Re: A86: Midi to Ti-86

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Subject: Re: A86: Midi to Ti-86
From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:09:52 EDT
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In a message dated 10/23/98 16:36:42 Eastern Daylight Time,
mckbuck@coastalnet.com writes:

> But, it used ASM programs to be able to do that.  When the Basic command of 
> BEEP(1,5) is come across, then an ASM program would be run to interpret that
> and give the beep, then exit.  As long as the tone wasn't too long, then it 
> would work seamlessly in a pong game, b/c ASM is so fast, it would run and
be 
> back to the Basic code before anyone noticed it.

if the beep was a sub-program, then the pong game would pause every time a
sound was made.  you couldn't have anything happening except the sound when it
is called

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