.  It stores the byte values of the characters, not the actual
video data.  It's just a place where you can store temporary data.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeanne9005@aol.com <Jeanne9005@aol.com>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: A86: Re: Re: Ztetris magic


>
>What exactly does the _textshadow thing do?  Cuz I want to update the
DrugWars
>so that it can have this function....you know the game really does get
>tedious....
>
>Glen Solsberry
>In a message dated 10/20/98 12:02:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>electrum@tfs.net writes:
>
>> The first byte in it's 'Restore' block is the 'flag' that tells it if a
game
>>  is saved.  I think the block is about 50 or 60 bytes, which is enough to
>>  save the data in _textShadow.

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