Re: A86: im a little stupid so i need some help

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Subject: Re: A86: im a little stupid so i need some help
From: McBorder@aol.com
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 20:09:12 EDT
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 BlAsTo1414@aol.com writes:

> 
>  what does all this do?  I am guessing that its initializing variable, but 
>  what is _textShadow?
>  
>  
>  > playerx = _textShadow		;1 
>  >  playery = _textShadow+1		;1 
>  >  enemyx  = _textShadow+2		;1 
>  >  enemyy  = _textShadow+3		;1 
>  >  counter = _textShadow+4		;1 
>  >  score   = _textShadow+5		;2
>  
do this just defines some variables
_textShadow is an area where the TI-OS stores what is displayed on the home 
screen
it is 8*21=168 bytes long
asm programs can use it for temp var space

as for my problem with the code before. I fixed it it was a mistake in my key 
reading routine. I think. Oh well

	matt c
	http://junkworld.cjb.net