Re: A86: more on writing/running an asm prog.


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Re: A86: more on writing/running an asm prog.




At 03:11 PM 9/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>BlAsTo1414@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> ok,
>> if I got a prog on my pc and wrote the asm code there, could I
eventually > copy
>> the code over to my 86 by the same way you would basic code?  like print it
>> out from my pc and just copy it by hand to my 86?
>
>Um, sorta. You'd have to copy the hex codes of the compiled program.
>That would be long and hard and one little mistake could be absolutely
>disastrous. You cannot type in the raw code like in BASIC.
>
>> but if I did that, i dont
>> want to be canstantly copying new code to my 86.  is there a way to run asm
>> progs on my pc, before i copy them to my 86?
>
>Yes, use an emulator, which requires a ROM dump. However, to get a ROM
>dump, you need to dump your own ROM, because using somebody else's is
>illegal. However again, to get a ROM dump, you need the Link. There is
>no other way.

There is another way.  Go to
http://www.dogtech.com/cybop_cgiwin/optic.exe?ROMdownload, you enter a
small asm program to verify you do indeed have a calc, and you can download
a copy of the rom to run on the emulator.
--
Andy Johnson <prjohnson@utahlinx.com>


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